Today in History (24th March)

1989 Exxon Valdez runs aground

American Revolution
1765 Parliament passes the Quartering Act

Automotive
2007 Ferrari’s around-the-world relay stops in L.A.

Civil War
1862 Wendall Phillips booed in Cincinnati

Cold War
1977 United States and Cuba engage in direct negotiations

Crime
1998 A school shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas, kills five

Disaster
1989 Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska
2015 Germanwings pilot intentionally crashes plane, killing 150 people

General Interest
1603 Queen Elizabeth I dies
1996 Shannon Lucid enters Mir
1999 NATO bombs Yugoslavia

Hollywood
2002 Halle Berry, Denzel Washington triumph at Oscars

Literary
1955 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens

Music
1958 Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army

Old West
1834 John Wesley Powell born

Presidential
1949 Truman signs off on aid to Palestine

Sports
1976 Peyton Manning born

Vietnam War
1965 First teach-in conducted
1975 North Vietnamese launch “Ho Chi Minh Campaign”

World War I
1918 German forces cross the Somme River

World War II
1944 Wingate dies in Burma