March 24
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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.
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[change] Events
- 1401 – Turko-Mongol Emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
- 1603 – King James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England as the crowns of Scotland and England are joined following the death of Elizabeth I of England.
- 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun.
- 1837 – African Canadian men are given the right to vote.
- 1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurodyce sinks, killing over 300 people.
- 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, responsible for causing tuberculosis.
- 1902 – The Flag of New Zealand is adopted.
- 1923 – Greece becomes a Republic.
- 1923 – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake in China kills 5,000 people.
- 1958 – Elvis Presley is drafted into the US Army.
- 1965 – Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Civil Rights march from Selma to Montgomery, in Alabama, ends.
- 1972 – Northern Ireland is placed under direct rule from London.
- 1976 – Jorge Rafael Videla takes power in Argentina, starting a 7-year military dictatorship in which many people disappear and are tortured and killed.
- 1980 – El Salvadorean archbishop Oscar Romero is killed.
- 1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground on Prince William Sound in Alaska, causing a massive oil spill. Until the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, it was the worst oil spill in US history.
- 1998 – A cyclone in Bangladesh kills over 250 people.
- 1999 – NATO bomb-attacks on cities in Serbia.
- 1999 – A fire that started in a lorry spreads in the Mont Blanc tunnel, killing 39 people.
- 2004 – Cyclone Catarina forms off Brazil in the South Atlantic.
- 2005 – Anti-government protests in Kyrgyzstan lead to the resignation of the President, Askar Akayev.
- 2008 – Bhutan's first-ever general election takes place.
- 2010 – South Talpatty Island, disputed between India and Bangladesh, disappears due to rising sea levels.
- 2011 – 2011 Burma earthquake: 68 people are killed as a magnitude 7 earthquake strikes Burma.
[change] Births
- 1490 – Georg Agricola, German scientist (d. 1555)
- 1693 – John Harrison, English inventor and clockmaker (d. 1776)
- 1725 – Thomas Cushing, American member of the Continental Congress (d. 1788)
- 1762 – Marcos Portugal, Portuguese composer (d. 1830)
- 1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, South Indian poet and composer (d. 1835)
- 1808 – Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836)
- 1828 – Horace Gray, American jurist (d. 1902)
- 1834 – William Morris, English writer and designer (d. 1896)
- 1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
- 1874 – Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of Italy (d. 1961)
- 1884 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist (d. 1966)
- 1887 – Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)
- 1889 – Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
- 1891 – Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
- 1893 – Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
- 1901 – Ub Iwerks, American animator (d. 1971)
- 1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, American politician, 1948 Presidential candidate (d. 1971)
- 1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist (d. 1995)
- 1909 – Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde) (d. 1934)
- 1911 – Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
- 1912 – Dorothy Height, American activist (d. 2010)
- 1917 – John Kendrew, British molecular biologist (d. 1997)
- 1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)
- 1926 – Dario Fo, Italian writer
- 1927 – Martin Walser, German writer
- 1930 – David Dacko, President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
- 1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
- 1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German politician (d. 2003)
- 1933 – Shigeo Yaegashi, Japanese footballer (d. 2011)
- 1938 – David Irving, British historian
- 1944 – Vojislav Kostunica, former Prime Minister of Serbia
- 1947 – Christine Gregoire, American politician, Governor of Washington
- 1947 – Alan Sugar, British businessman
- 1949 – Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer
- 1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
- 1954 – Robert Carradine, American actor
- 1958 – Roland Koch, German politician
- 1960 – Nena, German singer
- 1969 – Luis Oliveira, Brazilian-Belgian footballer
- 1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
- 1970 – Sharon Corr, Irish musician
- 1973 – Steve Corica, Australian footballer
- 1973 – Jacek Bak, Polish footballer
- 1974 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
- 1975 – Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
- 1976 – Angellica Bell, English television presenter
- 1978 – Tomas Ujfalusi, Czech footballer
- 1979 – Graeme Swann, English cricketer
- 1982 – Corey Hart, American baseball player
- 1983 – Alexei Eremenko, Russian-Finnish footballer
- 1984 – Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Cameroonian-French footballer
- 1987 – Ramires, Brazilian footballer
- 1990 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
[change] Deaths
- 1284 – King Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)
- 1455 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1394)
- 1563 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
- 1603 – Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
- 1773 – Philip Dormer Stanhope], English statesman (b. 1694)
- 1776 – John Harrison, English inventor and clockmaker (b. 1693)
- 1844 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (b. 1770)
- 1860 – Ii Naosuke, Japanese politician (b. 1815)
- 1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American writer (b. 1807)
- 1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
- 1905 – Jules Verne, French writer (b. 1828)
- 1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
- 1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
- 1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (b. 1867)
- 1939 – Gwyn Nicholls, Welsh rugby player (b. 1874)
- 1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
- 1953 – Mary of Teck, Queen Consort of George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
- 1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
- 1976 – Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)
- 1980 – Oscar Romero, El Salvadorean archbishop (b. 1917)
- 1991 – Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor General of Australia (b. 1914)
- 1995 – Joseph Needham, British academic (b. 1900)
- 1999 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
- 2002 – Cesar Milstein, Argentine scientist (b. 1927)
- 2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
- 2010 – Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)
[change] Observances
- World Tuberculosis Day
- Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Argentina)
