On this day: 24 March
Events, births and deaths on 24 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Johan Cruyff
- Deaths · Garry Shandling
100 years ago1926
- Births · Dario Fo
- Births · Desmond Connell
- Births · William Porter
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1103 · Births · Yue Fei
Events · 27
- 1603Tokugawa shogunate — 1603–1868 Japanese military government
- 1603Union of the Crowns — personal union of the kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland from 1603
- 1663Province of Carolina — British province in North America and the Caribbean (1663–1712)
- 1794Kościuszko Uprising — 1794 failed rebellion against the second partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- 1860Sakuradamon Incident — 1860 assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke
- 1927Nanking incident of 1927 — 1927 anti-foreigner riots in Nanking
- 19391939 Liechtenstein putsch — Failed 1939 coup attempt in Liechtenstein
- 1944Ardeatine massacre — mass killing carried out by Nazi troops in Rome, 1944
- 1949All-China Women’s Federation — women's organization in China
- 1964flag of Prince Edward Island — flag of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island
- 1976National Reorganization Process — 1976–1983 Argentine military dictatorship
- 19761976 Argentine coup d'état — March 1976 military coup d'état in Argentina
- 19821982 Bangladesh coup d'état — Bangladeshi coup
- 19881988 Shanghai train collision — railway accident
- 1989Exxon Valdez disaster — oil spill
- 1998Westside Middle School Shooting — 1998 school shooting
- 1999NATO bombing of Yugoslavia — March–June 1999 NATO military operation
- 1999fire of the Mont Blanc tunnel — disaster caused by a vehicle fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel that killed 39 people
- 2001macOS — operating system for Apple computers
- 200274th Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 2001
- 2006Hannah Montana — American television series
- 2008
- 20082008 Bhutanese National Assembly election — election
- 2015Germanwings Flight 9525 — deliberate crash of an Airbus A320 in the French Alps on March 24, 2015
- 2018March for Our Lives — 2018 and 2022 student-led demonstration in Washington, DC
- 20232023 Rolling Fork–Silver City tornado — 2023 EF4 tornado in Mississippi
- 2024
Births · 60
- 1494(Julian date)
- 1607Michiel de Ruyter — Dutch admiral (1607-1676)
- 1693(Julian date)John Harrison — British clockworker
- 1809Joseph Liouville — French mathematician and engineer (1809–1882)
- 1809Mariano José de Larra — Spanish romantic writer (1809-1837)
- 1820Edmond Becquerel — French physicist (1820-1891)
- 1826Matilda Joslyn Gage — American writer, Native American civil rights activist, abolitionist, freethinker
- 1834William Morris — textile designer, artist, writer, printer (1834–1896)
- 1834John Wesley Powell — American geologist (1834-1902)
- 1835Josef Stefan — Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (1835-1893)
- 1855Olive Schreiner — South African author and pacifist (1855-1920)
- 1874Harry Houdini — Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer (1874–1926)
- 1874Luigi Einaudi — (1874-1961) President of Italy from 1948 to 1955
- 1884Peter Debye — Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist (1884–1966)
- 1887Roscoe Arbuckle — American actor, director and comedian
- 1891Sergey Vavilov — Soviet physicist
- 1893Walter Baade — German astronomer (1893–1960)
- 1897Wilhelm Reich — Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897–1957)
- 1901Ub Iwerks — American animator and special effects pioneer (1901–1971)
- 1903Adolf Butenandt — German biochemist (1903-1995)
- 1911Joseph Barbera — American animator and cartoonist (1911–2006)
- 1917John Kendrew — English biochemist and crystallographer (1917–1997)
- 1919Lawrence Ferlinghetti — American artist, writer and activist (1919–2021)
- 1921Vasily Smyslov — Soviet chess grandmaster (1921–2010)
- 1926Dario Fo — Italian actor, playwright, comedian, singer-songwriter, theater director, painter, and political activist (1926-2016)
Deaths · 60
- 809(Julian date)Harun al-Rashid — 5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)
- 1284(Julian date)Hugh III of Cyprus — King of Cyprus (r. 1267-1284) and King of Jerusalem (r. 1268-1284)
- 1381Catherine of Vadstena — Swedish noblewoman (c.1332–1381)
- 1455(Julian date)Nicholas V — pope of the Catholic Church from 1447 to 1455
- 1575(Julian date)Joseph ben Ephraim Karo — Spanish rabbi and author on Jewish law (1488–1575)
- 1602Ii Naomasa — daimyō
- 1603(Julian date)Elizabeth I of England — Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 to 1603 (1533-1603)
- 1654Samuel Scheidt — German composer, organist and teacher (1587-1654)
- 1684Pieter de Hooch — Dutch Golden Age painter (1629-1684)
- 1773Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield — 18th-century British statesman and man of letters; (1694-1773)
- 1776John Harrison — British clockworker
- 1860Ii Naosuke — daimyo (1815-1860)
- 1866Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily — Queen consort of the French from 1830 to 1848
- 1869Antoine-Henri Jomini — French-Swiss officer who served as a general with the French and Russian armies and writer on the art of war (1779-1869)
- 1882
- 1887(Julian date)Ivan Kramskoi — Russian artist (1837-1887)
- 1888(Julian date)Vsevolod Garshin — Russian author of short stories (1855-1888)
- 1905Jules Verne — French writer (1828–1905)
- 1909John Millington Synge — Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore (1871-1909)
- 1915Margaret Lindsay Huggins — Irish astronomer (1848–1915)
- 1915Karol Olszewski — Polish scientist (1846–1915)
- 1916Enrique Granados — Spanish pianist and composer (1867–1916)
- 1932Frantz Reichel — French athlete (1871–1932)
- 1940Édouard Branly — French physicist (1844-1940)
- 1944Orde Wingate — British Army officer, creator of the Chindit mission in World War II (1903–1944)
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