On this day in History - Mar 24

• 0809 - Harun al-Rashid dies at the age of 44. Caliph of the Abbasid empire from 786 to 809.
• 1373 - Tratado de paz de Santarém entre D. Fernando e Henrique II de Castela que põe fim à segunda guerra entre Portugal e Castela no reinado de D. Fernando. O Rei de Portugal é obrigado a abandonar a Aliança com a Inglaterra acordada por meio do tratado de Tagilde assinado em Julho do ano anterior.
• 1455 - Pope Nicholas V [Tommaso Parentucelli] dies (b. 1397). The first Renaissance pope
• 1494 - Georg Agricola was born (d. 1555). Scientist ("The Father of Mineralogy").
• 1550 - France and England sign Peace of Boulogne .
• 1603 - King James VI of Scotland ascended the Engklish throne as James I following the death of Elizabeth I.
• 1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England dies (b. 1533) .
• 1607 - Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter was born (d. 1667). Dutch admiral.
• 1630 - José Saenz d'Aguirre was born. Spanish cardinal .
• 1644 - Cecilia Renata dies. Arch duchess of Austria.
• 1645 - Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beat SRC emperor Ferdinand III .
• 1657 - Arai Hakuseki was born (d. 1725). Japanese Confucianist, poet, politician and writer.
• 1661 - Florence Newton was arrested for witchcraft in Ireland.
• 1668 - O casamento de D. Afonso VI com D. Maria Francisca de Sabóia é considerado nulo.
• 1693 - John Harrison was born (d. 1776). British clockmaker.
• 1703 - José F de Isla [Francisco de Salazar] was born. Spanish Jesuit, writer.
• 1725 - Samuel Ashe was born (d. 1813). Governor of North Carolina.
• 1725 - Thomas Cushing was born (d. 1788). American Continental Congressman.
• 1762 - Marcos Antonio da Fonseca was born. Portuguese opera composer.
• 1765 - American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the 13 American colonies to house British troops.
• 1792 - Benjamin West became the first American artist to be selected president of the Royal Academy of London.
• 1794 - In Cracow a revolutionary manifesto was proclaimed. The Lithuanian and Polish nobility under the leadership of Tadas Kasciuska revolted against Russian control.
• 1796 - John Corry Wilson Daly was born (d. 1878). Canadian politician.
• 1797 - Antonio Rosmini-Serbati was born (d. 01 Jul 1855). Philosopher: founded Institute of Charity aka the Rosminians.
• 1816 - Se constituye el Congreso de Tucumán que declara la independencia argentina el 9 de julio de 1816.
• 1820 - A. E. Becquerel was born (d. 1891). French physicist.
• 1830 - Robert Hamerling was born (d. 1889). Austrian poet.
• 1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
• 1834 - John Wesley Powell was born (d. 1902). American explorer and environmentalist.
• 1834 - William Morris was born. (d. 03 Oct 1896). English writer and designer.
• 1835 - Jožef Stefan was born (d. 07 Jan 1893). Slovenian physicist, mathematician and poet
• 1837 - Canada gives Africans the right to vote.
• 1844 - Nascimento do místico, político, religioso e benemérito brasileiro, Padre Cícero Romão Batista, em Crato-CE, muito querido e respeitado pelo povo nordestino.
• 1855 - Andrew Mellon was born (d. 1937). American financier.
• 1855 - Olive Schreiner was born (d. 1920). South African writer.
• 1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed.
• 1869 - Antoine-Henri Jomini dies (b. 1779). General.
• 1874 - Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss) was born in Budapest (d. 1926). Magician who earned an international reputation for his daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, and handcuffs and from locked containers such as coffins and prison cells.
• 1875 - Henry Hallett Dale, fisiólogo inglés, premio Nobel de Medicina en 1936.
• 1878 - The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.
• 1882 - Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis).
• 1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies (b. 1807). Author.
• 1884 - Peter Debye was born (d. 1966). Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1936.
• 1886 - Edward Weston, was born (d. 1958). American photographer.
• 1887 - Fatty Arbuckle was born (d. 1933). American actor.
• 1888 - Viktor Kingissepp was born (d. 1922). Estonian Bolshevik politician.
• 1889 - Olegário Mariano was born in Recife (d. 28 Nov 1958). Brazilian poet and diplomat.
