What historical events happened on March 24?

Answer 1

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03/03/0078 - Origin of Saka Era (India)

03/03/0468 - St Simplicius elected to succeed Catholic Pope Hilarius

03/03/0493 - Ostrogoten King Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker

03/03/1409 - Austrian civil war ends

03/03/1431 - Bishop Gabriele Condulmer elected as Pope Eugene IV

03/03/1627 - Piet Heyn conquerors 22 ships in Bay of Salvador Brazil

03/03/1634 - 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)

03/03/1638 - Duke Bernard van Saksen-Weimar occupies Rheinfelden

03/03/1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness

03/03/1776 - US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas

03/03/1791 - 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits and carriages)

03/03/1791 - Congress establishes US Mint

03/03/1794 - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D

03/03/1794 - Richard Allen founded AME Church

03/03/1801 - 1st US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia

03/03/1803 - 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins

03/03/1805 - Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms

03/03/1812 - US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)

03/03/1813 - Office of surgeon general of the US army forms

03/03/1815 - US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners and demanding tribute

03/03/1817 - Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory and Mississippi

03/03/1820 - Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri

03/03/1835 - Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans Louisiana

03/03/1837 - US president Andrew Jackson and Congress recognizes Republic of Texas

03/03/1837 - Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9

03/03/1838 - Rebellion at Pelee Island, Ontario Canada

03/03/1842 - 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)

03/03/1842 - 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony

03/03/1843 - Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test the practicability of establishing a system of electro-magnetic telegraphs" by the US

03/03/1845 - Florida becomes 27th state

03/03/1845 - Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery

03/03/1845 - 1st time, US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto

03/03/1847 - Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps

03/03/1849 - Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle gold coin

03/03/1849 - Home Dept (Interior Dept), forms

03/03/1849 - Minnesota Territory is organizes

03/03/1849 - Territory of Minnesota organizes

03/03/1849 - US Department of the Interior established by Congress

03/03/1851 - Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3› piece)

03/03/1853 - Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized by Congress

03/03/1853 - US Assay Office in NYC authorized

03/03/1855 - Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use

03/03/1855 - Congress authorizes registered mail

03/03/1861 - Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom [OS=Feb 19]

03/03/1862 - General Pope lays siege in front of New Madrid

03/03/1862 - Battle of New Madrid MO-captured by Union forces

03/03/1863 - Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences

03/03/1863 - Idaho Territory forms

03/03/1863 - Gold certificates (currency) authorized by Congress

03/03/1863 - Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired

03/03/1863 - Federal ironclad ships bomb Fort McAllister Georgia

03/03/1863 - Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City, Nevada

03/03/1863 - Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences

03/03/1863 - 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted

03/03/1865 - Freedmen's Bureau is created to help destitute free blacks

03/03/1865 - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established

03/03/1869 - University of South Carolina opens to all races

03/03/1871 - Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent

03/03/1871 - Congress establishes the civil service system

03/03/1873 - US Congress and government raise own salary, retroactively

03/03/1873 - Congress authorizes federal departmental postage stamps

03/03/1875 - 1st recorded hockey game (Montreal)

03/03/1875 - Congress authorizes 20› coin, lasts only 3 years

03/03/1875 - Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris)

03/03/1877 - Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president

03/03/1878 - Bulgaria liberated from Turkey (Peace of San Stefano)

03/03/1879 - US Geological Survey director authorized in Dept of the Interior

03/03/1879 - 1st female lawyer heard by Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)

03/03/1882 - NY Steam Corp begins distributing steam to Manhattan buildings

03/03/1883 - Congress authorizes the 1st steel vessels in US navy

03/03/1885 - 1st US state (Calif) establishes a permanent forest commission

03/03/1885 - American Telephone and Telegraph (ATandT) incorporates

03/03/1885 - Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed govt)

03/03/1885 - US Post Office offers special delivery for 1st-class mail

03/03/1887 - Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller

03/03/1887 - American Protective Assn forms (anti-Catholic) in Clinton Iowa

03/03/1891 - Congress creates US Courts of Appeal

03/03/1891 - Congress creates Office of Supt of Immigration (Treasury Dept)

03/03/1891 - Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created

03/03/1892 - 1st cattle tuberculosis test in US made, Villa Nova, Penn

03/03/1893 - Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized

03/03/1893 - Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Dept of Agriculture

03/03/1894 - 4th and last British government of Gladstone resigns

03/03/1894 - 1st Greek-language publication in US begins, "NY Atlantis"

03/03/1899 - Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar

03/03/1899 - George Dewey becomes 1st in US with rank of Admiral of the Navy

03/03/1900 - US Steel Corporation organizes

03/03/1901 - Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce

03/03/1903 - North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses

03/03/1905 - US Forest Service forms

03/03/1906 - Vuia I aircraft built by Romanian Traja Vuia tested in France

03/03/1909 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3

03/03/1911 - 1st US federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri

03/03/1913 - Ida B Wells-Barnett demonstrates for female suffrage in Washington DC

