Today in History
24th March
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| 1188 Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I was born | ||
| 1379 End of Gelderse war victory | ||
| 1401 In his sweep through Asia and the Mediterranean, the Tatar ruler Tamerlane conquered Damascus. | ||
| 1441 Ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86) was born | ||
| 1449 England broke a truce and captured Fougeres from the French, leading Charles VII to renew the Hundred Years War. | ||
| 1494 Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) was born | ||
| 1545 German Parliament opens in Worms | ||
| 1550 France & England sign Peace of Boulogne | ||
| 1603 Queen Elizabeth I died after ruling England for more than 40 years. James VI of Scotland acceded to the throne as James I, uniting the thrones of Scotland and England. | ||
| 1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia | ||
| 1644 Britain granted a charter to Roger Williams for the colony of Rhode Island. | ||
| 1645 Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS RC emperor Ferdinand III | ||
| 1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island | ||
| 1714 Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer was born | ||
| 1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts | ||
| 1734 Neth's William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover | ||
| 1762 Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer (Portogallo) was born | ||
| 1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers | ||
| 1792 Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London | ||
| 1801 Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia | ||
| 1814 Galen Clark, US, naturalist/discovered Mariposa Grove was born | ||
| 1828 In United States, a government act authorized the building of the first state-owned railway; the Philadelphia to Columbia railroad via Lancaster opened in 1834. | ||
| 1834 John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist was born | ||
| 1837 Canada gives blacks the right to vote | ||
| 1837 Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium was born | ||
| 1848 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam | ||
| 1855 Olive Schreiner, S African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman) was born | ||
| 1871 Ernest Rutherford, nuclear scientist was born | ||
| 1874 Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist was born | ||
| 1874 Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55) was born | ||
| 1877 University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat | ||
| 1878 British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost | ||
| 1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB | ||
| 1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet and author of "Song of Hiawatha," died. | ||
| 1883 James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop was born | ||
| 1894 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA | ||
| 1897 Charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor was born | ||
| 1898 1st automobile sold | ||
| 1922 Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish | ||
| 1924 Greece becomes a republic | ||
| 1933 Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency | ||
| 1934 The United States adopted the Tydings-McDuffie Act providing for Philippines independence in 1945. | ||
| 1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress | ||
| 1941 British troops defeat British Somalia | ||
| 1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya | ||
| 1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin | ||
| 1944 In occupied Rome, Nazis execute more than 300 civilians | ||
| 1944 General Orde Wingate was killed in a plane crash in Burma. He had led his "Chindits," a band of British, Gurkha and Burmese guerrillas, in raids behind Japanese lines from 1943-44. | ||
| 1945 Gen Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany | ||
| 1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders | ||
| 1945 The Allies made four crossings of the Lower Rhine between Rees and Wesel with airborne troops later making contact with British infantry. | ||
| 1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa | ||
| 1949 In the Oscar ceremony, a father and son won awards for the first time when Walter Huston and his son John won the Oscars for the film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." | ||
| 1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa | ||
| 1953 A resident of Ten Rillington Place, London, discovered a body in a cupboard. It led to the arrest of mass murderer John Christie. | ||
| 1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service | ||
| 1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years | ||
| 1958 Rock 'n' roll star Elvis Presley joined the U.S. army for two years. | ||
| 1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact | ||
| 1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued | ||
| 1965 The U.S. spacecraft Ranger 9 crash-landed on the moon. Some of the 5,000 pictures it sent back were broadcast live on TV for the first time. | ||
| 1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland | ||
| 1976 President Isabel Peron of Argentina was deposed in a bloodless military coup; Gen. Jorge Videla was named as president. | ||
| 1976 Field Marshall Bernard Law Montgomery died; he defeated the Germans at El Alamein. | ||
| 1977 Morarji Desai was sworn in as India prime minister, replacing Indira Gandhi. | ||
| 1978 The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz, aground in the English Channel since March 16, split in two, spilling the last of her 1.6 million barrels of oil. | ||
| 1979 1st appearance as Australian cricket capt for Kim Hughes | ||
| 1979 Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center | ||
| 1980 Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was shot dead by right-wing hit squads while preparing for Mass in San Salvador. | ||
| 1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba | ||
| 1982 Lt. Gen Mohammad Hossain Ershad declared himself martial law leader of Bangladesh after a military coup. | ||
| 1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra | ||
| 1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires | ||
| 1988 Former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu was found guilty in an Israeli court of treason for revealing Israel's nuclear secrets. | ||
| 1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska | ||
| 1990 2,000 Indian troops, the last of an original contingent of some 50,000, left Trincomalee after a two-and-a-half-year operation to put down a separatist revolt by the minority Tamil community. | ||
| 1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens: 5-6 die | ||
| 1993 Ezer Weizman was elected Israel's seventh president. | ||
| 1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC, 120 die | ||
| 1994 The self-proclaimed Bosnian Serb republic refused to join a Muslim-Croat federation until U.N. sanctions on Serbia were lifted. | ||
| 1995 Britain said it was halting all routine army patrols in Belfast for the first time in 25 years. | ||
| 1996 Iraqis voted in the country's first parliamentary elections since the 1991 Gulf War. Most of the candidates registered as independents. | ||
| 1996 Former Marxist military ruler Mathieu Kerekou, staging a dramatic comeback in Benin, was proclaimed winner of the West African nation's second multi-party presidential election | ||
C.H. OSTFELD INC.