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24 Mar 1629
1st game law passed in American colonies by Virginia
24 Mar 1731
Jerome (aka Hieronimus) de Salis naturalised as British by Act of Parliamentary.
24 Mar 1765
Britain enacts Quartering Act required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
24 Mar 1792
Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
24 Mar 1801
Aleksandr Pavlovich Romanov becomes Tsar Alexander I of Russia
24 Mar 1828
Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
24 Mar 1837
Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote
24 Mar 1860
Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in San Francisco 89 days out of New York
24 Mar 1876
38th Grand National Joe Cannon aboard 251 chance Regal wins by a neck from Congress
24 Mar 1877
University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
24 Mar 1880
Tobacco Growers Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT
24 Mar 1882
44th Grand National Lord Manners aboard 101 shot Seaman wins in heavy snow and freezing conditions
24 Mar 1887
Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
24 Mar 1890
Start of Sherlock Holmes The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge (BG)
24 Mar 1893
55th Grand National Bill Dollery aboard 92 favourite Cloister wins by a massive 40 lengths from Aesop owner Charles Duff fields 2 more winners 1912-13
24 Mar 1899
61st Grand National George Williamson aboard 1897 winner Manifesto wins by 4 lengths from Ford Of Fyne
24 Mar 1900
New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground Rapid Transit Railroad that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
24 Mar 1905
A group of Cretans dedicated to Cretes union with Greece led by Eleutherios Venizelos meet at the village of Therisso and proclaim a union in defiance of the Great Powers
24 Mar 1906
Census of the British Empire shows Great Britain rules 15th of the world
24 Mar 1907
The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published
24 Mar 1910
83F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
24 Mar 1911
73rd Grand National legendary jockey Jack Anthony wins his first of 3 GNs aboard 201 Glenside in torrential rain
24 Mar 1913
Netherlands soccer teams 1st victory over England
24 Mar 1913
Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway New York City
24 Mar 1916
German submarines torpedo the unarmed French cross-channel packet Sussex
24 Mar 1920
1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
24 Mar 1922
81st Grand National Lewis Rees aboard 1009 chance Music Hall wins only 5 out of 32 starters finish
24 Mar 1924
1st performance of Jean Sibelius 7th Symphony in C at the Konsertfreningenin in Stockholm
24 Mar 1925
KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
24 Mar 1926
The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
24 Mar 1927
Cuban chess champion Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
24 Mar 1927
Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Netherlands Wielingen Treaty
24 Mar 1930
1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
24 Mar 1932
1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)
24 Mar 1933
Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
24 Mar 1933
92nd Grand National Dudley Williams aboard 251 chance Kellsboro Jack wins by 3 lengths and a neck from Really True
24 Mar 1934
U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act declaring the Philippines independent after a period of 10 years
24 Mar 1935
Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
24 Mar 1936
Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons 1-0 in 16 minutes 30 seconds of 6th period of OT record Stanley Cup playoff game lasts 9 periods (176 minutes)
24 Mar 1937
Bus blew a tire going out of control killing 18 (Salem Illinois)
24 Mar 1937
National Gallery of Art established by Congress
24 Mar 1939
98th Grand National Irish jockey Tim Hyde wins riding 1008 shot Workman
24 Mar 1941
LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
24 Mar 1941
Richard Wright & Paul Greens Native Son premieres in NYC
24 Mar 1942
US government begins moving native-born citizens with Japanese ancestry into detention centres under Executive Order 9066 with intention of preventing home-grown espionage
24 Mar 1944
76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape)
24 Mar 1944
In occupied Rome Nazis execute more than 300 civilians
24 Mar 1945
Operation Varsity In the largest one-day airborne operation of all time British US & Canadian paratroopers land east of the Rhine in Northern Germany
24 Mar 1945
US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto South coast of Okinawa
24 Mar 1947
Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency
24 Mar 1949
21st Academy Awards Hamlet Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win awards
24 Mar 1949
SS police chief in the Netherlands Hanns Albin Rauters request for a pardon denied executed by firing squad
24 Mar 1952
Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa
24 Mar 1955
British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
24 Mar 1956
Wales beats France 5-3 at the National Stadium Cardiff to clinch their 13th Five Nations Rugby Championship
24 Mar 1956
110th Grand National race best remembered for Devon Lochs inexplicable fall on final straight just 40 yards from a certain victory Dave Dick wins aboard E.S.B.