03/03/1915 - Natl Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created

03/03/1917 - Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS)

03/03/1917 - Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar

03/03/1917 - Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations

03/03/1918 - Richard G"ring's "Seeschlacht," premieres in Berlin

03/03/1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria and Russia sign

03/03/1919 - 1st international air mail service from US, Seattle-Victoria, BC

03/03/1919 - Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike

03/03/1920 - Montreal Canadiens scores NHL record 16 goals beating Quebec Bulldogs

03/03/1921 - Toronto's Dr Banting and Dr Best announce discovery of insulin

03/03/1922 - WWJ-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions

03/03/1922 - Italian fascists occupy Fiume and Rijeka

03/03/1923 - Time magazine publishes 1st issue [or March 23]

03/03/1923 - US Senate rejects membership in Intl Court of Justice, The Hague

03/03/1924 - German and Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed

03/03/1924 - Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," premieres in Dublin

03/03/1926 - International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)

03/03/1931 - Cab Calloway records "Minnie Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller)

03/03/1931 - "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem

03/03/1933 - German presidential candidate Earnest Th"lmann (KPD) arrested

03/03/1933 - Mount Rushmore dedicated

03/03/1933 - NYC premiere of "King Kong"

03/03/1934 - John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol

03/03/1935 - Dutch Revolutionary Socialist Worker's party (RSAP), forms

03/03/1936 - Grimmett ends his Test career with 13 wkts in 5th Test v S Afr

03/03/1937 - Australia snatch series against England 3-2 after being 2-0 down

03/03/1938 - American Bowling Congress' largest tournament (24,765 competitors)

03/03/1940 - Artie Shaw records "Frenesi" on RCA Victor label

03/03/1941 - Neth NSB-leader Mussert visits G"ring in Berlin

03/03/1942 - 1st combat flight for Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

03/03/1943 - US defeats Japan and wins Battle of Bismark Sea

03/03/1943 - F Ryerson and Cohn Claues' "Harriet," premieres in NYC

03/03/1943 - Bomb fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die

03/03/1944 - 1st performance of corporal Samuel Barber's 2nd Symphony

03/03/1945 - Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter

03/03/1945 - RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511

03/03/1945 - Roermond/Venlo Neth, freed

03/03/1945 - US and Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor

03/03/1945 - US 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall

03/03/1946 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button

03/03/1946 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill

03/03/1950 - 3 months as National-American Football League takes back NFL name

03/03/1951 - Bill Mikvy (Temple) scores NCAA basketball record 73 pts

03/03/1952 - Puerto Rico approves their 1st self written constitution

03/03/1953 - Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed

03/03/1953 - Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee

03/03/1955 - Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance

03/03/1956 - Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack makes plans for a new 110,000-seat stadium to entice Giants to stay in NY

03/03/1956 - Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)

03/03/1956 - Indonesian govt of Harahap resigns

03/03/1956 - Cockie Gastelaars swims world record 100 m freestyle (1:04.2)

03/03/1957 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss (US)

03/03/1957 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open

03/03/1957 - Men's Figure Skating Champ in Colo Springs won by David Jenkins (USA)

03/03/1957 - Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul (CAN)

03/03/1957 - Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Markham and Jones (GRB)

03/03/1957 - Corry Brokken wins Eurovision Song festival with "Just as then"

03/03/1958 - KTVU TV channel 2 in Oakland-San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast

03/03/1958 - Nuri ash Said becomes premier of Iraq

03/03/1959 - SF Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park

03/03/1959 - Brit govt arrests Hastings Banda of Nyasaland, ends emergency crisis

03/03/1959 - 1st US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched

03/03/1960 - 9th largest snowfall in NYC history (14.5")

03/03/1961 - King Hassan II's ascends to throne of Morocco

03/03/1962 - British Antarctic Territory forms

03/03/1963 - Senegal adopts constitution

03/03/1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

03/03/1965 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

03/03/1965 - Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1

03/03/1966 - Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)

03/03/1966 - James Goldman's "Lion in Winter," premieres in NYC

03/03/1966 - Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guin'e

03/03/1966 - Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms

03/03/1966 - Twister hits Jackson Miss; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die

03/03/1966 - WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting

03/03/1967 - White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game)

03/03/1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

03/03/1967 - Grenada gains partial independence from Britain

03/03/1968 - "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC

03/03/1968 - Greece, Portugal and Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague

03/03/1968 - Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts

03/03/1969 - Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days)

03/03/1971 - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail in South Africa

03/03/1971 - South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles

03/03/1972 - Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia

03/03/1973 - "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 31 performances

03/03/1973 - White Sox Dick Allen signs 3 year contract for record $750,000

03/03/1974 - World's worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)

