March 24
March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years ). There are 282 days remaining.
Events
1603 - James I becomes King of England .
1765 - American Revolutionary War : The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 American colonies to house British troops.
1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr. .
1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed.
1878 - The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.
1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis ).
1898 - Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile when he buys a Winton automobile that was advertised in Scientific American .
1900 - New York City Mayor Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn .
1944 - Tragedy in the Polish village Markowa .
1944 - In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape Stalag Luft III .
1965 - NASA spacecraft Ranger 9 , equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television , brought images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing .
1972 - The United Kingdom imposes "Direct Rule " over Northern Ireland .
1973 - Kenyan track runner Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles , sanctioned by the International Track Association .
1973 - Rock band Pink Floyd releases Dark Side of the Moon , 1976 - Argentina 's military forces depose president Isabel Perón .
1980 - Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador .
1989 - Exxon Valdez oil spill : In Alaska 's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez oil after running aground.
1998 - Jonesboro massacre : In Jonesboro, Arkansas , two boys (aged 11 and 13 years) fire upon students at Westside Middle School. Four students and one teacher are killed and 10 injured.
1999 - Kosovo War : NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia . This marks the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
2001 - Apple Computer releases Mac OS X version 10.0.
2003 - The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of US and British soldiers from Iraq.
2005 - Lord's Memorial of Jehovah's Witnesses - meeting for celebrating Jesus ' death after sunset. (Based on the Jewdian calender. Date was Nisan 14. Not always on same Gregorian calendar date.)
Births
1494 - Georg Agricola , scientist ("The Father of Mineralogy") (d. 1555 )
1607 - Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter , Dutch Admiral (d. 1667 )
1657 - Arai Hakuseki , Japanese Confucianist, poet, politician, and writer (d. 1725 )
1693 - John Harrison , British inventor of the world's first successful maritime clock (d. 1776 )
1834 - William Morris , writer, designer, socialist (d. 1896 )
1834 - John Wesley Powell , explorer, environmentalist, (d. 1902 )
1835 - Jožef Stefan , Slovene physicist , mathematician and poet , (d. 1893 )
1855 - Andrew Mellon , financier, (d. 1937 )
1855 - Olive Schreiner , writer (d. 1920 )
1874 - Harry Houdini , magician, (d. 1926 )
1886 - Edward Weston , photographer (d. 1958 )
1887 - Fatty Arbuckle , actor, (d. 1933 )
1889 - Albert Hill , British athlete (d. 1969 )
1891 - John Knittel , dramatist, (d. 1970 )
1893 - Walter Baade , astronomer (d. 1960 )
1897 - Wilhelm Reich , psychotherapist , (d. 1957 )
1901 - Ub Iwerks , cartoonist , (d. 1971 )
1902 - Thomas Dewey , politician, (d. 1971 )
1910 - Richard Conte , American actor (d. 1975 )
1911 - Joseph Barbera , cartoonist
1915 - Gorgeous George , American professional wrestler (d. 1963 )
1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti , author and publisher
1923 - Kermit Schafer , humorist, (d. 1979 )
1923 - Murray Hamilton , American actor (d. 1986 )
1924 - Norman Fell , actor (d. 1998 )
1926 - Dario Fo , author, 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature
1927 - Martin Walser , author
1928 - Byron Janis , American pianist
1930 - Steve McQueen , film director and producer, (d. 1980 )
1935 - Peter Bichsel , writer
1936 - David Suzuki , environmentalist
1937 - Billy Stewart , American singer (d. 1970 )
1938 - David Irving , British historian
1940 - Bob Mackie , costume designer
1944 - R. Lee Ermey , American actor
1945 - Curtis Hanson , American film director
1945 - Robert T. Bakker , American paleontologist
1949 - Nick Lowe , musician
1951 - Tommy Hilfiger , fashion designer
1953 - Louie Anderson , American comedian
1954 - Robert Carradine , actor
1954 - Donna Pescow , American actress
1960 - Rick Ruhl , MSN's first online manager, 1994-1999
1962 - Star Jones Reynolds , American television personality
1964 - Annabella Sciorra , American actress
1965 - The Undertaker , professional wrestler
1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle , actress
1970 - Sharon Corr , musician ("The Corrs ")
1974 - Alyson Hannigan , actress
1976 - Peyton Manning , NFL star
1990 - Keisha Castle-Hughes , actress
Deaths
809 - Harun al-Rashid , Abbasid caliph (b. 763 )
1455 - Pope Nicholas V , the first Renaissance pope (b. 1397 )
1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533 )
1869 - Antoine-Henri Jomini , General (b. 1779 )
1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , author (b. 1807 )
1905 - Jules Verne , author (b. 1828 )
1909 - John Millington Synge , playwright (b. 1871 )
1944 - Orde Wingate , British soldier (b. 1903 )
1946 - Alexander Alekhine , chess champion (b. 1892 )
1950 - James Rudolph Garfield , U.S. politician (b. 1865 )
1953 - Mary of Teck , wife of King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867 )
1962 - Jean Goldkette , jazz musician (b. 1899 )
1962 - Auguste Piccard , physicist and explorer (b. 1884 )
1972 - Cristobal Balenciaga , couturier
1976 - Bernard Montgomery , British Field Marshal (b. 1887 )
1980 - Óscar Romero , Archbishop of El Salvador (b. 1917 )
1984 - Sam Jaffe , actor (b. 1891 )
1990 - An Wang , computer pioneer (b. 1920 )
1990 - Ray Goulding , American comedian
1993 - John Hersey , author (b. 1914 )
1999 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink , German Women's leader during Germany's Third Reich . (b. 1902 )
1999 - Birdie Tebbetts , Major League Baseball catcher and manager (b. 1912 )
1999 - NATO Bombings began against Yugoslav Army and ParaMilitary groups which killed and massacred Albanian People in Kosova
2003 - Hans Hermann Groër , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (1986 - 1995)
Holidays and observances
External links
March 23 - March 25 - February 24 - April 24 -- listing of all days
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