What Happened on March 24th in History
30 historical events on this date
The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, becoming the first international women's sports event.
The 1921 Women's Olympiad Olympiades FĂ©minines and Jeux Olympiques FĂ©minins was the first international women's sports event, a 5-day multi-sport event organised by Alice Milliat and held on 24â31...
The McMahon killings take place in Belfast. Six Catholic civilians are shot dead, two others wounded and a female family member assaulted. Police were suspected as being responsible, but no one was prosecuted.
The McMahon killings or the McMahon murders occurred on 24 March 1922 when six Catholic civilians were shot dead at the home of the McMahon family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A group of police...
Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defence of the foreign citizens within the city.
The Nanking Incident, also known as the Nanking Outrage or Nanking Massacre, occurred in March 1927 during the capture of Nanjing by the National Revolutionary Army (NRA) of the Kuomintang in their...
The TydingsâMcDuffie Act is passed by the United States Congress, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
The Philippine Independence Act, or TydingsâMcDuffie Act, is an Act of Congress that established the process for the Philippines, then a US territory, to become an independent country after a...
The 1939 Liechtenstein putsch takes place; approximately 40 members of the VBDL starting from Nendeln march towards Vaduz with the intention of overthrowing the government and provoking Liechtenstein's annexation into Germany.
The 1939 Liechtenstein putsch, also known as the Annexation putsch was an unsuccessful coup d'Ă©tat by the German National Movement in Liechtenstein on 24 March 1939 designed to provoke...
German troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it...
World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major...
A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
On 24 March 1946, a mission of three British Cabinet members went to British India to discuss the transfer of power from the British government to the Indian political leadership with the aim of...
Hanns Albin Rauter, a chief SS and Police Leader in the Netherlands, is convicted and executed for crimes against humanity.
Johann Baptist Albin Rauter was a high-ranking Austrian-born SS functionary and war criminal during the Nazi era. He was the Higher SS and Police Leader in the occupied Netherlands and therefore the...
Direct rule is imposed on Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom under Edward Heath.
In Northern Irish politics, direct rule is the administration of Northern Ireland directly by the Government of the United Kingdom. It was practised for 26 consecutive years between 1972 and 1998...
In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel PerĂłn and start a seven-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern cone of South America. It covers an area of 2,780,085Â km2 (1,073,397Â mi2), making it the second-largest country in South...
Morarji Desai becomes the prime minister of India, the first prime minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai was an Indian politician and independence activist who served as the prime minister of India between 1977 and 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. During...
El Salvadorian Archbishop Ăscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific...
Bangladeshi President Abdus Sattar is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Army Chief Lieutenant general Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who suspends the Constitution and imposes martial law.
Abdus Sattar was a Bangladeshi statesman. A leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), he served as the president of Bangladesh from 1981 to 1982, and earlier as the vice president. A jurist...
The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
Loscoe is a village near Heanor in Derbyshire, England, lying within the civil parish of Heanor and Loscoe. It had prominent coalmines in the 19th and 20th centuries. Denby Common and Codnor Breach...
In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000Â m3) of crude oil after running aground.
Prince William Sound is a sound off the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula. Its largest port is Valdez, at the...
Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with the last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.
The Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war was the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka intended to perform a peacekeeping role. The deployment followed the Indo-Sri...
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-45.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell...
Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, open fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
The 1998 Westside Middle School shooting was a mass shooting that occurred on March 24, 1998, at Westside Middle School in unincorporated Craighead County, Arkansas, near the city of Jonesboro....
A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
A tornado, also known as a twister, is a rapidly rotating column of air that extends vertically from the surface of the Earth to the base of a cumulonimbus or cumulus cloud. Tornadoes are often...
Dr. RĂŒdiger Marmulla performs the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
RĂŒdiger Marmulla is a German cranio-maxillofacial surgeon.
Kosovo War: NATO begins attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled...
A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 39 people.
On 24 March 1999, a transport truck caught fire while driving through the Mont Blanc Tunnel between France and Italy. When it stopped halfway through the tunnel, it violently combusted. Other...
Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
Bhutan, officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia, located in the Eastern Himalayas, bordering China to the north and northwest and India to the south and southeast....
Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
Germanwings Flight 9525 was a scheduled international passenger flight from BarcelonaâEl Prat Airport in Spain to DĂŒsseldorf Airport in Germany. The flight was operated by Germanwings, a low-cost...
Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive.
The Syrian civil war was an armed conflict that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale...
Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic consisting of 50 states and a federal...
An EF4 tornado strikes the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi, causing mass destruction.
On the evening of Friday, March 24, 2023, a large, violent, and long-tracked multi-vortex wedge tornado struck the Mississippi towns of Rolling Fork, Silver City, and Midnight. The tornado, known...
The 2024 Senegalese presidential election is held following anti-government protests.
Presidential elections were held in Senegal on 24 March 2024. Incumbent president Macky Sall was ineligible to pursue a third term due to term limits in the Constitution of Senegal.
OpenAI announces that their flagship Sora app and API are shutting down.
OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), partially...