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“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
~ T.S. Eliot
Wikiquote (T.S. Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) an American-born English poet, dramatist and literary critic.)
March 24th, 1401
Mongol Empire:
1401 - Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
Wikipedia Image: Map of Mongol Empire at its height; Genghis Khan, credit The Field Museum in Chicago; Genghis Khan various Mongolian tribes joined together in 1206; Mongol warriors was created for an Islamic history book, Rashid al-Din's History of the World of 1307, courtesy of the Edinburgh University Library, Scotland.
March 24th, 1603
King James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England.
Wikipedia Painting: James I of England; James VI and I (June 19, 1566 – March 27, 1625) King of Scotland as James VI from July 24, 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the English and Scottish crowns on March 24, 1603 until his death.
March 24th, 1663
English Civil War:
1663 - 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.
Wikipedia Painting: English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers);
John Milton publishes Areopagitica;
Battle of Naseby, victory of the Parliamentarian New Model Army;
Battle of Marston Moor, 1644;
"Cromwell at Dunbar", by Andrew Carrick Gow; Oliver Cromwell; King Charles I, painted by Van Dyck;
"And when did you last see your father?" by William Frederick Yeames.
March 24th, 1707
1707 - Acts of Union 1707: is signed, officially uniting the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
1972 - The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
Wikipedia Photo: Satellite image of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, credit NASA / GSFC.
March 24th, 1721
Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
Wikipedia Photo: Johann Sebastian Bach; March 31, 1685 – July 28, 1750) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque Period. (Portrait of Bach in his old age, by Haussmann, 1748 ● Frederick the Great playing a flute concerto, by Adolph Menzel, 1852)
March 24th, 1765
American Revolutionary War:
1765 - The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
Wikipedia Paintings: Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutz; Battle of the Chesapeake, French (left) and British (right) lines; Battle of Bunker Hill, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumbull; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 13, 1782, by John Singleton Copley; Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, 1781; "The surrender at Saratoga" shows General Daniel Morgan in front of a French de Vallière 4-pounder; Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown by (John Trumbull, 1797).
Grand Union - Stars and Stripes Flag
March 24th, 1829
Catholic Emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
Wikipedia Photo: Close-Up of the Clock Face of Big Ben Houses of Parliament Westminster London England; The Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament
March 24th, 1832
In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.
Wikipedia Painting: Mormons head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
March 24th, 1869
New Zealand land wars: Titokowaru's War; The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand the uprising.
Wikipedia Image: Rewi Manga Maniapoto (died 1894) was a Waikato chief who led Maori forces during the British Invasion of Waikato during the New Zealand Wars; Satellite image of New Zealand, NASA's Visible Earth; Bay of Islands.
March 24th, 1900
Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground New York City Subway that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Wikipedia Photo: New York City's MTA (Metro Transit Authority).
March 24th, 1922
Irish War of Independence:
1922 - In Belfast, Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family and shoot all eight males inside.
Wikipedia Photo: British troops in Dublin City 1920's during the Irish War of Independence; Not everyone was a separatist in Ireland in 1919. Here the Union Jack flies over Trinity College at the Victory Parade for the First World War in Dublin; It believe the story behind the headlinesin the photo was with the shooting by members of Michael Collins squad of a high-ranking official of the G. N. R. (The Great Northern Railway) on the Southside of Dublin.
March 24th, 1923
Greece becomes a republic.
Wikipedia Image: Greece satellite image, credit NASA; Acrocorinth, looking north towards the Gulf of Corinth; The Acrocorinth in the background, behind the Temple of Apollo; Temple of Apollo Ancient Corinth; Early morning lightning illuminates the sky over the 2,500-year-old Ancient Parthenon temple, at the Acropolis hill during a heavy rainfall in Athens.
March 24th, 1927
Pre World War II:
1927 - Nanjing Incident; Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
1934 - The United States Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
World War II:
1944 - In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
Post World War II:
1946 - The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
Wikipedia Photo: Bombing of Dresden in World War II; August Schreitmüller's sculpture 'Goodness' surveys Dresden after a firestorm started by Allied bombers in 1945.
USS Bunker Hill was hit by kamikazes piloted by Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa and another airman on 11 May 1945. 389 personnel were killed or missing from a crew of 2,600; Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa, who flew his aircraft into the USS Bunker Hill during a Kamikaze mission on 11 May 1945; Kamikaze Missions - Lt Yoshinori Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 (Type 33 Suisei) "Judy" in a suicide dive against USS Essex. The dive brakes are extended and the non-self-sealing port wing tank is trailing fuel vapor and/or smoke 25 November 1944.