• 1889 - Albert Hill was born (d. 1969). British athlete.
• 1891 - John Knittel was born (d. 1970). Dramatist.
• 1893 - Walter Baade was born (d. 25 Jun 1960). German astronomer.
• 1897 - Wilhelm Reich was born (d. 1957). Austrian-born psychotherapist.
• 1898 - Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile when he buys a Winton automobile that was advertised in Scientific American.
• 1900 - June (Algeria Junius) Clark was born (d. 23 Feb 1963). Musician, trumpet.
• 1900 - New York City Mayor Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
• 1901 - Ub Iwerks was born (d. 1971). Dutch cartoonist.
• 1902 - Thomas Dewey was born (d. 1971). American politician.
• 1903 - Adolf Butenandt was born (d. 1995). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1939.
• 1905 - Jules Verne dies in Amiens, France. (b.1828). French sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days).
• 1905 - River Plate se afilia a la Asociación Argentina de Fútbol .
• 1909 - John Millington Synge dies (b. 1871). Playwright.
• 1909 - Clyde Barrow was born (d. 1934). Notorious bank robber.
• 1910 - Richard Conte was born (d. 1975). American actor.
• 1911 - In Denmark, penal code reform abolished corporal punishment.
• 1911 - Joseph Barbera was born. American cartoonist.
• 1915 - Gorgeous George was born (d. 1963). American professional wrestler.
• 1916 - Donald Hamilton was born. Swedish-American novelist.
• 1917 - John Kendrew was born (d. 1997). British molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1917 - Nascimento de Krafft Arnold Ehricke (morreu em 11 Dez 1984). Físico alemão-americano foi um dos principais teoristas que criaram os foguetes para viajar no espaço.
• 1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born. American author and publisher.
• 1919 - Robert Heilbroner was born (d. 2005). American economist.
• 1921 - Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho dies. Portuguese writer / Morreu a escritora portuguesa Maria Amália Vaz de Carvalho .
• 1921 - Nascimento de Vassily Vassilievich Smyslov, em Moscovo, Rússi. Campeão Mundial de Xadrez em 1957.
• 1923 - Kermit Schafer was born (d. 1979). Humorist.
• 1923 - Murray Hamilton was born (d. 1986). American actor
• 1923 - Greece becomes a republic.
• 1924 - Norman Fell was born (d. 1998). American actor.
• 1926 - Dario Fo was born in Lago Maggiore, Italy. Author, 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1927 - Martin Walser was born. German author.
• 1928 - Byron Janis was born. American pianist.
• 1929 - Em Itália, o Partido Fascista venceu as eleições.
• 1930 - Steve McQueen was born (d. 1980). American actor, director and producer.
• 1930 - David Dacko was born (d. 2003). First President of the Central African Republic.
• 1934 - U.S. Congress passes Tydings-McDuffie Act.
• 1935 - Peter Bichsel was born. Swiss writer .
• 1936 - David Suzuki was born. Canadian environmentalist.
• 1938 - Holger Czukay was born. German musician (Can)
• 1938 - David Irving was born. British historian
• 1940 - Bob Mackie was born. Costume designer.
• 1940 - Muere en Buenos Aires el educador Pablo A. Pizzurno. Es autor de "La educación en la Capital", "Deficiencias de la educación argentina", "Ciencias naturales" y del libro de lectura "Pininos" para la enseñanza primaria. Nació en Buenos Aires el 11 de julio de 1865.
• 1941 - Nascimento de Joseph H. Taylor Jr.- Radioastrônomo e físico americano que, com Russell A. Hulse recebeu o Prêmio Nobel para Física em 1993 pela descoberta em comum do primeiro pulsar binário (1974).
• 1942 - Muere el doctor Manuel Balado, iniciador de la neurocirugía argentina.
• 1944 - Ardeatine Caves massacre. In occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans, who the day before killed 32 [33] German soldiers [policemen].
• 1944 - Tragedy in the Polish village Markowa.
• 1944 - In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin to break out of Stalag Luft III.
• 1944 - R. Lee Ermey was born. American actor.
• 1944 - Orde Wingat dies (b. 1903). British soldier.
• 1945 - With the debut of the Billboard magazine pop album chart, American pianist and singer Nat King Cole's King Cole Trio became the first record album to appear at No. 1.
