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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.

Novità del giorno : 24 Marzo

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.

Citazione del giorno : 24 Marzo

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

Compleanni : 24 Marzo

Maria Malibran, Mezzo-soprano franco-spagnola (1808)
Joseph Liouville, Matematico francese (1809)
Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel, Fisico francese (1820)
Ignacio Zaragoza, Generale messicano (1829)
Harry Houdini, Mago ungherese-americano (1874)
Adolf Butenandt, Chimico tedesco, Premio Nobel (1903)
Clyde Barrow, Criminale americano (1909)
John Kendrew, Biochimico inglese, premio Nobel (1917)
Steve McQueen, Attore americano (1930)
Romain Bouteille, Comico francese (1937)
Jean-Pierre Coffe, Presentatore televisivo francese (1938)
Vojislav Koštunica, Politico serbo (1944)
Tommy Hilfiger, Fashion designer americano (1951)
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO (1956)
Gabriele Susanne Kerner (Nena), Cantante tedesca (1960)
Lara Flynn Boyle, Attrice americana (1970)
Sharon Corr, Musicista irlandese (The Corrs) (1970)
Christophe Dugarry, Calciatore francese (1972)
Alyson Hannigan, Attrice americana (1974)
Cornelius Nyungura (Corneille), Cantante ruanda e canadese (1977)
Bertrand Gille, Giocatore di pallamano francese (1978)
Luca Ceccarelli, Calciatore italiano (1983)

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Elizabeth I, Regina di Inghilterra (1603)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Scrittore americano (1882)
Jules Verne, Scrittrice francese (1905)
Auguste Piccard, Fisico svizzero (1962)
Sam Jaffe, Attore americano (1984)
César Milstein, Biochimico argentino, Premio Nobel per la Fisiologia e Medicina (2002)
Richard Widmark, Attore americano (2008)
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