24 Mar 1959
The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Lopold Sdar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
24 Mar 1960
US appeals court rules novel Lady Chatterlys Lover not obscene
24 Mar 1961
NY Senate approves 55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows
24 Mar 1962
24th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Cincinnati beats Ohio State 71-59
24 Mar 1962
Welterweight boxing title fight between Benny Paret and Emile Griffith Paret knocked out 13th round dies 10 days later. First use of television slow motion replay.
24 Mar 1965
US Ranger 9 strikes Moon 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus
24 Mar 1966
Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
24 Mar 1967
University of Michigan holds 1st Teach-in after bombing of North Vietnam
24 Mar 1969
Francis Turner is sworn in as the director of the Federal Highway Administration
24 Mar 1970
Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends Sjors & Sjimmie strip
24 Mar 1971
Serge Gainsbourg releases his concept album Histoire de Melody Nelson
24 Mar 1972
Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
24 Mar 1973
Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City to become NWA champ
24 Mar 1973
Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile
24 Mar 1973
San Francisco 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
24 Mar 1982
US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
24 Mar 1984
Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (734.52)
24 Mar 1984
IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
24 Mar 1984
Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (1421.51)
24 Mar 1985
5th Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards Bolero wins
24 Mar 1974
36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64
24 Mar 1976
Argentine President Isabel Martnez de Pern is deposed in a military coup
24 Mar 1979
Ballroom closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
24 Mar 1979
1st appearance as Australian cricket captain for Kim Hughes
24 Mar 1979
Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center
24 Mar 1980
42nd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Louisville beats UCLA 59-54
24 Mar 1980
Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
24 Mar 1981
Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
24 Mar 1985
Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust Sharjah)
24 Mar 1986
Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
24 Mar 1986
NASA publishes Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status
24 Mar 1987
WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
24 Mar 1988
Gospel at Colonus opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 performances
24 Mar 1989
Worst US oil spill Exxons Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
24 Mar 1990
Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
24 Mar 1991
11th Golden Raspberry Awards Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Cant Do It wins
24 Mar 1991
Barcelona Dragons beat NYNJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
24 Mar 1991
Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
24 Mar 1992
Jakes Women opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances
24 Mar 1992
Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
24 Mar 1992
Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens 5-6 die
24 Mar 1992
1st Belgium in the space Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
24 Mar 1994
Carousel opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances
24 Mar 1994
Song of Jacob Zulu opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances
24 Mar 1994
F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC 120 die
24 Mar 1996
16th Golden Raspberry Awards Showgirls wins
24 Mar 1997
Australian parliament overturns worlds 1st & only euthanasia law
24 Mar 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.
24 Mar 1998
A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
24 Mar 1999
Kosovo War NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
24 Mar 1999
Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
24 Mar 2001
21st Golden Raspberry Awards Battlefield Earth wins
24 Mar 2002
PGA Players Championship TPC at Sawgrass Unheralded New Zealander Craig Perks chips-in twice on the final 3 holes for his only PGA Tour career win 2 strokes ahead of Stephen Ames
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.
24 Mar 2006
Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
24 Mar 2007
The Australian Labor Party is reinstated after the New South Wales state elections.
24 Mar 2008
Bhutan officially becomes a democracy with its first ever general election.
