Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 24
This is a list of selected March 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Exxon Valdez aground -
Ukiyo-e depiction of the Sakuradamon incident
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice in Argentina | stub |
| 1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach presented Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt with six concertos, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos. | refimprove section |
| 1927 – Following the capture of Nanjing by an alliance of Nationalist and Communist forces, British and American warships bombarded the city in defence of foreign citizens there. | refimprove |
| 1944 – World War II: German occupation troops killed 335 people in Rome as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day against the SS Police Regiment Bozen. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – Second World War: Captured Allied airmen began "the Great Escape", breaking out of the German prison camp Stalag Luft III. | refimprove section |
| 1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on television, brought images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing. | single source |
| 1976 – Led by Jorge Rafael Videla, the Argentine military deposed President Isabel Perón in a coup d'état, established a military junta known as the National Reorganization Process, and began state-sponsored violence against dissidents known as the Dirty War. | citations needed |
| 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. | refimprove section |
| 2015 – The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed the aircraft in a mass murder–suicide in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. | section needs cleanup |
| * 1550 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: England and Scotland signed the Treaty of Boulogne, ending hostilities between the two nations in the Rough Wooing. | Source cited (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1982.tb01144.x) says "peace treaty signed on 25 March" |
| * 1989 – The tanker Exxon Valdez began to spill 10.8 million US gal (260,000 bbl; 41,000 m3) of crude oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing one of the most devastating man-made maritime environmental disasters. | Citations needed |
Eligible
- 1869 – New Zealand Wars: Māori leader Tītokowaru's conflict ended with the last of his forces surrendering to the New Zealand colonial government.
- 1882 – German physician Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis.
- 1898 – The Winton Motor Carriage Company (ad pictured), one of the first American car companies, sold its first unit.
- 1921 – The inaugural Women's Olympiad, the first international women's sports event, opened at the International Sporting Club of Monaco in Monte Carlo.
- 1922 – Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, two men wearing police uniforms broke into a house and murdered a Catholic family in what was believed to be a reprisal for the deaths of two policemen the day before.
- 1934 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act came into effect, which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence from the United States after a period of ten years.
- Born/died this day: | Wulfred |d|832| Catherine of Vadstena |d|1381| Fanny Crosby |b|1820| William Morris |b|1834|Thomas E. Dewey |b|1902|Jules Verne |d|1905| David Irving |b|1938| Kitty O'Neil |b|1946| Mary of Teck |d|1953| E. T. Whittaker |d|1956| Maria Radner |d|2015
March 24: World Tuberculosis Day
- 1603 – James VI of Scotland (pictured) succeeded to the thrones of England and Ireland as James I, uniting the realms under a single monarch.
- 1860 – Japanese chief minister Ii Naosuke was assassinated by rōnin samurai upset with his role in opening Japan to foreign powers.
- 1946 – The British Cabinet Mission arrived in New Delhi to discuss the transfer of power from the colonial government to Indian leadership.
- 1980 – One day after making a plea to Salvadoran soldiers to stop carrying out the government's repression, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
- 2008 – Led by Jigme Thinley, the Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party won 45 of 47 seats in the country's first National Assembly election.
- Elizabeth Ridgeway (d. 1684)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (d. 1882)
- Jessica Chastain (b. 1977)