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March 24

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March 24 is the 83rd day of the year(84th inleap years) in theGregorian calendar.There are 282 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

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Up to 1900

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1401– Turko-Mongol EmperorTimur sacksDamascus.
1603– KingJames VI of Scotland becomesJames VI and I as the crowns of theKingdom of Scotland, theKingdom of England, and theKingdom of Ireland are joined following the death ofElizabeth I.
1603–Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title ofshogun.
1663– TheProvince of Carolina is granted bycharter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoringCharles II of England,Ireland andScotland to the throne.
1720–Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel (Frederick I of Sweden) is electedKing ofSweden.
1765–American Revolutionary War: TheUnited Kingdom of Great Britain passes theQuartering Act that requires the 13 colonies on theeast coast of North America to house British troops.
1829–Roman Catholics are allowed to serve in the BritishParliament.
1837–African Canadian men are given the right to vote.
1878– TheBritish frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing over 300 people.
1882–Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, responsible for causingtuberculosis.
1896–Alexander Stepanovich Popov makes the firstradio signal transmission in history.
1900–Mayor ofNew York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks new ground for newunderground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would linkManhattan andBrooklyn.

1901– 2000

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1902– TheFlag ofNew Zealand is adopted.
1922–Irish War of Independence: InBelfast, Northern Irishpolicemen break into the home of a Catholic family, shooting all eightmales inside.
1923–Greece becomes aRepublic.
1923– A magnitude 7.3earthquake inChina kills 5,000 people.
1927–Nanjing Incident: Foreignwarships bombard Nanjing,China, in defense of foreign citizens within thecity.
1934– TheUnited States Congress allows thePhilippines to become a self-governingCommonwealth.
1944–World War II: German troops kill 335Italian citizens inRome.
1958–Elvis Presley is drafted into theUS Army.
1962–Pak Chong Hui is chosen by themilitary asPresident of South Korea.
1965–Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Civil Rights march fromSelma toMontgomery, inAlabama, ends.
1972–Northern Ireland is placed under direct rule fromLondon.
1973–Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet inLos Angeles,California.
1976–Jorge Rafael Videla takes power inArgentina, starting a 7-year militarydictatorship in which many people disappear and are tortured and killed.
1980–El Salvadorean archbishopOscar Romero is killed.
1989–Exxon Valdez oil spill: TheExxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground on Prince William Sound inAlaska, causing a massive oil spill. Until theDeepwater Horizon oil spill in2010, it was the worstoil spill in US history.
1993– Thecomet Shoemaker-Levy 9 is discovered.
1998– Acyclone inBangladesh kills over 250 people.
1998– Atornado in Dantan,India, kills 250 people and injures 300.
1998– Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson (aged 11) and Andrew Golden (aged 13), fire onteachers andstudents at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro,Arkansas, killing 5 people and injuring 10.
1999–NATO bomb-attacks on cities inSerbia.
1999– Afire that started in alorry spreads in theMont Blanc tunnel, killing 39 people.

From 2001

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2002–Academy Awards: The Best Actor and Best Actress awards are given toDenzel Washington andHalle Berry, making it the first time that both these awards were won byAfrican American actors at the same time.
2004–Cyclone Catarina forms offBrazil in the South Atlantic.
2005– Anti-government protests inKyrgyzstan lead to the resignation of thePresident,Askar Akayev.
2007– TheMontenegro national football team plays its first match, a 2–1 win over theHungary national football team.
2008–Bhutan's first-ever general election takes place.
2010– South TalpattyIsland, disputed betweenIndia andBangladesh, disappears due to rising sea levels.
2011–2011 Burma earthquake: 68 people are killed as a magnitude 7earthquake strikesBurma.
2014– Leaders fromCanada,France,Germany,Italy,Japan, theUnited Kingdom and theUnited States agree to suspendRussia from theG8, and announce that the plannedG8 summit to be held inSochi is no longer taking place. This is after events inCrimea.
2015–Germanwings Flight 9525, travelling fromBarcelona,Spain toDüsseldorf,Germany, crashes in theFrench Alps, killing all 150 people on board. The co-pilot,Andreas Lubitz, is later found to have crashed the plane deliberately.
2016– Results show that voters inNew Zealand, by a majority, have voted to keep the country's existing flag in areferendum.
2016– Former Bosnian-Serb leaderRadovan Karadzic is found guilty of war crimes by theInternational Criminal Court inThe Hague; he is sentenced to 40 years in jail.