24 Mar 2010
Lee Kun-hee returns to Samsung Electronics chief executive officer (CEO) position after his resignation in April 21 2008
24 Mar 2012
African Union deploys 5000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony
24 Mar 2013
17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan Pakistan
24 Mar 2013
25 people are killed by gunmen in a coordinated attack in Adamawa State Nigeria
24 Mar 2013
A series of emergency meetings in Brussels undertaken to resolve Cyprus financial situation
24 Mar 2013
Scotland defeats Sweden to win the World Womens Curling Championship
24 Mar 2015
Germanwings flight on route between Barcelona and Dsseldorf crashes in the French Alps killing all 150 on board
24 Mar 2015
The Opportunity rover becomes the first to complete a Martian marathon
24 Mar 2016
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadi found guilty of genocide during 1995 Srebrenica massacre sentenced to 40 years
24 Mar 2016
English footballer Adam Johnson sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexual activity with a schoolgirl
24 Mar 2018
Tens of thousands attend March for Our Lives rallies held in Washington D.C. and around the world to protest gun violence
24 Mar 2018
American conducts it first ever drone strike against Qaeda militants in southern Libya
24 Mar 2018
Hundreds of protesters shut down special meeting at Sacramento City Hall investigating police shooting of Stephon Clark
24 Mar 2018
Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft is caught on camera rubbing match ball with an object during 3rd Cricket Test in Cape Town resulting in an infamous ball tampering scandal
24 Mar 1877
English FA Cup Final Kennington Oval London Wanderers beat Oxford University 21 (a.e.t.) Wanderers 4th title
24 Mar 1944
RAF rear gunner Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber 18000 feet over Germany without a parachute his fall broken by pine trees and soft snow suffers only a sprained leg
24 Mar 1956
18th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship San Francisco beats Iowa 83-71 Dons back-to-back National titles
24 Mar 1962
24th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Cincinnati beats Ohio State 71-59 Bearcats win back-to-back National titles
24 Mar 1974
36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64 Wolfpack first title first tournament officially designated as a Division I championship
24 Mar 1980
42nd NCAA Mens Basketball Championship Louisville beats UCLA 59-54 Cardinals first title in first title game
24 Mar 2019
New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski announces retirement as 3-time Super Bowl winner TE postseason record most receptions (81) receiving yards (1163) and receiving TDs (12)
24 Mar 2019
Investigation headed by Special Council Robert S. Mueller finds no evidence President Trump colluded with Russia in 2016 election
24 Mar 2019
2-time American League MVP Mike Trout signs the biggest contract in North American sports history a 426.5 million 12-year extension with the Los Angeles Angels
24 Mar 1927
Cuban chess champion Jos Ral Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournament
24 Mar 1927
Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian and Netherlands Wielingen Treaty
24 Mar 1944
In occupied Rome Nazis execute 335 civilians in retaliation for the previous days Via Rassela bombing that killed 33 Germans
24 Mar 1980
Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks on the LP Rarites
24 Mar 2018
Tens of thousands attend March for Our Lives rallies held in Washington D.C. and around the world to protest gun violence
24 Mar 2020
Chinas Hubei province the original center of the COVID-19 outbreak eases restrictions on travel after a nearly two-month lockdown
24 Mar 1913
Dutch soccer forward Huug de Groot scores twice as Netherlands score first ever victory over England 2-1 at HBS The Hague
24 Mar 1936
Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons 1-0 in 1630 of 6th period of OT record Stanley Cup playoff game lasts 9 periods (176 minutes)
24 Mar 1937
Bus carrying a roller skater troupe to Cincinnati from St.Louis crashes into a bridge abutment in Salem Illinois killing 21 people
24 Mar 1939
98th Grand National Irish jockey Tim Hyde wins riding 1008 shot Workman
24 Mar 1950
US Mens Figure Skating Championship won by Dick Button
24 Mar 1962
Emile Griffith beats Benny Kid Paret by TKO in 12th round in welterweight boxing title fight at MSG NYC Paret dies 10 days later first use of television slow motion replay
24 Mar 1973
San Francisco 49er president Lou Spadia proposes the NFL expands to 30 teams
24 Mar 1989
Exxon tanker Valdez spills 10.8 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound near Tatitlek Alaska
24 Mar 1992
Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space with the 1st Belgium in space onboard Dirk Frimout
24 Mar 1941
Richard Wright and Paul Greens play Native Son premieres in NYC
24 Mar 1947
US Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency
24 Mar 1973
Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City to become NWA professional wrestling champ
24 Mar 1984
Philip Glass opera Akhnaten based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh premieres at the Staatstheater in Stuttgart Germany
24 Mar 1988
San Diego Chargers quarterback Dan Fouts announces his retirement after 15 seasons
