Today in History - History - March 24th

19871st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win

200274th Academy Awards - "A Beautiful Mind", Denzel Washington & Halle Berry win

1991Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter

1603Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns.

1721Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates his Brandenburg Concertos (to the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt)

1947John D. Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN

1992"Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances

2006Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate.

1832Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio

1955Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances

1912Dorothy Height, Richmond, Virginia, American civil rights and women's rights activist

1874Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist

1855Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, banker (Mellon Bank), US Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32) and philanthropist

1976Peyton Manning, New Orleans Louisiana, American football player

1951Pat Bradley, Westford Massachusetts, LPGA golfer (1981 US Women's Open)

1947Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad)

1909Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)

1902Thomas E. Dewey, Owosso Michigan, Governor and Republican presidential candidate 1944, 1948

1984"Knight Rider" actor David Hasselhoff (32) weds "One Life to Live" actress Catherine Hickland (28)

2013Motorcycle mogul Jesse James (43) weds drag racer Alexis DeJoria in Malibu, California

1896Writer "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad (39) marries Englishwoman Jessie George (23)

1950Actress Ingrid Bergman (34) weds Roberto Rossellini

1603Elizabeth I Tudor, [Virgin Queen], of England and Ireland (1558-1603), dies at 69

1976Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Alamein, British Field Marshal, Alton, Hampshire