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Events on the 24th of March in history

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24 Mar 1379 End of Gelderse war victory
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24 Mar 1401 Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
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24 Mar 1545 German Parliament opens in Worms
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24 Mar 1550 France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
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24 Mar 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
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24 Mar 1603 James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
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24 Mar 1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
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24 Mar 1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
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24 Mar 1645 Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS Roman Catholic emperor Ferdinand III
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24 Mar 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.
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24 Mar 1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
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24 Mar 1707 The Acts of Union 1707 are signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms and parliaments of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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24 Mar 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. She had been wanting to rule jointly with her husband in the same manner as William and Mary in the British Isles, but after the Riksdag of the Estates said no to this, she chose to abdicate the throne in his favour instead.
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24 Mar 1721 Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
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24 Mar 1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts
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24 Mar 1731 Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
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24 Mar 1734 Netherlands' William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover
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24 Mar 1765 American Revolution: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
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24 Mar 1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
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24 Mar 1792 Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
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24 Mar 1801 Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
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24 Mar 1828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
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24 Mar 1829 Catholic emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
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24 Mar 1832 In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
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24 Mar 1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
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24 Mar 1837 Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
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24 Mar 1837 Canada gives blacks the right to vote
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24 Mar 1848 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
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24 Mar 1854 Slavery is abolished in Venezuela.
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24 Mar 1855 Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston, Kansas
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24 Mar 1860 Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.
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24 Mar 1860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco, 89 days out of New York
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24 Mar 1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
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24 Mar 1869 The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
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24 Mar 1877 University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
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24 Mar 1878 The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
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24 Mar 1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
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24 Mar 1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut
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24 Mar 1882 Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
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24 Mar 1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
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24 Mar 1883 1st telephone call between New York & Chicago
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24 Mar 1885 Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.
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24 Mar 1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
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24 Mar 1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG)
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24 Mar 1894 37 miners killed at Franklin, Washington
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24 Mar 1896 A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
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24 Mar 1898 1st automobile sold
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24 Mar 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.
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24 Mar 1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1 / 5 of the world
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24 Mar 1907 The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
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24 Mar 1910 83
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24 Mar 1913 Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway, New York City
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24 Mar 1913 Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England
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24 Mar 1920 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
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24 Mar 1922 Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family and shoot eight males inside, killing six.
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24 Mar 1922 Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish
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24 Mar 1924 Greece becomes a republic
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24 Mar 1925 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
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24 Mar 1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in the Netherlands
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24 Mar 1927 Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
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24 Mar 1927 Cuban chess champion, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
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24 Mar 1927 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Netherlands' Wielingen Treaty
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24 Mar 1930 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS, New York NY)
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24 Mar 1930 Planet Pluto named
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24 Mar 1930 R
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24 Mar 1932 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker, WABC from Maryland)
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24 Mar 1933 Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
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24 Mar 1934 United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
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24 Mar 1934 US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945
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24 Mar 1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
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24 Mar 1936 Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 minutes and 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0
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24 Mar 1936 Red Wings beat Montr
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24 Mar 1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois)
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24 Mar 1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress
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24 Mar 1941 British troops defeat British Somalia
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24 Mar 1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya
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24 Mar 1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
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24 Mar 1941 Long Island University beats Ohio University 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
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24 Mar 1941 Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son" premieres in New York NY
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24 Mar 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.
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24 Mar 1944 Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
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24 Mar 1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)
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24 Mar 1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin
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24 Mar 1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
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24 Mar 1945 General Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany
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24 Mar 1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
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24 Mar 1945 Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine
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24 Mar 1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
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24 Mar 1946 The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
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24 Mar 1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the Presidency
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24 Mar 1947 John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN
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24 Mar 1949 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet, " Laurence Olivier and Jane Wyman win
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24 Mar 1949 Walter and John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win
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24 Mar 1949 Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win Oscars (actor & director of "Treasure of Sierra Madre")
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24 Mar 1950 Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship
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24 Mar 1950 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
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24 Mar 1950 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Richard Button
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24 Mar 1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
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24 Mar 1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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24 Mar 1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances
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24 Mar 1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
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24 Mar 1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
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24 Mar 1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway for 694 performances
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24 Mar 1958 Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
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24 Mar 1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
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24 Mar 1959 The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keïta.