03/03/1974 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic

03/03/1974 - George Foreman KOs Ken Norton

03/03/1974 - Despite Billy Harris' hat trick Islanders lose 3-4

03/03/1974 - "Sextet" opens at Bijou Theater NYC for 9 performances

03/03/1975 - "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances

03/03/1975 - Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana

03/03/1976 - Mozambique closes border with Rhodesia

03/03/1977 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Tokyo won by Linda Fratianne (USA)

03/03/1977 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Tokyo won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)

03/03/1977 - Libyan Socialist Arabs People's Republic forms

03/03/1977 - Islanders allow Red Wings only 11 shots on goal

03/03/1977 - Ice Pairs Champs at Tokyo won by Irina Rodnina/Alexandr Zaitsev (URS)

03/03/1978 - 1st day of Test cricket for Desmond Haynes (WI v Australia)

03/03/1978 - Charles Chaplin's remains are stolen in Switzerland

03/03/1980 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island

03/03/1981 - NY Islanders and Edmonton Oilers play to an 8-8 tie

03/03/1981 - Isle's Mike Bossy 9th and final hat trick of season-4 goals

03/03/1982 - Senate begins debate on expulsion of Sen Harrison Williams (D-NJ)03/03/1984 - NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Tor Maple Leafs (6)

03/03/1984 - Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)

03/03/1985 - Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million

03/03/1985 - National Union of Mine Workers in England end a 51 week strike

03/03/1985 - Bill Shoemaker is 1st jockey to surpass $100 million

03/03/1985 - Betsy King wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic

03/03/1985 - "My One and Only" closes at St James Theater NYC after 767 performances

03/03/1985 - "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard and Bruce Willis, premieres

03/03/1987 - Ray Dandridge, 3rd baseman in Negro Leagues, eleected to Hall of Fame

03/03/1989 - Machinists strike Eastern Airlines; pilots honor picket lines

03/03/1989 - Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 yrs probation for Iran-Contra

03/03/1990 - Carole Gist, 20, (Michigan 1st black), crowned 39th Miss USA

03/03/1991 - United Airlines crashes near Colorado Springs, kills 25

03/03/1991 - Switzerland votes on lowering voting age from 20 to 18

03/03/1991 - Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tom' e Principal

03/03/1991 - Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (22.24 sec)

03/03/1991 - Latvia and Estonia vote to become independent of the USSR

03/03/1991 - LA Police severly beat Rodney King, captured on amateur video

03/03/1991 - Iraqi generals and Gen Schwarzkopf meet to discuss cease fire

03/03/1991 - Boon completes 10th Test Cricket century, 109* v WI at Kingston

03/03/1991 - 4 LA cops beat Rodney King, it is video taped

03/03/1991 - 25 die as United Boeing 737 crashes in Colorado Springs

03/03/1991 - "Big Love" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 41 performances

03/03/1992 - Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die

03/03/1992 - Mike Bossy's #22 is 2nd # retired by NY Islanders

03/03/1992 - Pres Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to

03/03/1992 - Charges are filed in Florida against NY Mets Darryl Boston, Vince Coleman and Dwight Gooden of rape (dropped in April)

03/03/1993 - Howard Stern radio show premieres in Boston (WBCN 104.1 FM-evenings)

03/03/1994 - "Damn Yankees" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 510 performances

03/03/1994 - "Philoktetes Variations," with Ron Vawter, premieres in Brussels

03/03/1994 - IRS investigates Darryl Strawberry

03/03/1995 - Camilla Parker Bowles and her husband Andrew divorce

03/03/1996 - 26th Easter Seal Telethon

03/03/1996 - Auckland beat Wellington by 9 wickets to win Shell Trophy Final

03/03/1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Fayetteville NC on WRCQ 103.5 FM

03/03/1998 - Bill Gates testifies at Senate Judiciary Committee

Answer 2

from answers.com

* 622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina. * 1664 - The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England. * 1789 - The office of the Attorney General of the United States of America, and the United States Post Office Department are established. * 1841 - The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain. * 1852 - The first airship is displayed. * 1869 - "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market. * 1877 - Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion * 1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy. * 1903 - Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin. * 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument. * 1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi * 1946 - Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong * 1947 - Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman * 1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded. * 1950 - Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A Blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe. * 1957 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona. * 1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. * 1962 - United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith. * 1973 - Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal. * 1988 - Summer Olympics: Ben Johnson beats Carl Lewis and Linford Christie in the 100 metres sprint in a record time of 9.79 seconds. (Johnson would later be disqualified in a high profile case of doping.) * 1990 - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn * 1994 - National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar. * 1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations. * 2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.

Answer 3

give me 3 main events that happened on march from the book called Catherine called Birdy

Answer 4

1989- Exxon Valdez oil spill