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March 24Copyright 1989-2007 epicidiot.com
2003 Iraq War: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on weapons of mass destruction: "We have seen intelligence over many months that they have chemical and biological weapons, and that they have dispersed them and that they're weaponized and that, in one case at least, the command and control arrangements have been established."
1989 Valdez disaster: An Exxon tanker spills more than 10,000,000 gallons of oil. This was the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
1958 Elvis Presley: The King of Rock 'n' Roll is inducted into the U.S. Army, where he took an approximate $100,000 pay cut.
1940 First religious TV broadcast: W2XBS of New York City airs an Easter service. (Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church)
1934 Congress grants independence to the Philippines with the passing of the Tydings-McDuffie Act. The Philippine legislature approved it in May and independence was proclaimed in 1946.
1900 Carnegie Steel Company is incorporated, in New Jersey.
1898 Only U.S. Battleship not named for a State: The USS Kearsarge (BB-5) is launched.
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1880 Salvation Army - First U.S. post: George Scott Railton and 7 women volunteers establish a branch of the organization which had been started in England by William Booth in 1865. (Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church)
1663 The Carolina Colony is created by a grant from King Charles I.
1970 Lara Flynn Boyle, actress. TV: Twin Peaks (Donna Hayward).
1954 Robert Carradine, American actor. Film: Revenge of the Nerds (1984).
1954 Donna Pescow, American actress. TV: All My Children (child psychologist Lynn Carson), Out of This World (Donna Garland).
1930 d. 1980 Steve McQueen, American actor. Film: The Blob (1958) and The Great Escape (1963).
1924 Norman Fell, American actor. TV: Three's Company (Mr. Roper).
1909 d. 1934 Clyde Barrow, American bank robber, of Bonnie and Clyde fame. He and Bonnie Parker were killed by a Texas ranger and his posse, who riddled their car with hundreds of bullets.
1902 d. 1971 Thomas E. Dewey, American politician. As governor of New York, he enacted the nation's first state law banning racial and religious discrimination in employment. His loss of the 1948 presidential election to Truman surprised many, including the newspapers.
1901 d. 1971 Ub Iwerks, American Oscar-winning animator, one the original artists for Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse (1928). He supervised the animation and special effects of numerous Disney films.
1890 d. 1984 John C. Rock, American physician. He and Mirian Menkin achieved the first in vitro fertilization of a human ovum (1944) and he co-developed the birth control pill (1956).
1887 d. 1933 Fatty Arbuckle (Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle), American actor, director.
1874 d. 1926 Harry Houdini (Ehrich Weiss), American magician, escape artist, "The Handcuff King." He also made Australia's first successful airplane flight.
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1855 d. 1937 Andrew William Mellon, American financier. He donated his art collection for the establishment of the National Gallery of Art.
1820 d. 1915 Fanny Crosby (Frances Jane Crosby), American hymn writer. Blind since an infant, she composed over 5,000 hymns including Safe in the Arms of Jesus, Blessed Assurance, and To God Be the Glory. (Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church)
1809 d. 1882 Joseph Liouville, French mathematician. He discovered the first proof of transcendental numbers (1844).
1494 d. 1555 Georgius Agricola, German scholar, the "Father of Mineralogy." His writings served as a guide for metallurgist for over 200 years.
1993 b. 1914 John Hersey, Chinese-born American Pulitzer-winning author, journalist, A Bell for Adano (1944, Pulitzer).
1962 b. 1884 Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, pioneer in ballooning and diving vehicles, and identical twin of Jean Felix. He and his twin established many records, including the highest ascent into the stratosphere and lowest descent into the ocean.
1946 b. 1892 Aleksandr Alekhine, Russian chess master, world champion (1927-35, 1937-46).
1905 b. 1828 Jules Verne, French science fiction author. Writings: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
1882 b. 1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet. Writings: The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858).
1661 b. ???? William Leddra, American Quaker. He was the last Quaker executed in Boston. He was hanged for returning to Boston after banishment, which for Quakers was punishable by death. (Source: An Almanac of the Christian Church)
1603 b. 1533 Elizabeth I, Queen of England, and for whom the Elizabethan Era is named.
1455 b. ???? Nicholas V, religious leader, 208th Pope (1447-55).
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