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Events from History on March 24

1379 : End of Gelderse war victory
1545 : German Parliament opens in Worms
1550 : France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
1603 : Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
1629 : 1st game law 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 Brandenburgse Concerts
1734 : Neth's William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover
1765 : Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide
1765 : temporary housing to British soldiers
1792 : Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
1801 : Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
1828 : Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1832 : Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & 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 & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1878 : British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
1880 : Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT
1882 : German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
1883 : 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
1887 : Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
1890 : Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG)
1894 : 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA
1898 : 1st automobile sold
1906 : "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world
1913 : Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England
1913 : Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC
1920 : 1st US 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 1st escalator in Netherlands
1927 : Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
1927 : Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Neth's Wielingen Treaty
1930 : 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
1930 : Planet Pluto named
1930 : R˜nsburgse Boys soccer team forms
1932 : 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)
1933 : Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
1934 : US 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 & 30 seconds of 6th period
1936 : Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0
1937 : Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (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 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
1941 : Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in NYC
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
1945 : Gen Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany
1945 : Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
1945 : Operation Varsity: British, US & Canadian airborne landings E of Rhine
1945 : US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
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
1949 : Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win
1950 : US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1950 : US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1952 : Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
1953 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 : 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1955 : British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
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 : US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene
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 & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
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
1970 : Dutch cartoonist Frans Pi‰t ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
1971 : #6672 Corot & #6750 Katgert
1971 : .#1872 Helenos & #1877 Marsden
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 : SF 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
1974 : 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: NC State beats Marquette 76-64
1976 : Argentine Pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's military
1978 : Wings release "With a Little Luck"
1979 : 10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn
1979 : "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
1979 : Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center
1979 : Mich State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts,
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 : Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
1981 : Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
1982 : US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1984 : Andrea Sch”ne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52)
1984 : Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51)
1985 : 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins
1985 : Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)
1986 : 58th Academy Awards - "Out of Africa," William Hurt & G Page win
1986 : NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle
1986 : Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
1986 : US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
1986 : to Flight Status"
1987 : 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross
1988 : "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 perfs
1988 : Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
1989 : Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973
1989 : Worst US 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 & Ghosts Can't Do It wins
1991 : In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen]
1991 : NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3
1991 : Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter
1992 : "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances
1992 : 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis
1992 : Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
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 NYC for 322 performances
1994 : "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances
1994 : F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC, 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 : MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
1997 : 69th Academy Awards - "English Patient," T Cruise & Brenda Blythen win
1997 : Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law

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