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2018 (Saturday) 2017 (Friday) 2016 (Thursday) 2015 (Tuesday) March 24 is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ; 282 days remain until the end of the year.
1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith. 1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed. 1900 - New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. 1934 - U.S. Congress passes Tydings–McDuffie Act.
1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.
March 1, 1964 (Sunday) Eighty-five people were killed when Paradise Airlines Flight 901 crashed into a mountain in while on its way to Tahoe Valley, California, a ski resort town across the border from casinos in Nevada. Wreckage of the plane, a propeller-driven Lockheed Constellation, was located the next day on an 8,700-foot (2,700 m) ridge ...
Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of rock's landmark albums, was released in the U.S.; sale in the UK began on March 24. [1]U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Cleo A. Noel Jr., and his chargé d'affaires, Curtis Moore, were kidnapped and murdered by terrorists from the Palestinian group Black September Organization, in an attack on the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1944. 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1944th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 944th year of the 2nd millennium, the 44th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1940s decade.
March 28, 1954 (Sunday) Puerto Rico's first television station, WKAQ-TV, commenced broadcasting. The trial of A. L. Zissu and 12 other Zionist leaders ended with harsh sentences in Communist Romania. The British troopship HMT Empire Windrush suffered an engine-room explosion and fire. Four crew were killed but 1494 crew and passengers were saved.
1861 – Nevada Territory and Dakota Territory are organized as political divisions of the United States.; 1901 – Congress passes the Platt Amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops.