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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 24 March.

1. Britain enacts Quartering Act
2. Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF - 89 days out of NY
3. British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
4. German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
5. 37 miners die at Franklin - Wash
6. FDR grants future independence to Philippines
7. Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 9th period. 176 minute games is hockey's longest
8. In occupied Rome - Nazis executed more than 300 civilians
9. 1st oil drill seagoing rig placed in service
10. Tennessee Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway
11. Elvis Presley inducted into Army in Memphis Tenn
12. US Ranger 9 strikes moon 10 miles NE of crater Alphonsus
13. Great Britain imposed direct rule over N Ireland
14. Argentine pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's milt
15. Salvadoran death squads assassinate Archbishop Oscar Romero
16. Nightline with Ted Koppel premiers
17. US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra

These famous people were born on 24 March.

1. 1755 - Rufus King, (F), framer of US constitution, sen
2. 1834 - John Wesley Powell, geologist
3. 1834 - William Morris, Engl, artist
4. 1855 - Andrew W. Mellon, financier
5. 1874 - Harry Houdini, escape artist
6. 1884 - Peter Debye, Dutch physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
7. 1902 - Thomas E Dewey, Oh, Pres candidate
8. 1903 - Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer
9. 1925 - Norman Fell, (Mr Roper - 3s Company)
10. 1929 - Roger Bannister, English runner; 1st 4-min mile
11. 1930 - Steve McQueen, Actor
12. 1938 - Larry Wilson, NFL back (Cardinals)
13. 1940 - Bob Mackie, designer
14. 1954 - Robert Carradine
15. 1959 - Renaldo Nehemiah, track star