eso ha pasado un 24 Marso

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.

Actualidad del día : 24 Marso

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.

Cita del día : 24 Marso

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

Cumpleaños : 24 Marso

Maria Malibran, Mezzo-soprano franco-española (1808)
Joseph Liouville, Matemático francés (1809)
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel, Físico francés (1820)
Ignacio Zaragoza, General mexicano (1829)
Harry Houdini, Mago húngaro-estadounidense (1874)
Adolf Butenandt, Químico alemán, Premio Nobel (1903)
Clyde Barrow, Criminal americano (1909)
John Kendrew, Bioquímico Inglés, Premio Nobel (1917)
Steve McQueen, Actor americano (1930)
Romain Bouteille, Comediante francés (1937)
Jean-Pierre Coffe, Presentador de televisión francés (1938)
Vojislav Koštunica, Político serbio (1944)
Tommy Hilfiger, Diseñador de moda americano (1951)
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO (1956)
Gabriele Susanne Kerner (Nena), Cantante alemana (1960)
Lara Flynn Boyle, Actriz americana (1970)
Sharon Corr, Música irlandesa (The Corrs) (1970)
Christophe Dugarry, Futbolista francés (1972)
Alyson Hannigan, Actriz americana (1974)
Cornelius Nyungura (Corneille), Cantante ruanda y canadiense (1977)
Bertrand Gille, Jugador de balonmano francés (1978)
Luca Ceccarelli, Futbolista italiano (1983)

Nos han dejado un 24 Marso

Elizabeth I, Reina de Inglaterra (1603)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Escritor americano (1882)
Jules Verne, Escritor francés (1905)
Auguste Piccard, Físico suizo (1962)
Sam Jaffe, Actor americano (1984)
César Milstein, Bioquímico argentino, Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina (2002)
Richard Widmark, Actor americano (2008)
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