Important Events From This day in History March 24

 

1989 U.S.A. Exxon Valdez

1989 : The Exxon Valdez, a 987-foot oil tanker, ran aground on a reef and ripped holes in its hull, spilling crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. The Tanker spilled over 200,000 Barrels of Oil or more than 11 million gallons of crude oil leaving a Five Mile Slick making it one of the largest and most devastating environmental disasters at sea.

After 3 months when environmentalists and biologists did a study it was found that nearly 250,000 seabirds,3,000 sea otters, 300 harbor seals, 250 bald eagles and up to 22 killer whales died as a result of the spill, and the fish stocks in the area were also devastated due to the oil.

1941 U.S.A. Glenn Miller

1941 : Glenn Miller began production on “Sun Valley Serenade.” This would be his first motion picture for the film company 20th Century Fox.

1958 U.S.A. Elvis Presley

1958 : Elvis Presley is inducted as US Army as a private #53310761 and completed basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, before being posted to Friedberg, Germany with the 3rd Armored Division. It was while in the army he studied Karate which he continued to study after his term in the army finished as a sergeant on March 2, 1960.

1973 England Dark Side of the Moon

1973 : Pink Floyd the British Progressive rock band release the album "Dark Side of the Moon" which has became the 6th best selling album of all time with sales exceeding 40 million copies worldwide. What many do not know is it was produced at the Beatles famous Abbey Road Studios in London. Below are the tracks recorded on the album:

Speak to Me

Breathe

On the Run

Time

The Great Gig in the Sky

Money

Us and Them

Any Colour You Like

Brain Damage

Eclipse

1900 U.S.A. New York Subway

1900 : Work on the New York subway begins on the first section from City Hall to the Bronx, financed by the issue of rapid transit bonds issued by the City of New York and because no company was willing to take the risk of such a large project. They decided to build the subways itself by subcontracting with the IRT who ran the elevated railways in the city to equip and operate the subways, sharing the profits with the City and guaranteeing a fixed five-cent fare.

1920 U.S. Women Have Most Freedom

1920 : A woman from South America completed studies on women around the world. She had determined that women from the United States enjoy the most freedom of all the women around the world.

1921 U.S.A. Bullet

1921 : W.B. Meadows, a 78-year-old Civil War veteran coughed up a bullet. It had been stuck in his body since 1863 , which he was shot during the Battle of Vicksburg. Despite the fact that Meadows had a bullet stuck in his head for 58 years, he seemed to be in reasonably good health at the time he disposed of it. This man was a part of the “G” 37th infantry of Alabama.

1935 Oklahoma Education

1935 : An educational bill was being considered in Oklahoma. A major portion of this new bill involved the requirement of each county to divide areas up into separate districts. Another very important part of this bill would be that pertaining to defining school districts, by way of creating area maps. Further studies of each county were proposed by this bill as well.

1940 Norway Lochassator Sunk

1940 : Reports indicate that the British Ship Lochassator sunk into the waters of the Scandinavian Peninsula after it struck a German mine. During the same time period, Great Britain also sunk a carrier operated by the Germans in the North Sea. This action was taken in an attempt to cut Germany off from Swedish iron ore.

1944 Italy Nazi Reprisals

1944 : Following the murder of 32 German soldiers by Italian Resistance in Rome, Italy, Nazi execute 300 civilians. Just three months later the allied troops took back Rome on June 4th 1944.

1949 Palestine US Aid

1949 : President Harry S. Truman authorizes $16 million in aid for Palestinian refugees displaced and facing starvation as a result of Israel’s War of Independence in 1948.

1950 Canada Airforce C54

1950 : A message simply read as “I-s” was found in the snow. This is Air Force code for “serious injury, doctor required, food and water needed”. This signal brought hope that perhaps there were yet people alive aboard this buried plane Airforce C54 that had been missing for two months.

1953 England Queen Mary Dies

1953 : The British Queen Mother who was 85 dies peacefully in her sleep.

1954 U.S.A. AMC Formed

1954 : Nash Kelvinator Corporation and the Hudson Motor Car Company merged to form the American Motors Corporation ( AMC ).

1963 Costa Rica San Jose Volcano

1963 : A report was made concerning the erupting of a San Jose volcano. Hundreds of people had become ill from falling ash after the explosion of the Iraza. Likewise, numerous Costa Rica crops were destroyed, and local farm animals were killed.

1965 U.S.A. Ranger 9 Moon Lander

1965 : A live broadcast from the Ranger 9 Moon Lander is shown on television as it hurtles to it's destruction on the moons surface. Ranger 9 was the last of the moon probes sent in which they are deliberately aimed at the surface of the Moon to take as many images as possible before being destroyed on impact and the first fitted with a camera that could create film suitable for use on domestic TV's.

1972 U.S.A. Rocks

1972 : Scientists studying rock from different areas of the world have supported the theory that the continents used to be adjoining. As of this date, rocks have been gathered from Nova Scotia, Connecticut, New Jersey, Georgia, and South Carolina. These rocks were scheduled to be compared and contrasted with rocks from Morocco, which is in Africa.

1978 France Amoco Cadiz

1978 : The tanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two off the coast of France during strong winds dumping 220,000 tons of crude oil on the Brittany coast line. The spill has created an oil slick 18 miles wide and 80 miles long causing an environmental ecological disaster in the area.

1985 Germany Major Arthur Nicolson

1985 : Major Arthur Nicolson was shot. Within a few days following this event, Americans had told their side of the story regarding how it happened, which was very different from the story told by the Soviets account of the incident.

1990 Australia Richard Pryor

1990 : News of Comedian Richard Pryor’s hospitalization the day before went public. He had suffered a mild heart attack the day before and was now considered to be in good condition. He was expected to be released the following week. This was not the only time he had health trouble. In the 1980s he nearly died from a cocaine overdose.

1992 England Punch Magazine

1992 : The satirical British magazine Punch announces it will publish it's final issue on April 8th after 150 years due to falling sales and subscriptions.

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