24 March
Notable Births
Gonzalo García (footballer, born 2004)
b. 2004
Spanish footballer (born 2004)
Clara Burel
b. 2001
French tennis player (born 2001)
Katie Swan
b. 1999
British tennis player (born 1999)
Christopher Briney
b. 1998
American actor (born 1998)
Ethel Cain
b. 1998
American singer-songwriter (born 1998)
Damar Hamlin
b. 1998
American football player (born 1998)
Mina (Japanese singer)
b. 1997
Japanese singer (born 1997)
Myles Turner
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Daniel Sazonov
b. 1993
Finnish politician (born 1993)
Nick Browne (cricketer)
b. 1991
English cricketer (born 1991)
Dalila Jakupović
b. 1991
Slovenian tennis player (born 1991)
Aljur Abrenica
b. 1990
Filipino actor (born 1990)
Keisha Castle-Hughes
b. 1990
New Zealand actress
Starlin Castro
b. 1990
Dominican baseball player (born 1990)
Lacey Evans
b. 1990
American professional wrestler (born 1990)
Alyssa Healy
b. 1990
Australian cricketer (born 1990)
Zyzz
b. 1989
Australian bodybuilder and internet celebrity (1989–2011)
Aiga Grabuste
b. 1988
Latvian heptathlete
Matt Todd
b. 1988
NZ international rugby union player
Bonnie and Clyde
b. 1909
American bank robbers in the 1930s
Notable Deaths
Dick Carlson
d. 2025
American journalist and diplomat (1941–2025)
Lou Whittaker
d. 2024
American mountaineer (1929–2024)
Gordon Moore
d. 2023
American businessman (1929–2023)
Pradeep Sarkar
d. 2023
Indian film director (1955–2023)
Dagny Carlsson
d. 2022
Swedish blogger and influencer (1912–2022)
Jessica Walter
d. 2021
American actress (1941–2021)
Albert Uderzo
d. 2020
French comic book artist (1927–2020)
Manu Dibango
d. 2020
Cameroonian musician and songwriter (1933–2020)
Joseph Pilato
d. 2019
American actor (1949–2019)
Lys Assia
d. 2018
Swiss singer (1924–2018)
Rim Banna
d. 2018
Palestinian singer (1966–2018)
Johan Cruyff
d. 2016
Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)
Garry Shandling
d. 2016
American comedian (1949–2016)
Oleg Bryjak
d. 2015
Ukrainian opera singer (1960–2015)
Maria Radner
d. 2015
German opera singer (1981–2015)
Oleksandr Muzychko
d. 2014
Ukrainian activist (1962–2014)
David A. Trampier
d. 2014
American artist (1954–2014)
Barbara Anderson (writer)
d. 2013
New Zealander writer
Inge Lønning
d. 2013
Norwegian theologist and politician
Gury Marchuk
d. 2013
Soviet scientist
On This Day in History
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OpenAI announces that their flagship Sora app and API are shutting down.
OpenAI
2024
The 2024 Senegalese presidential election is held following anti-government protests.
2024 Senegalese presidential election
2023
An EF4 tornado strikes the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi, causing mass destruction.
2023 Rolling Fork tornado
2018
Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive.
Syrian civil war
2018
Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
United States
2015
Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
Germanwings Flight 9525
2008
Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
Bhutan
1999
Kosovo War: NATO begins attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
Kosovo War
1999
A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 39 people.
Mont Blanc Tunnel fire
1998
Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, open fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
1998 Westside Middle School shooting
1998
A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
Tornado
1998
Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla performs the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
Rüdiger Marmulla
1992
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-45.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1990
Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with the last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.
Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war
1989
In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.
Prince William Sound
1986
The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
Loscoe
1982
Bangladeshi President Abdus Sattar is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Army Chief Lieutenant general Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who suspends the Constitution and imposes martial law.
Abdus Sattar (president)
1980
El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
El Salvador
1977
Morarji Desai becomes the prime minister of India, the first prime minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
Morarji Desai
1976
In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a seven-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.
Argentina