This Day in History
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
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Astronaut Shannon Lucid enters Mir space station
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Queen Elizabeth I dies
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Exxon Valdez crashes, causing one of the worst oil spills in history
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German forces cross the Somme River
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North Vietnamese launch Ho Chi Minh Campaign
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First anti-war teach-in conducted
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Peyton Manning born
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Truman signs off on aid to Palestine
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John Wesley Powell born
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Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens
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Halle Berry, Denzel Washington triumph at Oscars
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Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska
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A school shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas, kills five
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