• 1945 - Robert T. Bakker was born. American paleontologist.
• 1945 - Curtis Hanson was born. American film director.
• 1946 - Alexander Alekhine dies (b. 1892). Chess champion.
• 1949 - The 21st Academy Awards. "Hamlet", produced by Lawrence Olivier, won Best Picture of 1948. Olivier also was pronounced Best Actor for his portrayal of Hamlet. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" won three Oscars and was the first time a father and son both won Academy Awards on the same night. Walter Huston was awarded an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and his son, John, received honors for Best Director and for Best Screenplay (based on a B. Traven story). Other winners that night: Jane Wyman for Best Actress (film: "Johnny Belinda"); Claire Trevor for Best Supporting Actress (film: "Key Largo"); Jay Livingston and Ray Evans for Best Music/Song ("Buttons and Bows" from the Bob Hope/Jane Russell flick, "The Paleface").
• 1949 - Nick Lowe was born. English musician .
• 1950 - James Rudolph Garfield dies (b. 1865). American plitician
• 1951 - Tommy Hilfiger was born. American fashion designer.
• 1953 - Louie Anderson was born. American comedian.
• 1953 - Mary of Teck dies. Wife of King George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867) .
• 1954 - Irina Ratushinskaya was born in Odessa, Ukraine. Dissident poet (Beyond the Limit) .
• 1954 - Robert Carradine was born. American actor (Revenge of the NerdsLizzie McGuire).
• 1954 - Donna Pescow was born. American actress.
• 1955 - Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens on Broadway for 694 performances .
• 1959 - The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
• 1959 - Iraqi leader Abd-al-Karim announced that his country was withdrawing from the Baghdad Pact.
• 1960 - Nascimento de João Moura (João António Romão de Moura) em Monforte. Cavaleiro Tauromáquico português.
• 1960 - Nena was born. German singer.
• 1962 - Star Jones Reynolds was born. American television personality.
• 1962 - Jean Goldkette dies (b.1899). Jazz musician.
• 1962 - Auguste Piccard dies (b. 28 Jan 1884).Physicist and explorer.
• 1963 - Pedro de Freitas Branco dies. Portuguese conductor.
• 1964 - Annabella Sciorra was born. American actress
• 1965 - NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brought images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing.
• 1965 - The Undertaker was born. American professional wrestler
• 1966 - Tatjana Patitz was born in Hamburg. German model and actress (Rising Sun).
• 1969 - Fallecimiento de Renato Cesarini. Mitolológico jugador de Chacarita Juniors, que desarrolló gran parte de su campaña en su Italia natal. Como entrenador hizo escuela en River, creando la famosa "Máquina" junto a Carlos Peucelle.
• 1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle was born. American actress (The Practice) .
• 1970 - Sharon Corr was born. Irish musician ("The Corrs") .
• 1972 - The United Kingdom imposes "Direct Rule" over Northern Ireland.
• 1972 - Cristobal Balenciaga dies. Couturier .
• 1973 - Kenyan track runner Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, sanctioned by the International Track Association.
• 1973 - Rock band Pink Floyd releases Dark Side of the Moon, which will go on to become one of the most influential and commercially successful albums of all-time. [Note from Nothingandall postmaster : This was the first music record i have ever bought].
• 1974 - Alyson Hannigan was born. American actress .
• 1974 - Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot).
• 1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 to retain the heavyweight boxing title
• 1975 - Ivo Andric dies (b. 1892). Croatian writer.
• 1976 - Bernard Montgomery dies (b. 1887). British Field Marshal.
• 1976 - Argentina's military forces depose president Isabel Perón.
• 1976 - Peyton Manning was born. American football player.
• 1976 - Aaron Brooks was born. American football player.
• 1977 - Rodolfo Walsh escribe una carta abierta a la Junta Militar que gobierna a la Argentina; un día después, la dictadura lo asesina.
• 1980 - Archbishop of El Salvador Óscar Romero (b. 1917) is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. Thirty people were killed by bombs and snipers during his funeral six days later.
• 1981 - Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba .
• 1984 - Sam Jaffe dies (b. 1891). Actor.
• 1985 - Carlos Lopes, atleta português, vence pela terceira vez o Campeonato Mundial de Corta-Mato.