Births

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Up to 1800

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1494–Georg Agricola, German scientist (d.1555)
1657–Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d.1725)
1693–John Harrison, English inventor andclockmaker (d.1776)
1725–Samuel Ashe, 9thGovernor ofNorth Carolina (d.1813)
1725–Thomas Cushing, American member of theContinental Congress (d.1788)
1755–Rufus King, American politician (d.1827)
1756–Francesca Lebrun, Germansoprano andcomposer (d.1791)
1760–Jesse Franklin, 20thGovernor ofNorth Carolina (d.1823)
1762–Marcos Portugal, Portuguese composer (d.1830)
1775–Muthuswami Dikshitar, South Indianpoet and composer (d.1835)
1782–Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d.1836)
1782–William Owsley, 16thGovernor ofKentucky (d.1862)

1801– 1900

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1808–Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d.1836)
1809–Mariano José de Larra, Spanishjournalist andwriter (d.1837)
1809–Joseph Liouville, Frenchmathematician (d.1882)
1820–A. E. Becquerel, Frenchphysicist (d.1891)
1828–Horace Gray, American jurist (d.1902)
1829–Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexicangeneral (d.1862)
1834–William Morris, English writer and designer (d.1896)
1843–Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (d.1871)
1848–Honoré Beaugrand, Canadianpolitician, 18thMayor ofMontreal (d.1906)
1851–Jim Hogg, 21stGovernor ofTexas (d.1906)
1855–Andrew W. Mellon, 49thUnited States Secretary of the Treasury (d.1937)
1863–William Sherman Jennings, 18thGovernor ofFlorida (d.1920)
1869–Emile Fabre, Frenchplaywright (d.1955)
1874–Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (d.1926)
1874–Luigi Einaudi, 2ndPresident ofItaly (d.1961)
1878–Alexey Novikov-Priboy, Russianwriter (d.1944)
1879–Neyzen Tevfik, Turkishpoet,satirist and performer (d.1953)
1884–Peter Debye, Dutchchemist (d.1966)
1884–Eugene Tisserant, Frenchcardinal (d.1972)
1886–Edward Weston, Americanphotographer (d.1958)
1887–Fatty Arbuckle, American actor (d.1933)
1889–Albert Hill, British athlete (d.1969)
1890–Agnes Macphail, Canadian politician (d.1954)
1891–Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Sovietphysicist (d.1951)
1892–Marston Morse, Americanmathematician (d.1977)
1893–Walter Baade, Germanastronomer (d.1960)
1896–Franz Blücher, German politician (d.1959)
1896–George Sisler, Americanbaseball player (d.1973)
1897–Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-bornpsychotherapist (d.1957)

