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March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). There are 282 days remaining.
Events
up to 19th century
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.
20th century
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, 76 prisoners begin to break out of Stalag Luft III.
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, which will go on to become one of the most influencial and commercially successful albums of all-time.
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 spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m³) of 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.
21st century
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.
2005 - American Release of Sony Playstation Portable
Births
up to 19th century
1494 - Georg Agricola, scientist ("The Father of Mineralogy") (d. 1555)
1657 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese Confucianist, poet, politician, and writer (d. 1725)
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)
20th century
1901 - Ub Iwerks, cartoonist, (d. 1971)
1902 - Thomas Dewey, politician, (d. 1971)
1911 - Joseph Barbera, cartoonist
1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author and publisher
1923 - Kermit Schafer, humorist, (d. 1979)
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
1940 - Bob Mackie, costume designer
1949 - Nick Lowe, musician
1951 - Tommy Hilfiger, fashion designer
1954 - Robert Carradine, actor (Revenge of the Nerds, Lizzie McGuire)
1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle, actress (The Practice)
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)
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
1975 - Ivo Andric, Croatian writer (b. 1892)
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)
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)
2003 - Hans Hermann Groër, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (1986 - 1995)
Holidays and observances
Ancient Latvia - Kazimiras Diena observed
World Tuberculosis Day
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