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Year | Name |
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2015 | Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board. |
2008 | Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. |
2003 | The Arab League votes 211 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq. |
1999 | Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. |
1999 | A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people. |
1998 | Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded. |
1998 | A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others. |
1998 | First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany |
1993 | Discovery of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9. |
1989 | In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground. |
1986 | The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites. |
1980 | El Salvadorian Archbishop ÿscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. |
1977 | Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress. |
1976 | In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. |
1973 | Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles. |
1965 | Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television. |
1961 | Quebec Board of the French Language is established. |
1958 | Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army. |
1946 | A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership. |
1944 | Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome. |
1944 | World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III. |
1934 | United States Congress passes the TydingsMcDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth. |
1933 | The Enabling Act passed in both the Reichstag and Reichsrat. |
1927 | Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city. |
1921 | The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event. |
1907 | The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published. |
1900 | Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. |
1896 | A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history. |
1885 | Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the TonkinGuangxi border. |
1882 | Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. |
1878 | The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300. |
1869 | The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising. |
1860 | Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke. |
1854 | Slavery is abolished in Venezuela. |
1837 | Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote. |
1832 | In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith. |
1829 | The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament. |
1794 | In Kraków, Tadeusz Koſciuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces. |
1765 | Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops. |
1731 | Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed. |
1721 | Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 10461051. |
1720 | Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February |
1663 | The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne. |
1603 | James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I. |
1603 | Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan. |
1401 | Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. |
1387 | English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate. |
Here is a random list who born on March 24. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1983 | Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer |
1952 | Greg McCrary, American football player (d. 2013) |
1974 | Alyson Hannigan, American actress |
1893 | George Sisler, American baseball player and scout (d. 1973) |
1910 | Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1975) |
1829 | Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862) |
1981 | Dirk Hayhurst, American baseball player |
1922 | Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer (d. 2005) |
1874 | Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1961) |
1977 | Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on March 24. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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2009 | George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922) |
2013 | Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (b. 1974) |
2010 | Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936) |
1888 | Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855) |
1399 | Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (b.c. 1320) |
1381 | Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1332) |
2003 | Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919) |
1984 | Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891) |
2018 | Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (b. 1924) |
2015 | Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (b. 1928) |