1901– 1950

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1901–Ub Iwerks, American animator (d.1971)
1902–Thomas E. Dewey, American politician, 1948 Presidential candidate (d.1971)
1903–Adolf Butenandt, Germanchemist (d.1995)
1903–Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar (d.1990)
1906–Klavdiya Shulzhenko,Soviet singer (d.1984)
1907–Paul Sauvé, Canadianpolitician, 17thPremier of Quebec (d.1960)
1909–Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde) (d.1934)
1910–Richard Conte, American actor (d.1975)
1911–Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d.2006)
1912–Dorothy Height, American activist (d.2010)
1917–John Kendrew, British molecular biologist (d.1997)
1919–Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher
1921–Vasily Smyslov, Russianchess player (d.2010)
1923–Murray Hamilton, American actor (d.1986)
1924–Norman Fell, American actor (d.1998)
1926–Dario Fo, Italianwriter andplaywright, winner of theNobel Prize in Literature (d.2016)
1926–Desmond Connell, formercardinal–Archbishop of Dublin (d.2017)
1927–John Woodland Hastings, American photo biologist (d.2014)
1927–Martin Walser, German writer
1930–David Dacko,President of theCentral African Republic (d.2003)
1930–Steve McQueen, American actor (d.1980)
1931–Hanno Drechsler, German politician (d.2003)
1933–Shigeo Yaegashi, Japanesefootballer (d.2011)
1935–Peret, Spanishsinger-songwriter andguitarist (d.2014)
1935–Mary Berry, British cookery writer and television presenter
1937–Lynn Borden, Americanactress (d.2015)
1938–Jean-Pierre Coffe, French radio and television presenter, food critic and author (d.2016)
1938–David Irving, British historian
1942–Stephen Yardley, British actor
1944–Vojislav Kostunica, formerPrime Minister ofSerbia
1945–Robert Bakker, Americanpaleontologist
1945–Curtis Hanson, Americanmovie director (d.2016)
1946–Klaus Dinger, German musician (d.2008)
1947–Archie Gemmill, Scottishfootballer
1947–Christine Gregoire, American politician,Governor ofWashington
1947–Alan Sugar, British businessman
1948–Jerzy Kukuczka, Polishmountaineer (d.1989)
1949–Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer
1949–Ranil Wickremesinghe, 13thPrime Minister ofSri Lanka
1949–Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and politician

1951– 1975

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1951–Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
1951–Pat Bradley, Americangolfer
1951–Dougie Thomson, Britishbassist
1953–Anita L. Allen, Americanlawyer,philosopher and academic
1953–Louie Anderson, Americancomedian,actor and game show host
1954–Robert Carradine, American actor
1955–Doug Jarvis, Canadianice hockey player
1955–Pat Price, Canadianice hockey player
1956–Steve Ballmer, Americanentrepreneur,President ofMicrosoft
1957–Mike Weir, Scottish politician
1958–Roland Koch, German politician
1960–Nena, German singer
1960–Kelly LeBrock, Americanmodel andactress
1960–Yasser Seirawan, Syrian-Americanchess player
1960–Grayson Perry, Englishartist
1961–Yanis Varoufakis, Greekeconomist andpolitician
1963–Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainianfootballer (d.2015)
1968–Minarti Timur,Indonesian badminton player
1969–Luis Oliveira, Brazilian-Belgianfootballer
1970–Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
1970–Sharon Corr, Irish musician
1970–Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
1972–Christophe Dugarry, Frenchfootballer
1973–Philippe Boucher, Canadianice hockey player
1973–Steve Corica, Australian footballer
1973–Jacek Bak, Polish footballer
1973–Jim Parsons, American actor
1974–Alyson Hannigan, American actress
1975–Krisdayanti,Indonesian singer and actress
1975–Thomas Johansson, Swedishtennis player

From 1976

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1976–Angellica Bell, Englishtelevision presenter
1976–Peyton Manning, Americanfootball player
1977–Jessica Chastain, American actress
1978–Tomas Ujfalusi, Czech footballer
1979–Graeme Swann, Englishcricketer
1982–Corey Hart, Americanbaseball player
1983–Alexei Eremenko, Russian-Finnish footballer
1983–T. J. Ford, Americanbasketball player
1984–Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Cameroonian-French footballer
1984–Adrian D'Souza, Indianfield hockey player
1985–Haruka Ayase, Japaneseactress
1985–Sayako Hirano, Japanesetable tennis player
1986–Nathalia Dill, Brazilian actress
1987–Ramires, Brazilian footballer
1987–Shakib Al Hasan,Bangladeshi cricketer
1989–Pascal Berger, Swissice hockey player
1990–Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
1990–Libby Clegg, Scottish runner
1998–Isabel Suckling, English singer

