Notable Historical Events on March 24th
March 24th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1379 |
End of Gelderse war victory |
1545 |
German Parliament opens in Worms |
1550 |
France & England sign Peace of Boulogne |
1603 |
Scottish 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. |
1629 |
1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia |
1664 |
Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island |
1721 |
Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates his Brandenburg Concertos (to the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt) |
1731 |
Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed. |
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 Pavlovich Romanov becomes Tsar Alexander I of Russia |
1815 |
Handel & Haydn Society of Boston founded |
1828 |
Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized |
1832 |
Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio |
1837 |
Canada gives black citizens the right to vote |
1848 |
State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam |
1855 |
Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas |
1860 |
Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY |
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 |
1880 |
Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT |
1882 |
German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB |
1883 |
1st telephone call between NY & Chicago |
1887 |
Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) |
1890 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG) |
1894 |
37 miners killed at Franklin, WA |
1898 |
1st automobile sold |
1900 |
New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. |
1905 |
A group of Cretans dedicated to Crete's union with Greece led by Eleutherios Venizelos, meet at the village of Therisso and proclaim a union in defiance of the Great Powers |
1906 |
"Census of the British Empire" shows Britain rules 1/5 of the world |
1907 |
The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published. |
1910 |
83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March |
1913 |
Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England |
1913 |
Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC |
1916 |
German submarines torpedo the French Channel packet 'Sussex' which is unarmed |
1920 |
1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC) |
1922 |
Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish |
1924 |
Greece becomes a republic |
1925 |
KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions |
1926 |
The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands |
1927 |
Cuban chess champion Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie |
1927 |
Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Netherland's Wielingen Treaty |
1930 |
1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC) |
1930 |
Planet Pluto named |
1932 |
1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD) |
1933 |
Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency |
1934 |
U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, declaring the Philippines independent after a period of 10 years |
1935 |
Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network |
1936 |
Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0 |
1937 |
Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois) |
1937 |
National Gallery of Art established by Congress |
1941 |
British troops defeat British Somalia |
1941 |
German troops occupy El Agheila Libya |
1941 |
Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox |
1941 |
LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship |
1941 |
Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son" premieres in NYC |
1944 |
76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape) |
1944 |
811 British bombers attack Berlin |
1944 |
In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians |
1945 |
Generals 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 the 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 1st father-and-son team to win |
1950 |
Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship |
1950 |
US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman |
1950 |
US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
1952 |
Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa |
1953 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1955 |
1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service |
1955 |
British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years |
1955 |
Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances |
1958 |
Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) |
1959 |
Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact |
1959 |
The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita. |
1960 |
US appeals court rules novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover" not obscene |
1961 |
NY Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows |
1962 |
24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 71-59 |
1962 |
Benny Paret knocked out 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 |
US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus |
1966 |
Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance |
1967 |
U of Mich holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam |
1968 |
Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational |
1970 |
Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip |
1972 |
Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland |
1973 |
Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champ |
1973 |
Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title |
1973 |
Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile |
1973 |
SF 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams |
1974 |
36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: NC State beats Marquette 76-64 |
1975 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1976 |
Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military |
1978 |
Wings release "With a Little Luck" |
1979 |
"Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances |
1979 |
1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes |
1979 |
Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center |
1979 |
10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn Mich State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts |
1980 |
42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54 |
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 |
Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52) |
1984 |
IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics |
1984 |
Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51) |
1985 |
5th Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards: Bolero wins |
1985 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic |
1985 |
Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah) |
1985 |
5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins |
1986 |
58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa", William Hurt & G Page win |
1986 |
Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling |
1986 |
US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra |
1986 |
NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status" |
1987 |
1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win |
1987 |
WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria |
1988 |
"Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 perfs |
1988 |
Quarterback Dan Fouts retires |
1989 |
Mary Martin in "Peter Pan" 1st seen on TV since 1973 |
1989 |
Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska |
1990 |
Indian troops leave Sri Lanka |
1990 |
Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec) |
1991 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago |
1991 |
11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It wins |
1991 |
Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game |
1991 |
Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
1991 |
Banks reopen in liberated Kuwait |
1991 |
NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3 |
1991 |
Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter |
1992 |
"Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances |
1992 |
Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space |
1992 |
Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens: 5-6 die |
1992 |
1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space |
1993 |
Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel |
1994 |
"Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances |
1994 |
"Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances |
1994 |
F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC, 120 die |
1996 |
16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins |
1996 |
Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual |
1996 |
Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament |
1996 |
MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way |
1997 |
69th Academy Awards - "The English Patient", Tom Cruise & Brenda Blythen win |
1997 |
Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law |
1998 |
Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded. |
1998 |
A 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 die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel. |
2001 |
21st Golden Raspberry Awards: Battlefield Earth wins |
2002 |
74th Academy Awards - "A Beautiful Mind", Denzel Washington & Halle Berry win |
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. |
2007 |
The Australian Labor Party is reinstated after the New South Wales state elections. |
2008 |
Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. |
2010 |
Lee Kun-hee returns to Samsung Electronics chief executive officer (CEO) position after his resignation in April 21, 2008 |
2012 |
African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony |
2013 |
17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan, Pakistan |
2013 |
25 people are killed by gunmen in a coordinated attack in Adamawa State, Nigeria |
2013 |
A series of emergency meetings in Brussels undertaken to resolve Cyprus' financial situation |
2013 |
Scotland defeats Sweden to win the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship |
2014 |
Ukraine withdraws its forces from the Crimea |
2016 |
IS Trains 400 Fighters to Attack Europe in Wave of Bloodshed |
2016 |
MH370 search: Mozambique debris 'almost certainly' from missing plane |
2018 |
French policeman who took place of hostage dies of gunshot wounds |
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