Today In History - March 24

1379 End of Gelderse war victory
1545 The German Parliament opens in Worms
1550 France and England sign Peace of Boulogne
1603 Scottish King James VI becomes King James I of England
1629 The first game law is passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1645 Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS RC emperor Ferdinand III
1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburg Concerts
1734 Netherlands William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover
1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act: it required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
1792 Benjamin West (U.S.) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
1801 Aleksandr P. Romanov becomes the Emperor of Russia
1828 Philadelphia and Columbia Railway is authorized
1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio
1837 Canada gives blacks 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 and Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut
1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
1883 The first telephone call between New York and Chicago
1887 Oscar Straus appointed first Jewish ambassador from U.S. (to Turkey)
1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"
1894 37 miners killed at Franklin, Washington
1898 The first automobile sold
1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world
1910 83 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1913 Netherlands soccer team's first victory over England
1913 Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway New York City
1920 The first U.S. 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 first escalator in Netherlands
1927 Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
1927 Dutch first Chamber condemns Belgian and Netherlands Wielingen Treaty
1930 The first religious services telecast in U.S. (W2XBS New York City)
1930 Planet Pluto named
1932 The first U.S. radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)
1933 Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
1934 U.S. declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945
1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1936 Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins and 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0
1937 Bus blew a tire, goes out of control, killing 18 people in 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 first movie for 20th Century Fox
1941 LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
1941 Richard Wright and Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in New York City
1944 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (The Great Escape)
1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians
1945 Generals Eisenhower, Montgomery and Bradley discuss advance in Germany
1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports and 1300 gliders
1945 Operation Varsity: British, U.S. and Canadian airborne landings East of Rhine
1945 U.S. minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency
1947 John D Rockefeller, Jr. donates New York City East River site to the U.N.
1949 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier and Jane Wyman win
1950 Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship
1950 U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1950 U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
1953 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
1955 The first seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
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
1960 U.S. appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene
1961 New York 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, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
1962 Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys
1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
1965 U.S. Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus
1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
1967 University of Michigan holds first "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam
1968 Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors and 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 San Francisco 49er President Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
1974 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: North Carolina 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 New York City after 116 performances
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 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
1982 U.S. submarine Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1984 Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52)
1984 Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51)
1984 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
1985 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins
1986 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt and G Page win
1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
1986 U.S. and Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
1987 The first Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross
1987 WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," first seen on TV since 1973
1989 Worst U.S. 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 and Ghosts Can't Do It wins
1991 Barcelona Dragons beat NY/New Jersey Knights 19-7 in their first WLAF game
1991 Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1991 In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen]
1991 New York Yankees beat New York Mets, 9-3
1991 Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter
1992 "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City 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
1993 Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel
1994 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 322 performances
1994 "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 53 performances
1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die
1994 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. divorces Emily Black
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 New York City bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
1997 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards
1997 Australian parliament overturns world's first and only euthanasia law

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