24 Mar 2019
US Attorney William Barr summarizes report submitted by Special Council Robert S. Mueller (The Mueller Report) in a letter to Congress stating investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsels investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense
24 Mar 2016
Former English international footballer Adam Johnson sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexual activity with a schoolgirl
24 Mar 2018
American conducts its first ever drone strike against Al-Qaeda militants in southern Libya
24 Mar 2019
Margo Hayes completes her third 9a (5.15a) graded climb Papichulo at Oliana Spain becoming the first woman to complete the 9a Trilogy
24 Mar 2023
Africas first centralised biobank - Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa collecting more than a million biodiversity samples opens in Pretoria South Africa [1]
24 Mar 2023
Chocolate factory explosion in West Reading borough Pennsylvania kills at least four people and injuries 10 with three missing [1]
24 Mar 2023
Supercell storm produces powerful EF-4 tornado in the Mississippi Delta which stays on the ground for more than an hour and over 170 miles killing 26 people [1]
24 Mar 1877
Ciro Pinsutis final opera Mattia Corvino first performance at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan Italy
24 Mar 2023
Chocolate factory explosion in West Reading Borough Pennsylvania kills at least four people and injures 10 with three missing [1]
24 Mar 2024
Brazilian police arrest two politicians and a police chief for the notorious murder and its cover-up of politician and activist Marielle Franco in 2018 [1]
24 Mar 2024
Senegal presidential election won by opposition figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye only 10 days after he was released from prison [1]
24 Mar 1379
First War of the Guelderian Succession ends when Matilda and the Heeckerens are defeated by the Duchy of Jlich forcing her to resign her rights to the Duchy of Guelders to her half-sister Marias son William
24 Mar 1629
First game law is passed in the American colonies by Virginia
24 Mar 1828
Philadelphia & Columbia Railway is authorized the first state owned railway
24 Mar 1837
Canada grants its Black citizens the right to vote
24 Mar 1883
First telephone call between New York City and Chicago
24 Mar 1900
New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground on a new underground rapid transit railway linking Manhattan and Brooklyn
24 Mar 1906
Census of the British Empire shows the United Kingdom rules one-fifth of the worlds landmass
24 Mar 1926
The Beehive in The Hague opens the first escalator in the Netherlands
24 Mar 1944
RAF rear gunner Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber 18000 feet over Germany without a parachute his fall is broken by pine trees and soft snow and he suffers only a sprained leg
24 Mar 1955
First seagoing oil drilling rig enters service
24 Mar 1965
Chivu Stoica is named President of the State Council of Romania
24 Mar 1965
NASA lunar probe Ranger 9 strikes the Moon 10 miles (16 km) northeast of the crater Alphonsus and transmits high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface
24 Mar 1992
Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space with the first Belgian astronaut on board Dirk Frimout
24 Mar 1993
South African President F.W. Willem de Klerk announces to South Africas Parliament the existence and abandonment of the former nuclear weapons program
24 Mar 1997
Australian Parliament overturns the worlds first and only euthanasia law
24 Mar 1998
Jonesboro massacre Two students ages 11 and 13 open fire on students and teachers at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro Arkansas five people are killed and ten are wounded
24 Mar 1999
Mont Blanc Tunnel fire 39 people die after a Belgian truck carrying flour and margarine catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel
24 Mar 1999
NATO commences an air bombardment against Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War the first attack by NATO on a sovereign country
24 Mar 1999
Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System [1]
24 Mar 2003
Arab League votes 21 to 1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of US and British troops from Iraq
24 Mar 2006
Long-term protests in Belarus are broken up by police
24 Mar 2007
The Australian Labor Party returns to government after the New South Wales state election
24 Mar 2008
Bhutan officially becomes a democracy with its first general election
24 Mar 2010
Lee Kun-hee returns as chairman of Samsung Electronics after resigning on April 21 2008
24 Mar 2015
Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps while flying from Barcelona to Dsseldorf killing all 150 people on board
24 Mar 2018
Australian batsman Cameron Bancroft is caught on camera rubbing the match ball with an object during the third cricket test in Cape Town resulting in an infamous ball-tampering scandal
24 Mar 2020
Chinas Hubei province the original center of the COVID-19 outbreak eases restrictions on travel after a nearly two-month lockdown
24 Mar 2025
The Atlantic publishes The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans claiming US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth included a journalist in a group chat detailing airstrikes in Yemen [1]