What happened on March 24? There are more than 282 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About March 24
March 24 is the 84th day of the year 2024. There are 282 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 12th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Buffalo, New York 14265 sunrise occured at 07:08 AM and sunset occured at 07:34 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Aries. The modern birthstone for this month is Aquamarine while the mystical birthstone is Jade.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 311 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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March 24: A Day In History
March 24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar.
Historical Events For March 24
- 1401Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
- 1603James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England.
- 1603Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
- 1707The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1731Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
- 1765American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
- 1829Catholic Emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
- 1832In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.
- 1837Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
- 1860Sakuradamon incident (1860): Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke
- 1869The last of Titokowaru’s forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
- 1878The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
- 1882Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
- 1896A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
- 1900Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground “Rapid Transit Railroad” that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- 1907The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
- 1923Greece becomes a republic.
- 1927Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
- 1933The Enabling Act of 1933 is passed by the German Reichstag, allowing Adolf Hitler to gain plenary power.
- 1934U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
- 1944Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
- 1944World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
- 1946The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
- 1958Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
- 1959The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
- 1965NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
- 1972The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
- 1973Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California.
- 1976In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
- 1980Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
- 1986The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
- 1989Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240000 oilbbl of petroleum after running aground.
- 1993Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
- 1998A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
- 1998Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
- 1999Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- 1999Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 38 people
- 2000S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
- 2003The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
- 2008Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
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Who Were Born On March 24?
- 1494Georg Agricola, German scientist (d. 1555)
- 1607Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)
- 1628Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)
- 1657Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
- 1693John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)
- 1725Samuel Ashe, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
- 1725Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
- 1755Rufus King, American politician (d. 1827)
- 1775Muthuswami Dikshitar, South Indian poet and composer, considered one of the musical trinity of Carnatic music (d. 1835)
- 1782Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
- 1796John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
- 1803Egerton Ryerson, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1882)
- 1808Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836)
- 1809Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)
- 1809Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (d. 1837)
- 1820A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
- 1820Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915)
- 1826Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist and suffragette (d. 1898)
- 1828Horace Gray, American jurist and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1902)
- 1829George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
- 1829Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
- 1830Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889)
- 1834John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist (d. 1902)
- 1834William Morris, English writer and designer (d. 1896)
- 1835Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist (d. 1893)
- 1848Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906)
- 1850Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
- 1855Andrew Mellon, American financier (d. 1937)
- 1855Olive Schreiner, South African writer (d. 1920)
- 1874Harry Houdini, (Erik Weisz), Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
- 1874Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1961)
- 1884Eugène Tisserant, French Cardinal and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (d. 1972)
- 1884Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1966)
- 1886Athenagoras I, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
- 1886Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
- 1887Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, American actor (d. 1933)
- 1888Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
- 1889Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
- 1890Agnes Macphail, first female member of the Canadian House of Commons (d. 1954)
- 1891Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
- 1893George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
- 1893Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
- 1897Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-born psychotherapist (d. 1957)
- 1901Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
- 1902Thomas E. Dewey, American politician (d. 1971)
- 1903Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995)
- 1903Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar (d. 1990)
- 1905Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007)
- 1906Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
- 1907Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
- 1909Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934)
- 1910Richard Conte, American actor (d. 1975)
- 1911Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (d. 2006)
- 1912Dorothy Height, American activist (d. 2010)
- 1915“Gorgeous” George Wagner, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
- 1916Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006)
- 1916Harry Blackmore Whittington, British palaeontologist (d. 2010)
- 1917Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007)
- 1917John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
- 1919Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher
- 1919Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005)
- 1920Gene Nelson, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1921Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (d. 1987)
- 1921Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)
- 1922Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)
- 1923Michael Legat, England writer (d. 2011)
- 1923Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1924Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1925Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994)
- 1926Dario Fo, Italian writer, Nobel laureate
- 1926Desmond Connell, Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin
- 1927Martin Walser, German author
- 1928Byron Janis, American pianist
- 1930Agustín González, Spanish actor (d. 2005)
- 1930David Dacko, Central African Republician politician (d. 2003)
- 1930Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
- 1931Hanno Drechsler, German politician (d. 2003)
- 1934William Smith, American actor
- 1935Carol Kaye, American musician
- 1935Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
- 1936David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
- 1937Billy Stewart, American singer (d. 1970)
- 1938David Irving, British historian
- 1938Holger Czukay, German musician (Can)