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24 Mar 1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
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24 Mar 1960 US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover", not obscene
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24 Mar 1961 New York Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows
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24 Mar 1962 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys
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24 Mar 1962 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cincinnati beats Ohio State 71-59
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24 Mar 1962 Benny Paret, KO'd in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
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24 Mar 1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
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24 Mar 1965 NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
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24 Mar 1965 US Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of crater Alphonsus
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24 Mar 1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
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24 Mar 1967 University of Michigan holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam
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24 Mar 1968 Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational
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24 Mar 1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Pi
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24 Mar 1972 The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
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24 Mar 1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
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24 Mar 1973 Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.
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24 Mar 1973 Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champion
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24 Mar 1973 Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title
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24 Mar 1973 Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile
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24 Mar 1973 San Francisco 49er president Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
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24 Mar 1974 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: NC State beats Marquette 76-64
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24 Mar 1974 36th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64; this ends UCLA's 7 year reign as NCAA basketball champions
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24 Mar 1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 to retain the heavyweight boxing title
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24 Mar 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. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
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24 Mar 1976 Argentine President Isabel Per
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24 Mar 1978 Wings release "With a Little Luck"
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24 Mar 1978 Wings release "With a Little Luck"
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24 Mar 1979 "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
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24 Mar 1979 10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by University of Pennsylvania; Michigan State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 points
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24 Mar 1979 1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes
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24 Mar 1979 Columbia flown on aircraft carrier lands at Kennedy Space Center
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24 Mar 1980 Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
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24 Mar 1980 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54
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24 Mar 1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline with Ted Koppel"
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24 Mar 1980 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
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24 Mar 1981 "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC
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24 Mar 1981 Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
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24 Mar 1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
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24 Mar 1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
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24 Mar 1984 Andrea Sch
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24 Mar 1984 Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14: 1.51)
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24 Mar 1984 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
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24 Mar 1985 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins
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24 Mar 1985 Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)
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24 Mar 1985 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
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24 Mar 1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Australia, Sharjah)
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24 Mar 1986 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa, " William Hurt and G Page win
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24 Mar 1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
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24 Mar 1986 The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
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24 Mar 1986 58th Academy Awards: "Out of Africa", William Hurt & Geraldine Page win
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24 Mar 1986 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
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24 Mar 1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
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24 Mar 1987 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win
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24 Mar 1987 Western Australia win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
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24 Mar 1988 "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 performances
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24 Mar 1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
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24 Mar 1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan, " 1st seen on TV since 1973
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24 Mar 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.
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24 Mar 1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan", 1st time seen on TV since 1973
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24 Mar 1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 million gallons off Alaska
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24 Mar 1990 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
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24 Mar 1990 Tom Hunter swims world record 50 meter freestyle (21.81 seconds)
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24 Mar 1991 New York Yankees beat the New York Mets, 9-3
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24 Mar 1991 Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter
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24 Mar 1991 "Les Miserables" opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
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24 Mar 1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It win
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24 Mar 1991 Barcelona Dragons beat New York/New Jersey Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
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24 Mar 1991 Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
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24 Mar 1991 In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen
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24 Mar 1991 Wrestlemania VII in Los Angeles, Hulk Hogan pins Sergeant Slaughter for championship
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24 Mar 1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
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24 Mar 1992 "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances
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24 Mar 1992 1st Belgian in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
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24 Mar 1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens; 5-6 die
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24 Mar 1993 Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.
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24 Mar 1993 Ezer Weizman elected President of Israel
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24 Mar 1994 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances
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24 Mar 1994 "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances
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24 Mar 1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die
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24 Mar 1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black
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24 Mar 1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: Showgirls wins
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24 Mar 1996 Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual
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24 Mar 1996 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
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24 Mar 1996 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
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24 Mar 1997 69th Academy Awards - "English Patient, " T Cruise and Brenda Blythen win
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24 Mar 1997 69th Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Tom Cruise & Frances McDormand win
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24 Mar 1997 Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law
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24 Mar 1998 First Computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
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24 Mar 1998 A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
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24 Mar 1998 Jonesboro massacre: 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.
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24 Mar 1999 Kosovo War: NATO commences aerial bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
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24 Mar 1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 39 people.
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24 Mar 2000 S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
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24 Mar 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.
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24 Mar 2008 Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
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24 Mar 2014 A train overruns the buffers at Chicago O'Hare Airport station, injuring 32 people.
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24 Mar 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
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