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Events on March 24

• 1603 With the death of the childless English Queen Elizabeth I, the Scottish King James VI becomes James I in personal union and also King of England and Ireland. This marks the beginning of Stuart rule on the British Isles.
• 1882 Robert Koch reports in his lecture Aetiology of Tuberculosis on his discovery of the causative agent of tuberculosis.
• 1908 Prince Henry of Prussia, the brother of Emperor Wilhelm II, receives a German patent for the manually operated windshield wiper he invented for the windshields of the motor vehicles of the time. His invention, however, finds little use.
• 1944 76 Allied prisoners of war succeed in escaping through a tunnel from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III near Żagań in Silesia. The escape is filmed 20 years later under the title The Great Escape.
• 1945 The Allies launch Operation Varsity, the largest airborne operation in history, to cross the Rhine between Emmerich and Wesel.
• 1969 The newly married couple of artists John Lennon and Yoko Ono invite the public to a bed-in by giving interviews from the bed of an Amsterdam hotel room, thus using the public interest in their honeymoon to campaign for world peace in an artistic way.
• 1973 Jersey advertising makes its debut in the German Football Bundesliga. Eintracht Braunschweig's team makes its first appearance in a match with Jägermeister advertising. In response to the DFB's opposition, the company logo was promptly incorporated into the club crest.
• 1996 In Hamburg, the multimillionaire Jan Philipp Reemtsma is overpowered by kidnappers and abducted. They initially demand a ransom of 20 million Deutsche marks, and later 30 million Deutsche marks.
• 1999 With NATO air strikes (Operation Allied Force) against Yugoslav military targets, the Kosovo War begins. The attacks ordered by NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana are strongly condemned by Russia and the People's Republic of China.
• 2001 Miroslav Klose makes his debut in the World Cup qualifying match in Leverkusen against Albania for the German national football team and scores the 2:1 winning goal shortly before the end. Later, he becomes the record goalscorer for the DFB national team.
• 2015 In the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in the French Alps, deliberately brought about by the co-pilot, all 150 people on board die.
• 2018 Under the motto March for Our Lives, hundreds of thousands of students in Washington, D.C. demonstrate in favor of stricter gun laws in the USA following the Parkland school shooting on 14 February.

Born on March 24

• 1874 Harry Houdini, Austrian-American escape artist and magician
• 1891 Rudolf Berthold, German fighter pilot in the First World War, Freikorps leader, participant in the Kapp Putsch
• 1901 Ub Iwerks, American animation artist and technician
• 1911 Joseph Barbera, American animated-film director and producer
• 1930 Steve McQueen, American actor
• 1951 Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
• 1960 Nena, German pop singer
• 1970 Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
• 1981 Anna Brüggemann, German actress
• 1990 Benedikt Doll, German biathlete

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „24. März“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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