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Historical Events
on March 24th
- Lead Story
- Exxon Valdez runs aground,1989
- American Revolution
- Parliament passes the Quartering Act,1765
- Automotive
- Ferrari's around-the-world relay stops in L.A.,2007
- Civil War
- Wendall Phillips booed in Cincinnati,1862
- Cold War
- United States and Cuba engage in direct negotiations,1977
- Crime
- A school shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas, kills five,1998
- Disaster
- Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska,1989
- General Interest
- Queen Elizabeth I dies,1603
- Shannon Lucid enters Mir,1996
- NATO bombs Yugoslavia,1999
- Hollywood
- Halle Berry, Denzel Washington triumph at Oscars,2002
- Literary
- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens,1955
- Music
- Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army,1958
- Old West
- John Wesley Powell born,1834
- Presidential
- Truman signs off on aid to Palestine,1949
- Sports
- Peyton Manning born,1976
- Vietnam War
- First teach-in conducted,1965
- North Vietnamese launch "Ho Chi Minh Campaign",1975
- World War I
- German forces cross the Somme River,1918
- World War II
- Wingate dies in Burma,1944
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