March 24 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for March 24
In the headlines today:

1999	Fire and smoke kill 39 motorists trapped inside France's Mont Blanc tunnel.
1999	NATO begins airstrikes against Yugoslavia.
1989	The supertanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, leaking 11 million gallons of crude oil.
1976	Argentine president Isabel Peron is ousted in a military coup.
1964	The first JFK half dollars are minted.
1958		Singer Elvis Presley is inducted into the US Army. (photo credit: BMG)
1955	The Tennessee Williams play, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, opens on Broadway.
1953	England's Queen Mary, wife of King George V, dies.
1934	President Roosevelt signs a bill granting independence to the Philippines, effective in 1945.
1905	French science fiction author Jules Verne dies.
1898	Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies.
1883	Long distance telephone service between New York and Chicago begins.
1882	Discovery of the tuberculosis germ is announced by Professor Robert Koch, in Berlin.
1783	Spain recognizes US independence.
1603	Queen Elizabeth I of England dies.