1900<\/strong> – Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke the ground for the New York subway tunnel that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.<\/p>\n 1900<\/strong> – In New Jersey, the Carnegie Steel Corporation was formed.<\/p>\n 1904<\/strong> – Vice Adm. Tojo sank seven Russian ships as the Japanese strengthened their blockade of Port Arthur.<\/p>\n 1905<\/strong> – In Crete, a group led by Eleutherios Venizelos claimed independence from Turkey.<\/p>\n 1906<\/strong> – In Mexico, the Tehuantepec Isthmian Railroad opened as a rival to the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n 1906<\/strong> – The “Census of the British Empire” revealed that England ruled 1\/5 of the world.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – In Denmark, penal code reform abolished corporal punishment.<\/p>\n 1920<\/strong> – The first U.S. coast guard air station was established at Morehead City, NC.<\/p>\n 1924<\/strong> – Greece became a republic.<\/p>\n 1927<\/strong> – Chinese Communists seized Nanking and break with Chiang Kai-shek over the Nationalist goals.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show from a moving train. It was the first radio broadcast from a train.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.<\/p>\n 1938<\/strong> – The U.S. asked that all countries help refugees fleeing from the Nazis.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – In Rome, The Gestapo rounded up innocent Italians and shot them to death in response to a bomb attack that killed 32 German policemen. Over 300 civilians were executed.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – The Soviet Union announced that it was withdrawing its troops from Iran.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress proposed the limitation of the presidency to two terms.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – Britain opened trade talks with Hungary.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – Tennessee Williams’ play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” debuted on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – The first oil drill seagoing rig was put into service.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – A U.S. appeals court ruled that the novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” was not obscene and could be sent through the mail.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – Great Britain imposed direct rule over Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n 1976<\/strong> – The president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country’s military. 1980 – In San Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was shot to death by gunmen as he celebrated Mass.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – “Nightline” with Ted Koppel premiered.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – Soviet leader Leonid L. Brezhnev stated that Russia was willing to resume border talks with China.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – Thousands demonstrated in Madrid against the NATO presence in Spain.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pled innocent to Iran-Contra charges.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – The Exxon Valdez<\/i> spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska’s Prince William Sound after it ran aground.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – The U.S. decided to send humanitarian aid to the Contras.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Indian troops left Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The African nation of Benin held its first presidential elections in about 30 years.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – In Israel, Ezer Weizman, an advocate of peace with neighboring Arab nations, was elected President.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – Russian forces surrounded Achkoi-Martin. It was one of the few remaining strongholds of rebels in Chechenia.<\/p>\n 1995<\/strong> – The U.S. House of Representatives passed a welfare reform package that made the most changes in social programs since the New Deal.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – The Australian parliament overturned the world’s first and only euthanasia law.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – In Jonesboro, AR, two young boys open fire at students from woods near a school. Four students and a teacher were killed and 10 others were injured. The two boys were 11 and 13 years old cousins.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – A former FBI agent said papers found in James Earl Ray’s car supports a conspiracy theory in the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – In Kenya, at least 31 people were killed when a passenger train derailed. Hundreds were injured.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Vojvodina). The attacks marked the first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign country. The bombings were in response to Serbia’s refusal to sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – The 7-mile tunnel under Mont Blanc in France became an inferno after a truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire. At least 30 people were killed.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – Apple Computer Inc’s operating system MAC OS X went on sale.<\/p>\n 2002<\/strong> – Thieves stole five 17th century paintings from the Frans Hals Museum in the Dutch city of Haarlem. The paintings were worth about $2.6 million. The paintings were works by Jan Steen, Cornelis Bega, Adriaan van Ostade and Cornelis Dusart.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong> – The government of Kyrgyzstan collapsed after opposition protesters took over President Askar Akayev’s presidential compound and government offices.<\/p>\n 2005<\/strong> – Sandra Bullock received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong> – In Spain, the Basque separatist group ETA announced a permanent cease-fire.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong> – It was announced that the U.S. and its allies would exclude Russia from the G8 meeting and boycott a planned summit in Sochi in response to Russia’s takeover of Crimea.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong> \u2013 Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.<\/p>\n History of 24 March 1900 – Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke the ground for the New York subway tunnel that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. 1900 – In New Jersey, the Carnegie Steel Corporation was formed. 1904 – Vice Adm. 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