Today In History March 24

1765 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.

1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground “Rapid Transit Railroad” that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. 1921 – The 1921 Women’s Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women’s sports event.

1934 – United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.

1958 – Rock ‘n’ roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.

1965 – Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television. 1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.

1989 – In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.

1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 .

1998 – Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded. 1998 – First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany

2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.

2019 – Jakarta MRT began operation.