• 1985 - The Golden Raspberry Awards were presented to parody the Oscar Awards. The movie, "Bolero", won the big award, for John and Bo (I’m a 10!) Derek; winning honors for worst director and worst actress, respectively.
• 1985 - Haruka Ayase was born. Japanese actress and model.
• 1986 - Van Halen releases 5150 (album). This was their first album with Sammy Hagar as lead singer.
• 1986 - The 58th Academy Awards show was held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. It took three hosts (Alan Alda, Jane Fonda and Robin Williams) to handle the MC duties this time. The Best Picture was "Out of Africa" (Sydney Pollack, producer). It also won Best Director (Sydney Pollack); Best Writing/Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Kurt Luedtke); Best Cinematography (David Watkin); Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Stephen B. Grimes, Josie MacAvin); Best Sound (Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold, Peter Handford); and Best Music/Original Score (John Barry). Other Oscars went to "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (Best Actor: William Hurt); "The Trip to Bountiful" (Best Actress: Geraldine Page); "Cocoon" (Best Supporting Actor: Don Ameche - his first Oscar) and "Prizzi’s Honor" (Best Supporting Actress: Anjelica Huston). The award for Best Music/Song was given to Lionel Richie for "Say You, Say Me" from "White Nights".
• 1987 - 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win .
• 1989 - Em Portugal o governo concede 79 alvarás de rádio, começando o movimento de legalização das rádios locais.
• 1989 - Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m³) of oil after running aground.
• 1990 - An Wang dies (b. 1920). Computer pioneer.
• 1990 - Keisha Castle-Hughes was born. New Zealand-born actress .
• 1991 - 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane and Ghosts Can't Do It wins .
• 1991 - The World Wrestling Federation presents the stars and stripes WrestleMania VII in Los Angeles, California, renacting the Gulf War in a wrestling ring.
• 1992 - Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space .
• 1993 - Ezer Weizman elected President of Israel .
• 1993 - John Hersey dies (b. 1914). Author.
• 1994 - Luis Donaldo Colosio dies assassinated. Mexican politician.
• 1994 - F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in North Carolina, 120 die .
• 1994 - O vírus da Hepatite C foi identificado por um grupo de cientistas japoneses .
• 1995 - Portugal: O Governo e a Lusoponte assinam um contrato para a construção da nova ponte sobre o Tejo — Ponte Vasco da Gama — entre as localidades de Sacavém e Montijo.
• 1995 - O filme O Paciente Inglês, de Anthony Minghella, é premiado com nove óscares, incluindo os de melhor filme e melhor realizador
• 1997 - The Australian parliament overturned the world's first euthanasia law.
• 1998 - Jonesboro massacre: In Jonesboro, Arkansas, two boys (aged 11 and 13 years) fire upon students at Westside Middle School. Four students and one teacher are killed and 10 injured.
• 1998 - D. António Ribeiro dies. Portuguese cardinal, 15th Patriarch Cardinal of Lisbon.
• 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia. This marks the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
• 1999 - In Kenya, at least 31 people were killed when a passenger train derailed. Hundreds were injured.
• 1999 - In Congo a massacre of 250 people in the Kivu region was reported. The slayings by Rwandan troops appeared to be in retaliation for earlier attacks by Congolese Mai Mai tribesmen.
• 1999 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink dies (b. 1902). German Women's leader during Germany's Third Reich.
• 1999 - Birdie Tebbetts dies. Major League Baseball catcher and manager (b. 1912) .
• 2001 - Apple Computer releases Mac OS X version 10.0.
• 2002 - Film stars Denzel Washington and Halle Berry became the second and third African Americans to win Academy Awards for performances in leading roles.
• 2002 - Thieves stole five 17th century paintings from the Frans Hals Museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The paintings were worth about $2.6 million. The paintings were works by Jan Steen, Cornelis Bega, Adriaan van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart.
• 2002 - César Milstein dies (b. 1927). Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• 2003 - Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi TV telling his nation that "victory is soon."
• 2003 - The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of US and British soldiers from Iraq.
• 2003 - Hans Hermann Groër diesm (b. 1919). Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (1986 - 1995) .
• 2005 - Lord's Memorial of Jehovah's Witnesses - meeting for celebrating Jesus' death after sunset.
• 2005 - American Release of Sony PlayStation Portable .
• World Tuberculosis Day / Dia Mundial da Tuberculose.