Deaths

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Up to 1900

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1284– KingHugh III of Cyprus (b.1235)
1381–Catherine of Vadstena, Swedishsaint (b.1332)
1455–Pope Nicholas V (b.1394)
1563–Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b.1514)
1603– QueenElizabeth I of England (b.1533)
1653–Samuel Scheidt, Germancomposer (b.1587)
1773–Philip Dormer Stanhope, Englishstatesman (b.1694)
1776–John Harrison, English inventor andclockmaker (b.1693)
1844–Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (b.1770)
1860–Ii Naosuke, Japanese politician (b.1815)
1881–Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, Frenchgeologist andmineralogist (b.1817)
1882–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American writer (b.1807)
1887–Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b.1837)
1888–Vsevolod Garshin, Russian writer (b.1855)

1901– 2000

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1905–Jules Verne, French writer (b.1828)
1909–John Millington Synge, Irishplaywright (b.1871)
1915–Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Irishastronomer (b.1848)
1915–Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b.1846)
1916–Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (b.1867)
1926–Phan Chu Trinh,Vietnamese nationalist (b.1872)
1939–Gwyn Nicholls, Welshrugby player (b.1874)
1940–Edouard Branly, Frenchinventor andphysicist (b.1844)
1946–Alexander Alekhine, Russianchess player (b.1892)
1948–Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (b.1885)
1950–James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b.1865)
1953–Mary of Teck, Queen Consort ofGeorge V of the United Kingdom (b.1867)
1962–Auguste Piccard, Swissphysicist and explorer (b.1884)
1971–Arne Jacobsen, Danisharchitect anddesigner (b.1902)
1976–Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b.1887)
1980–Oscar Romero,El Salvadorean archbishop (b.1917)
1984–Sam Jaffe, American actor (b.1891)
1991–Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor General ofAustralia (b.1914)
1993–Albert Allen, Australianpianist,composer,actor and director (b.1905)
1995–Joseph Needham, British academic (b.1900)
1999–Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b.1902)

From 2001

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2002–César Milstein, Argentine scientist (b.1927)
2008–Richard Widmark, American actor (b.1914)
2009–George Kell, Americanbaseball player and sportscaster (b.1922)
2010–Robert Culp, American actor (b.1930)
2012–Jocky Wilson, Scottishdarts player (b.1950)
2014–Paulo Schroeber, Brazilianguitarist (b.1973)
2014–Robert F. Coleman, Americanmathematician (b.1954)
2014–Rodney Wilkes, Trinidadian weightlifter (b.1925)
2015–Yehuda Avner, Israelidiplomat (b.1928)
2015– Deaths in theGermanwings Flight 9525 crash:
- Oleg Bryjak, Kazakh-Germanopera singer (b.1960)
- Maria Radner, Germanopera singer (b.1981)
- Andreas Lubitz, German co-pilot (b.1987)
2015–Moncef Ben Salem,Tunisian politician (b.1953)
2015–Richard Butson, Canadianexplorer andphysician (b.1922)
2016–Johan Cruyff, Dutchfootballer (b.1947)
2016–Garry Shandling, American actor and comedian (b.1949)
2016–Roger Cicero, Germanjazz singer and musician (b.1970)
2016–Maggie Blye, American actress (b.1942)
2016–Marie-Claire Kirkland, Canadian politician and judge (b.1924)
2016–Esther Herlitz, Israelidiplomat andpolitician (b.1921)
2016–Earl Hamner, Jr., American televisionwriter andproducer (b.1923)
2016–Tibor R. Machan, Hungarian-Americanphilosopher andjournalist (b.1939)
2016–Leonard L. Northrup Jr., Americanengineer (b.1918)
2017–Hubert Hammerer, Austrian sports shooter (b.1924)
2017–Leo Peelen, Dutch track cyclist (b.1968)
2017–Jean Rouverol, American actress (b.1916)
2017–Peter Shotton, English musician and businessman (b.1941)
2017–Avo Uvezian, Lebanese-Americanjazz pianist, songwriter andcigar manufacturer (b.1926)
2020–William Dufris, American voice actor and audiobook narrator (b.1958)

Observances

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WorldTuberculosis Day
Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Argentina)

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