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Today
in History ~ March 24
Events
1550 - France & England sign
Peace of Boulogne
1603 - Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
1644 - Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
1765 - Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary
housing to British soldiers
1801 - Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
1832 - Mormon founder/martyr Joseph Smith beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio
1837 - Canada gives blacks the right to vote
1855 - Manhattan, Kansas founded as New Boston, Kansas
1882 - German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
1898 - 1st automobile sold
1906 - "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the
world
1930 - Planet Pluto named
1937 - Bus blows a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois)
1941 - German troops occupy El Agheila, Libya
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 in Ardeantine
Caves Massacre
1945 - Gens Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany
1945 - Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
1945 - Operation Varsity: British, US and Canadian airborne landings east of
Rhine
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
1952 - Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
1955 - 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1955 - British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
1958 - Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
1959 - Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
1960 - US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not
obscene
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
1972 - Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
1980 - ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
1982 - US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1989 - Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
1990 - Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
1996 - US astronaut Shannon Lucid safely transfers to the Russian space station
Mir from the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis for a planned 5 month stay.
1997 - Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law
1998 - A school shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas kills five [H]
1999 - NATO commences air strikes against Yugoslavia with the bombing of Serbian
military positions in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo. [H]
Birthdays Today
1755 - Rufus King, framer of US
Constitution
1834 - John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist
1874 - Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, (magician: the great Houdini, escape artist)
1887 - Fatty (Roscoe) Arbuckle (actor: The Lizzies of Mack Sennett, Mabel and Fatty, Keystone Comedies with Charlie Chaplin)
1897 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-US psycho analysist (character analysis)
1900 - June (Algeria Junius) Clark (musician: trumpet)
1903 - Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939)
1914 - Richard (Nicholas) Conte (actor: I'll Cry Tomorrow, The Godfather, Hotel, A Walk in the Sun, They Came to Cordura)
1920 - Gene Nelson (Berg) (actor, dancer: Lullaby of Broadway, Oklahoma, Tea for Two, The West Point Story, The Atomic Man)
1922 - Dave Appell (singer, musician, songwriter: In the Midnight Hour)
1923 - Edna Jo Hunter, expert on military families & prisoners of war
1924 - Norman Fell (actor: Three's Company, The Graduate, Pork Chop Hill)
1928 - Byron Janis (Yanks) (pianist: the well-known piano performance on Hugo Winterhalter's Rhapsody in Blue recording)
1928 - Vanessa Brown (Smylla Brind) (actress: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Three Husbands, The Fighter, Witch Who Came from the Sea)
1930 - Steve McQueen (actor: Wanted, Dead or Alive, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Papillon, Towering Inferno, The Sand Pebbles, Love with the Proper Stranger, Hell is for Heroes, Bullitt, The Hunter, Le Mans)
1933 - William Smith (actor: Eye of the Tiger, L.A. Vice, Maniac Cop, East L.A. Warriors, Emperor of the Bronx, Angels Die Hard, Platoon Leader)
1937 - Bill Tillman (baseball)
1940 - Bob Mackie (fashion and costume designer)
1943 - Jesus Alou (baseball)
1944 - Denny McLain (baseball: Detroit Tigers pitcher: Baseball Writer's Award [1968], Cy Young Award [1968]; entertainer)
1947 - Peggy Sue (country singer)
1951 - Earl Williams (basketball)
1951 - Pat Bradley (golf champion: U.S. Open [1981], Nabisco Dinah Shore [1986], DuMaurier Classic [1980, 1985, 1986], LPGA [1986])
1954 - Donna Pescow (actress: Policewoman Centerfold, Saturday Night Fever, Glory Years)
Famous deaths
0809 - Harun al-Rashid, caliph
of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44
1603 - Elizabeth I Tudor, ["Virgin Queen"], UK queen (1558-1603), dies
at 69 [H]
1661 - William Leddra, last Quaker hanged in Boston
1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75
1905 - Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77
1953 - Mary, queen of Great Britain/North-Ireland, dies at 85
1965 - White civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo of Detroit is shot and killed on a
road near Selma, Ala.
1976 - Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88
1980 - Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, murdered during mass
1990 - Rene Enriquez, actor (Hill St Blues), dies of pancreatic cancer at 56
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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