German V1 flying-bomb and V2 Rockets - Preparations for a Salvo Launch of V-2 Rockets in the Heidelager near Blizna (Poland) (1944), credit German History in Documents and Images GHDI.
Eastern Front (World War II); Germans race towards Stalingrad. August 1942; Soviet children during a German air raid in the first days of the war, June 1941, by RIA Novosti archive; Soviet sniper Roza Shanina in 1944. About 400,000 Soviet women served in front-line duty units Caucasus Mountains, winter 1942/43; Finnish ski patrol: the invisible enemy of the Soviet Army with an unlimited supply of skis; Men of the German Engineers Corps cross a river which is swollen after the first autumn rains, to strengthen bridges linking the German positions on the central front in Russia. by Keystone / Getty Images. October 1942; Russian snipers fighting on the Leningrad front during a blizzard. Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images, 1943; German soldiers surrendering to the Russians in Stalingrad, the soldier holding the white flag of surrender is dressed in white so that there could be no doubt of his intentions, a Russian soldier is on the right of the photograph. by Keystone / Getty Images, January 1943.
March 24th, 1944
World War II: Holocaust;
1944 - Ardeatine Massacre; German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
Wikipedia Photo: World War II, The Holocaust. Sources: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum USHMM, History 1900s, Internet Masters of Education Technology IMET, Techno Friends, Veterans Today, Concern.
March 24th, 1958
Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the United States Army.
Wikipedia Photo: Elvis Presley in Friedberg, Germany 1958, credit © Robert Lebeck, Grauwert Galleries.
March 24th, 1965
Ranger program: Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
Wikipedia Photo: Ranger program, NASA
March 24th, 1976
Argentine War of Independence:
1976 - 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. (Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.)
Wikipedia Photo: Buenos Aires, capital and largest city of Argentina; ● Perito Moreno Glacier Patagonia Argentina ● Iguazu Falls (Iguazu River forms the boundary between Argentina and Brazil).
March 24th, 1989
Exxon Valdez oil spill: 1989 - In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez in Alaska spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of petroleum after running aground.
Wikipedia Photo: Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels (41,000 to 119,000 m3) of crude oil. (It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters.)
March 24th, 1993
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.
Wikipedia Image: Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, credit NASA - Approach to Jupiter, torn into pieces as a result of a close approach to Jupiter in July 1992, will collide with Jupiter during the third week of July 1994..
March 24th, 1998
Tornadoes:
1926 - A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
Wikipedia Photo: Weather Front System; Tornado near Anadarko, Oklahoma; North Dakota Tornado; F3 Category Tornado Swirls Across A South Dakota Prairie by Carsten Peter; A waterspout parallels a lightning strike over Lake Okeechobee in Florida, by Fred K. Smith, National Geographics, Extream Instability.
March 24th, 1999
Yugoslav Wars, Kosovo War:
1999 - NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
Wikipedia Photo: ● Belgrade burning after NATO air raid (Ušće Tower building in the moments after bombing) ● U.S. F-117 Nighthawk taxis to the runway before taking off from Aviano Air Base, Italy, on March 24, 1999 ● USAF F-15E taking off from Aviano Air Base ● A Tomahawk cruise missile launches from the aft missile deck of the USS Gonzalez on March 31, 1999 ● Kosovar refugees.
March 24th, 2000
S & P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
Wikipedia Photo: The New York Stock Exchange floor, credit Associated Press; and fisheye view, credit © Geoff Sills, © Eric L Bowers.
March 24th, 2003
Gulf War - Iraq War:
2003 - 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.
Wikipedia Photo: USAF F-15Es, F-16s, and a USAF F-15 flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells; Iraqi Army T-72 main battle tanks. The T-72 tank was a common Iraqi battle tank used in the Gulf War; F-15Es parked during Operation Desert Shield; The oil fires caused were a result of the scorched earth policy of Iraqi military forces retreating from Kuwait; Aerial view of destroyed Iraqi T-72 tank, BMP-1 and Type 63 armored personnel carriers and trucks on Highway 8 in March 1991.
March 24th, 2015
Aviation accidents and incidents:
2015 - Germanwings Flight 9525; crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
Wikipedia Photo: ● Pan AM 747 ● U.S. Airways flight 1549 also known as the "Miracle on the Hudson" navigates an exit ramp near Burlington, New Jersey, June 5, 2011 ● Passengers stand on the wings of a U.S. Airways plane as a ferry pulls up to it after it landed in the Hudson River in New York, Reuters ● U.S. Airways plane crashes into New York Hudson River, Photo: AP