Historical Events for 28th March 2024

1860 – First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins in New Zealand
1957 – 1st National Curling Championship held
1979 – British government of Prime Minister Jim Callaghan (Labour Party) falls
1982 – JN Duartes’ Christian Democrats win elections in El Salvador
1990 – Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game
1997 – “City” soap opera’s final episode on ABC-TV
2009 – The first cases of H1N1 swine flu in the United States occur in two people in California
2014 – Russia increases the price of gas to Ukraine by 80%
2019 – European parliament bans single-use plastics, including cutlery and straws by 2021
2022 – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs so called “Don’t Say Gay” bill limiting LGBTQ classroom instruction

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Historical Events for 27th March 2024

1668 – English King Charles II grants Royal Charter giving control of Bombay, India to the English East India Company
1936 – 95th Grand National: Fulke Walwyn scores back-to-back GN victories aboard Reynoldstown at 10/1
1953 – 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut, Ohio
1964 – The Great Alaska Earthquake (9.2 magnitude) and resulting tsunami kill 139 people in the largest US earthquake and second largest ever recorded
1972 – Ulster Vanguard organise industrial strike against the imposition of direct rule on Northern Ireland by Westminster
1972 – Venera 8 launches to explore Venus
1991 – New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
1994 – Nabisco Dinah Shore Women’s Golf, Mission Hills CC: Donna Andrews wins her only major title by 1 over British runner-up Laura Davies; Andrews birdies final hole while Davies makes bogey.
2019 – US Special Council Robert S. Mueller writes a letter to US Attorney William Barr regarding Barr’s summary of the Mueller Report stating Barr’s letter “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the findings. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.”
2023 – At least 40 people are killed and 28 injured in a fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez on the Mexican US border, amid large numbers of migrants gathering on the Mexican border

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Historical Events for 26th March 2024

1808 – Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII
1845 – Joseph Francis from NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
1845 – Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band-aid
1903 – American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1910 – William H. Lewis appointed US Assistant Attorney General
1951 – United States Air Force flag officially adopted by President Harry S. Truman
1956 – Red Buttons stars as an angel on TV anthology series “Studio One” episode “Tale of St. Emergency”
1970 – Folk singer Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) pleads guilty to “taking immoral liberties” with a 14-year-old girl and serves 3 months in prison; granted a presidential pardon in 1981
1970 – The Police (Northern Ireland) Act becomes law; the act provides for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force
2018 – US, European Union and Ukraine expel more than 100 Russian diplomats in response to Russian use of nerve gas in UK

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Historical Events for 25th March 2024

1305 – Consecration of the Scrovegni Chapel (Arena Chapel) in Padua, Italy, with fresco masterpiece by Florentine painter Giotto
1581 – Portuguese Cortes (King’s Court) calls Philip II King of Portugal, further legitimatizing his rule
1865 – SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire and sinks, killing 400
1900 – US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
1972 – “Selling of the President” closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 performances
1979 – Czech tennis star Martina Navratilova retains her WTA Tour Championship with a 6–3, 3–6, 6–2 win over American teenager Tracey Austin in NYC
1986 – Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
1988 – “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas is released
2003 – Capitol/Nashville Records releases “Rules of Travel”, the tenth studio album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash; produced by husband John Leventhal, it includes a duet with her father Johnny Cash
2020 – Spain’s death toll from COVID-19 overtakes China’s at 3,434 to become then second worldwide behind Italy with 7,503 deaths with a worldwide toll of 20,836

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Historical Events for 24th March 2024

1877 – University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1972 – Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
1980 – Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks on the LP “Rarites”
1981 – Bombay beat Delhi by innings and 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
1982 – US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1987 – 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross win
1990 – Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
1996 – MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
1997 – 69th Academy Awards: “The English Patient”, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win
2015 – Germanwings flight on route between Barcelona and Düsseldorf crashes in the French Alps killing all 150 on board

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Historical Events for 23rd March 2024

