1603: After 44 years of rule, Queen Elizabeth I of England died. The English and Scottish crowns were united when James VI of Scotland became King James 1st of England.
1707: The Acts of Union 1707 was signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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1837: Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote.
1853: The Provincial Freeman Anti-slavery newspaper was first published in Ontario, Canada. The publisher, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, became the first black female publisher in North America.
1882: Robert Koch discovers the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
The German scientist, who is regarded as the father of modern bacteriology, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1905. At this time in history, TB killed one in every seven people in the US & Europe, and Koch’s find went on to help control the disease.
1896: Aleksander Popov achieves the world’s first radio transmission. The Russian physicist transmitted the words “Heinrich Hertz” from one building of St. Petersburg University to another.
1921: The world’s first international women’s sporting event began in Monaco. The Women’s Olympiad was a five-day multi-sport event in Monte Carlo at the International Sporting Club of Monaco. One hundred sportswomen from five nations participated in ten different sporting events.
1958: Elvis Presley enlisted in the US army.
1987: The first Soul Train Music Awards took place in Santa Monica, California, US.
Winners included Janet Jackson, Run-DMC, Cameo, and Gregory Abbott.
1989: Oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The mishap resulted in one of the most devastating environmental disasters in history, killing up to 250,000 seabirds and other wildlife.
1999: For the first time in its history, NATO attacks a sovereign country
The military alliance bombed Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War – without a UN mandate.
1965: Millions watch NASA spacecraft Ranger 9 crash into the Moon. The U.S. space probe broadcast live pictures back to Earth, enabling TV viewers to follow its approach to the Moon and its controlled crash.
1976: Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup headed by Jorge Rafael Videla.
2002: Halle Berry becomes the first Black woman to win the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of a struggling widow who falls in love with her husband’s death row executioner in Monster’s Ball.
2010: Most of Nigeria was shrouded in a thick dust storm, disrupting air travel and threatening to trigger respiratory problems.
2017: Five hundred and sixty people dressed as ghosts, to get a world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as ghosts.
Births on This Day, March 24
Erik Weisz : (24 March 1874 – 31 October 1926)
Erik Weisz, known as Harry Houdini, was a Hungarian-American escape artist, illusionist, and stunt performer, noted for his escape acts. His pseudonym is a reference to his mentor in magic, French magician Robert-Houdin. He was Aged 52 when he died.
The Undertaker, 59
Mark William Calaway, better known by his ring name The Undertaker, is an American retired professional wrestler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Calaway spent the vast majority of his career wrestling for WWE and in 2022 was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
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