Es passierte an einem 24 March

1921 : A veteran of the civil war coughes up a bullet


On March 24, 1921, a Confederate veteran of the Civil War, wounded in the eye in 1863 by a bullet fired by the Union soldier Peter Knapp, during the siege of Vicksburg, coughed the bullet up after 58 years. The two men, gathered by this cough, became friends.

1958 : Elvis Presley into the army


On March 24, 1958, Elvis Presley was inducted as U.S. Army. After training at Fort Hood in Texas, he was posted in Friedberg, Germany. He remained there until March 1960 and was released with the rank of sergeant.

1989 : Exxon Valdez


On 24 March 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound in Alaska. 40000 tonnes of crude oil spilled into the sea causing an environmental disaster.
250,000 seabirds and numerous marine mammals were killed.

1998 : Jonesboro massacre


On March 24, 1998, Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, two boys aged 11 and 13, opened fire with semiautomatic weapons at their school in Jonesboro, Arkansas, killing four students and one teacher and injured 10 others.

1999 : NATO air strikes in Yugoslavia


On March 24, 1999, NATO began its air strikes against Serbian military positions in Kosovo, then still a province of Yugoslavia.

2001 : Mac OS X


On March 24, 2001, the Apple operating system Mac OS X was released.

Tagesaktualität : 24 March

World Tuberculosis Day
March 24 is World Tuberculosis Day, created at the initiative of the United Nations, on the anniversary of the date when Robert Koch discovered the cause of the disease.

Zitat des Tages : 24 March

Jules Verne
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Geburtstage : 24 March

Maria Malibran, Spanish-French mezzo-soprano (1808)
Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (1809)
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel, French physicist (1820)
Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (1829)
Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician (1874)
Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel laureate (1903)
Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (1909)
John Kendrew, English biochemist, Nobel Laureate (1917)
Steve McQueen, American actor (1930)
Romain Bouteille, French comedian (1937)
Jean-Pierre Coffe, French TV host (1938)
Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian politician (1944)
Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer (1951)
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO (1956)
Gabriele Susanne Kerner (Nena), German singer (1960)
Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs) (1970)
Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress (1970)
Christophe Dugarry, French Footballer (1972)
Alyson Hannigan, American actress (1974)
Cornelius Nyungura (Corneille), Rwandan Canadian singer (1977)
Bertrand Gille, French handball player (1978)
Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer (1983)

Sie haben uns verlassen 24 March

Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1603)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American writer (1882)
Jules Verne, French writer (1905)
Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist (1962)
Sam Jaffe, American actor (1984)
César Milstein, Argentine biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2002)
Richard Widmark, American actor (2008)

Tipp des Tages : 24 March

To make a room look bigger



To make a room look bigger, before you install your furniture, make sketches to organize it optimally.
Paint it in a light color : dark colors shrink a room.
Use up your wall space and free up your floor.
However, do not hang too many posters or pictures on the walls otherwise your room would like messy.
Try to keep the room clean and tidy.
Use lights for lighting effects.

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