1752 – Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, dies 2 days later
1861 – London’s 1st tramcars, designed by Mr Train of NY, begins operating
1931 – Indian independence fighters Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged after conducting an assassination and a bombing. Their request to be shot by a firing squad is refused.
1933 – Kroll Opera in Berlin opens
1950 – “Great to Be Alive” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 performances
1980 – PGA Tournament Players Championship, Sawgrass Country Club (Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida): Lee Trevino wins by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Ben Crenshaw
1981 – US Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
1988 – Geffen Records releases “Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm”, Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell’s 13th studio album
2019 – More than 130 Fulani people killed in Ogossagou, Mali, in attack by Dogon hunters, prompting government ban on the hunters
2023 – Canada records record population growth (+2.7%), adding 1 million people in 2022, mostly through immigration

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Historical Events for 22nd March 2024

1917 – The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia
1927 – Federico Garcia Lorca’s first play “El Maleficio” (The Butterfly’s Evil Spell) premieres in Madrid
1944 – American movie star James Stewart flies his 12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin
1957 – “All Shook Up” single released by Elvis Presley
1958 – 20th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Seattle, 84-72; Seattle’s future Hall of Fame small forward Elgin Baylor is named tournament MOP
1968 – Student riot in Nanterre near Paris
1986 – Ice Pairs World Championship at Geneva won by Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov (USSR)
1991 – Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginaa, seizing drugs
2021 – World’s largest painting “The Journey of Humanity” by British artist Sacha Jafri sells in Dubai for $62m to raise funds for children’s charities
2023 – Microsoft founder Bill Gates says development of artificial intelligence (AI) is the most important technological advance since the graphical user interface (GUI) in 1980

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Historical Events for 21st March 2024

1864 – Battle at Henderson’s Hill (Bayou Rapids) Louisiana
1961 – The Beatles’ first appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool
1962 – Philadelphia Phillies retire pitcher Robin Roberts’ # 36
1973 – Montreal Canadiens’ left wing Frank Mahovlich becomes 5th NHL player to score 500 goals
1982 – Movie “Annie” directed by John Huston, starring Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney and Carol Burnett premieres
1997 – Ice Dance Championship in Lausanne, Switzerland won by Oksana Grishuk and Evgeny Platov (Rus)
2018 – English TV presenter Ant McPartlin charged with drink driving following an accident in London
2019 – New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces a ban on military-style semiautomatic weapons, 6 days after the Christchurch terrorist attack
2019 – Former Brazilian President Michel Temer is arrested in São Paulo as part of a large corruption investigation
2022 – Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador inaugurates Felipe Angeles International Airport to serve Mexico City

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Historical Events for 20th March 2024

1648 – King Charles I of England first tries to escape captivity at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight by climbing out a window – but gets stuck
1819 – London’s famous Burlington Arcade opens, the world’s 1st shopping arcade
1911 – Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway NYC
1934 – American all-round female super athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias pitches a hitless inning for Philadelphia A’s in their exhibition pre-season baseball game against Brooklyn Dodgers
1940 – Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
1947 – 180 tonne blue whale (record) caught in South Atlantic
1957 – Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it
1996 – UK admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease)
2019 – Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts calls the state’s flooding “the most widespread destruction we have ever seen in our state’s history”
2022 – Intense fighting in Ukrainian city of Mariupol continues as Russian forces encircle the city, trapping 300,000 people

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Historical Events for 19th March 2024

1571 – Spanish troops occupy Manila
1799 – Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “The Creation” (“Die Schöpfung”) fisrt public performance premieres at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria
1917 – US Supreme Court uphoelds 8-hr work day for railroad employees
1938 – Scotland beats England, 21-16 at Twickenham, London to win the Home Nations Rugby Championship, Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup
1942 – Thoroughbred Racing Association of US formed in Chicago
1945 – Adolf Hitler issues “Nero Decree” to destroy all German factories
1965 – Rembrandt’s “Titus” sells for then record 7,770,000 guilders
1978 – 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against neutron bomb
1989 – Men’s Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1997 – Ice Pairs won by Mandy Woetzel and Ingo Steuer (GER)

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