History Events on March 24

A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.

#Alexander_Stepanovich_Popov

Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February

#Frederick_I_of_Sweden

In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.

#Prince_William_Sound

The Enabling Act passed in both the Reichstag and Reichsrat.

#Enabling_Act_of_1933

El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.

#El_Salvador

A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.

#Tornado

The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.

#Province_of_Carolina

The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.

#1921_Women's_Olympiad

United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.

#United_States_Congress

Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.

#Jerome,_2nd_Count_de_Salis

Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television.

#Ranger_9

Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tair?) Ii Naosuke.

#Sakuradamon_Incident_(1860)

Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.

#Ardeatine_massacre

Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.

#Johann_Sebastian_Bach

Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of sh?gun from Emperor Go-Y?zei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.

#Tokugawa_Ieyasu

Slavery is abolished in Venezuela.

#Venezuela

Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.

#Elvis_Presley

Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.

#Canada

Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.

#Morarji_Desai

Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

#Robert_Koch

The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.

#Georgia_(country)

Quebec Board of the French Language is established.

#Office_québécois_de_la_langue_française

Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.

#Sino-French_War

Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

#Robert_Anderson_Van_Wyck

The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.

#HMS_Eurydice_(1843)

The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.

#Roman_Catholic_Relief_Act_1829

Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.

#Nanking_incident_of_1927

Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.

#Germanwings_Flight_9525

English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.

#Kingdom_of_England

Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.

#Kenya

In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.

#Argentina

A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.

#Mont_Blanc_Tunnel

In Kraków, Tadeusz Ko?ciuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.

#Tadeusz_Ko?ciuszko

Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.

#Kingdom_of_Great_Britain

Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.

#Bhutan

Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

#Kosovo_War

In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

#Hiram,_Ohio

World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.

#World_War_II

The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.

#Arab_League

First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany

Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.

Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.

The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.

A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.

The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.

James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.

Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.