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What happened on March 24 Please support our Sponsors - They help us keep this site Alive! 1379 End of Gelderse war victory 1401 Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1545 German Parliament opens in Worms 1550 France & England sign Peace of Boulogne 1603 After forty-four years of rule, Queen Elizabeth I of England dies and King James VI of Scotland ascends to the throne, uniting England, Scotland, and Ireland under a single British monarch. 1603 James VI of Scotland also becomes James I King of England. 1645 Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS Roman Catholic emperor Ferdinand III 1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island 1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts 1731 An Act to naturalize Hieronimus De Salis Esquire, passed. 1734 Netherlands' William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover 1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers 1792 Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London 1801 Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia 1828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized 1832 In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.. 1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio 1837 Canada gives blacks the right to vote 1855 Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston KS 1860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York 1863 Bushrangers Charles Robardi and Auguste Rivet stand trial at Goulburn, NSW, for murdering mail carrier Daniel Crotty. ( 1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms 1877 University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat 1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost 1878 HMS Eurydice, a training ship, sank in a freak squall off Ventnor, Isle of Wight with the loss of 330 lives. Only 2 were saved. 1878 The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300. 1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut 1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB 1882 Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis). 1887 Oscar Straus appointed first Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) 1894 37 miners killed at Franklin WA 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. 1898 The first recoreded sale of an automobile 1900 New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. 1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world - how things will change! 1910 83ºF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March 1913 Netherlands soccer team's first victory over England 1920 US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) 1923 Greece becomes a republic. 1923 In China a 7.3 earthquake resulted in 5,000 dead. One of the world's deadliest earthquakes. 1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens first escalator in Netherlands 1927 Cuban chess champion, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie 1927 Dutch first Chamber condemns Belgian & Netherlands' Wielingen Treaty 1929 Visitor posting - Mary Katherine Hudson was born. 1930 Planet Pluto named 1934 U.S. Congress passes Tydings-McDuffie Act. 1934 US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945 1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network 1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem IL) 1941 British troops defeat British Somalia 1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya 1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his first movie for 20th Century Fox 1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) later made into a movie 1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin 1944 German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in the Ardeatine Massacre in Rome. 1944 In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III. 1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians 1945 150 bombers fly from Italy to bomb Berlin. 1945 Cpl. Frederick G. Topham (1st Cdn. Parachute Batt.) wins the Victoria Cross at Diersfordt Wood, Germany 1945 General Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany 1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders 1945 Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine 1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa 1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the Presidency 1947 John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN 1949 21st Academy Awards: "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win 1949 Walter & John Huston become first father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor & director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre") 1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa 1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years 1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway for 694 performances 1955 The first seagoing oil drill rig placed in service 1957 Visitor posting - Terri Patterson-Leonard was born - USA 1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) 1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact 1962 Benny Paret, KO'd in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later 1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys 1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued 1965 NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing. 1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus 1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance 1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piët ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip 1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland 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 Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile 1974 Uganda crushes coup attempt against President Idi Amin following machine-gun and mortar battle with rebels. 1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 to retain the heavyweight boxing title 1976 Argentina's military forces depose president Isabel Pern and start the National Reorganization Process. 1976 Argentine President Isabel Perón deposed by country's military 1976 British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery dies. He defeated the Germans at El Alamein 1977 Former Australian cabinet minister Don Chipp resigns from the Liberal Party; later he establishes the Australian Democrats 1978 Wings release "With a Little Luck" 1979 Columbia flown on aircraft carrier lands at Kennedy Space Center 1979 First appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes 1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline" 1980 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks 1981 "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC 1981 Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy 1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba 1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia 1984 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics 1984 Number one hit on UK music charts - Lionel Richie - Hello 1985 Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins) 1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah) 1986 Visitor posting - Jessica Lynn H. is born in detroit MI - USA 1986 58th Academy Awards: "Out of Africa", William Hurt & Geraldine Page win 1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status" 1986 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling 1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra 1987 First Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win 1987 Western Australia win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria 1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires 1988 Visitor posting - Jasmin Alexandra Taylor was born in Evansville, IN - USA 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m) of petroleum after running aground. 1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan", first time seen on TV since 1973 1989 The worst oil spill to ever occur in U.S. territory begins after the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by the Exxon Corporation, runs aground on a reef in Prince William Sound in southern Alaska 1990 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka 1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It win 1991 In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen 1991 Wrestlemania VII in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter for championship 1992 First Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space 1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens; 5-6 die 1993 Ezer Weizman elected President of Israel 1993 Visitor posting - Jessica Lynn Is born 1993 Visitor posting - Susej Maria Taveras Urena was born. - USA 1993 Visitor posting - Kyle Morrison was born - USA 1994 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances 1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die 1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black 1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins 1996 Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual 1996 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way 1996 U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid safely transfers to the Russian space station Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned five-month stay. 1997 69th Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Tom Cruise & Frances McDormand win 1997 Australian parliament overturns world's first & only euthanasia law 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. 1998 Visitor posting - carly was born! - USA 1998 Tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others. 1999 Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. 1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people died when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in Mont Blanc Tunnel. 2000 The S&P 500 reaches an all-time high of 1527.46. 2000 Two 18-year-old boys are arrested in Britain on charges of breaking into e-commerce Internet sites in five countries, stealing information on more than 26,000 credit card accounts and posting some of it on the Web 2003 The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq. 2006 Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police. 2006 Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate. 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