- 1940Bob Mackie, American fashion designer
- 1940Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
- 1944R. Lee Ermey, American actor
- 1944Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister
- 1945Curtis Hanson, American film director
- 1945Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
- 1946Klaus Dinger, German musician (d. 2008)
- 1947Alan Sugar, English businessman
- 1947Christine Gregoire, American politician
- 1947Dennis Erickson, American football coach
- 1947Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
- 1948Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (d. 1989)
- 1949Nick Lowe, British musician
- 1949Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer
- 1949Tabitha Spruce, American writer, poet and activist
- 1950Gary Wichard, American professional sports agent (d. 2011)
- 1951Dougie Thomson, British bassist
- 1951Pat Bradley, American golfer
- 1951Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
- 1953Anita L. Allen, American law professor
- 1953Louie Anderson, American comedian
- 1954Donna Pescow, American actress
- 1954Robert Carradine, American actor
- 1955Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956Steve Ballmer, American businessman
- 1957Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and cross-country skier
- 1958Mike Woodson, American basketball player and head coach
- 1959Derek Statham, English footballer
- 1960Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler
- 1960Kelly LeBrock, American actress
- 1960Nena, German pop singer
- 1960Scott Pruett, American race car driver
- 1961Dean Jones, Australian cricketer
- 1962Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
- 1962Star Jones, American television personality
- 1963Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer goalkeeper
- 1965Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor
- 1965Patrick Scales, British-German electric bass guitar player
- 1965Peter Jacobson, American actor
- 1965The Undertaker, American professional wrestler
- 1969Houston, American pornographic actress
- 1970Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
- 1970Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
- 1970Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian football player
- 1970Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
- 1971Megyn Price, American actress
- 1972Steve Karsay, American baseball player
- 1973Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
- 1973Jim Parsons, American actor
- 1973Mette Jacobsen, Danish swimmer
- 1973Philippe Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973Steve Corica, Australian footballer
- 1974Alyson Hannigan, American actress
- 1974Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot)
- 1975Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer and actress
- 1975Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
- 1976Aaron Brooks, American football player
- 1976Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer
- 1976Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
- 1976Peyton Manning, American football player
- 1977Angellica Bell, English TV presenter
- 1977Corneille, Rwandan/Canadian singer
- 1977Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league footballer
- 1977Olivia Burnette, American actress
- 1978Kaori Mochida, Japanese singer (Every Little Thing)
- 1978Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer
- 1979Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
- 1979Graeme Swann, English cricketer
- 1979Lake Bell, American actress
- 1979Norris Hopper, American baseball player
- 1979Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete
- 1980Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
- 1981Dirk Hayhurst, American baseball player
- 1981Gary Paffett, British racing driver
- 1981Mark Looms, Dutch footballer
- 1981Mike Adams, American football player
- 1981Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
- 1982Christian Hug, German rugby player
- 1982Corey Hart, American baseball player
- 1982Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
- 1982Jack Swagger, American professional wrestler
- 1982Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer
- 1982Nivea, American singer
- 1983Kelvin Kwan, Hong Kong singer
- 1983Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
- 1983Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
- 1983T. J. Ford, American basketball player
- 1984Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
- 1984Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French footballer
- 1984Chris Bosh, American basketball player
- 1984Park Bom, South Korean singer (2NE1)
- 1985Amanda Lameche, Swedish singer
- 1985Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
- 1986Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver
- 1986Tony McMahon, English footballer
- 1987Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
- 1987Yuma Asami, Japanese adult video actress
- 1988Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
- 1989Aziz Shavershian, Australian body-builder (d. 2011)
- 1990Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
- 1990Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian/New Zealand actress
- 1990Starlin Castro, American baseball player
- 1998Isabel Suckling, British Choirgirl
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Who Died On March 24?
- 809Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (b. 763)
- 1284King Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)
- 1381Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint (b. 1332)
- 1396Walter Hilton, English mystic (b. 1340)
- 1455Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
- 1558Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (b. 1533)
- 1563Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
- 1575Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
- 1603Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
- 1653Samuel Scheidt, German composer (b. 1587)
- 1773Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)
- 1776John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)
- 1869Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
- 1881Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
- 1882Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
- 1887Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
- 1888Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
- 1905Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)
- 1909John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
- 1915Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
- 1916Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (b. 1867)
- 1921Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
- 1926Phan Chu Trinh, Vietnamese nationalist (b. 1872)
- 1944Orde Charles Wingate, British Major-General, prominent Zionist, eccentric (b. 1903)
- 1946Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
- 1948Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
- 1950James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
- 1953Mary of Teck, Queen Consort to George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
- 1962Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
- 1962Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (b. 1899)
- 1968Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)
- 1976Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)
- 1980Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
- 1984Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
- 1990Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922)
- 1991Sir John Kerr, Australian Governor-General (b. 1914)
- 1993Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (b. 1905)
- 1993John Hersey, American author (b. 1914)
- 1995Joseph Needham, British academic and sinologist (b. 1900)
- 1997Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (b. 1939)
- 1997Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (b. 1927)
- 1999Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
- 1999Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women’s activist (b. 1902)
- 2001Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
- 2002César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
- 2003Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
- 2006Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
- 2008Chalmers “Spanky” Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
- 2008Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
- 2008Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
- 2008Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
- 2009George Kell, American baseball player (b. 1922)
- 2010Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
- 2010Johnny Maestro, American singer (b. 1939)
- 2010Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)
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