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Notable anniversaries in history for today: March 24
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Harry Houdini AKA Erik Weisz in Budapest, Hungary; magician/escape artist.
- 150th: 1874 - Birth of Luigi Einaudi; economist/first President of Italy (1948-55).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Lois Andrews; actress (Ganster, Rustlers, Desert Hawk).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Norman Fell in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Mr Roper - Three's Company, The End, Graduate).
- 100th: 1924 - Greece becomes a republic.
- 80th: 1944 - 76 Allied officers escape Stalag Luft 3 (Great Escape).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Denny McLain; baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, 31 wins in 1968).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Patti Labelle; singer ("Phoenix", "Tasty", "Chameleon").
- 80th: 1944 - (evening) 811 British bombers attack Berlin, Germany. 72 planes are shot down, killing 392 crew members, and leaving 131 as prisoners. This is the final British air assault of the Battle of Berlin. Since August 1943, Bomber Command had flown over 10,000 sorties and dropped over 30,000 tons of bombs, making it the longest and most sustained bombing offensive against a single target in the war.
- 80th: 1944 - (night) The SS unit of Captain Erich Priebke rounds up 335 Italians, and machine-guns them in the Ardentine caves on the outskirts of Rome. The massacre is in reprisal for the killing of 33 German soldiers two days earlier by Italian resistance fighters.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Donna Pescow in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Irina Ratushinskaya in Odessa, Ukraine, USSR; dissident poet (Beyond the Limit).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Robert Carradine in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Slim - The Cowboys, Wavelength).
- 60th: 1964 - The U.S. Mint releases the President John Kennedy half dollar coins to circulation.
- 50th: 1974 - 36th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette 76-64; this ends UCLA's 7-year reign as NCAA basketball champions.
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Terry Killens; linebacker (Tennessee Oilers).
- 50th: 1974 - Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at age 79.
- 40th: 1984 - International Olympic Committee agrees to six-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics.
- 40th: 1984 - Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:01.51).
- 40th: 1984 - Sam Jaffe, American actor (Dr Zorba - Ben Casey), dies of cancer at age 93 (born 1891).
- 40th: 1984 - Andrea Schöne skates ladies' world record 5 km (7:04.52).
- 30th: 1994 - F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above air force base in North Carolina, 120 die.
- 25th: 1999 - NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which refused to sign a peace treaty. This marks the first time NATO attacked a sovereign country.
- 25th: 1999 - Fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills 39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly three years.
- 20th: 2004 - The European Competition Commission labels Microsoft an abusive monopolist. The Commission says Microsoft must offer European computer makers two versions of Windows, with and without Windows Media Player, must share technical information on server software with rivals, and must pay a US$613 million fine.
- 15th: 2009 - Death of George Kell, third baseman (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Baseball Hall of Fame), in his sleep at age 86 in Swifton, Arkansas.
- 10th: 2014 - During an emergency meeting, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, and Canada temporarily suspend Russia from the G8.
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