TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 24
1208 King John of England opposes Innocent III on his nomination for Archbishop of Canterbury.
1603 Queen Elizabeth I dies which will bring into power James VI of Scotland.
1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1663 Charles II of England awards land known as Carolina in North America to eight members of the nobility who assisted in his restoration.
1664 In London, Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island.
1765 Britain passes the Quartering Act, requiring the colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings.
1832 Mormon Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.
1837 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote
1862 Abolitionist Wendell Phillips speaks to a crowd about emancipation in Cincinnati, Ohio and is pelted by eggs.
1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis ( Mycobacterium tuberculosis)
1900 Mayor Van Wyck of New York breaks ground for the New York subway tunnel that will link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1938 The United States asks that all powers help refugees fleeing from the Nazis.
1944 The Gestapo rounds up innocent Italians in Rome and shoots them to death in reprisal for a bomb attack that killed 33 German policemen.
1947 Congress proposes limiting the United States presidency to two terms.
1949 President Harry S. Truman authorizes $16 million in aid for Palestinian refugees displaced and facing starvation as a result of Israel’s War of Independence in 1948.
1954 Nash Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company merged to form the American Motors Corporation ( AMC ).
1955 The first oil drill seagoing rig was put into service
1958 Elvis Presley trades in his guitar for a rifle and Army fatigues.
1965 Millions watch NASA spacecraft Ranger 9 crash into the Moon
1965 The Freedom Marchers, citizens for civil rights, reach Montgomery, Alabama.
1976 The president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country’s military.
1988 Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pled innocent to Iran-Contra charges.
1989 The Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker, spills 240,000 barrels of oil in Alaska’s Prince William Sound.
1995 The U.S. House of Representatives passed a welfare reform package that made the most changes in social programs since the New Deal.
1998 Mitchell Johnson ( 13 yrs old ) and Andrew Golden ( 11 Years Old ) shoot and kill four fellow students and a teacher and nine other students and a teacher were wounded in Jonesboro, Arkansas. These boys were in a middle school and had set off the fire alarm and set up in the woods overlooking the school with two semi-automatic rifles, one bolt-action rifle and four handguns.
1999 NATO planes, including stealth aircraft, attack Serbian forces in Kosovo.
2004 The notorious Bird family’s more than half-century stronghold on the nation of Antigua and Barbuda came to an end when Baldwin Spencer won the post of prime minister in the general election.
2006 A Pentagon report that Moscow gave Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein intelligence on U.S. troop movements after the 2003 invasion of Iraq has been published.
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