On this day, March 24

1765 Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.

1832 A mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacked, tarred and feathered Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.

1882 German scientist Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.

1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.

1976 The president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country’s military.

1995 After 20 years, British soldiers stopped routine patrols in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1999 NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country. Thirty-nine people were killed when fire erupted in the Mont Blanc tunnel in France and burned for two days.

Today’s birthdays:

Designer Bob Mackie, 84.

Rock musician Lee Oskar, 75.

Singer Nick Lowe, 74.

Rock musician Dougie Thomson (Supertramp), 72.

Designer Tommy Hilfiger, 72.

Actor Donna Pescow, 69.

Actor Robert Carradine, 69.

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, 67.

Actor Kelly LeBrock, 63.

TV personality Star Jones, 61.

Actor Peter Jacobson, 58.

Rock singer-musician Sharon Corr (The Corrs), 53.

Actor Lauren Bowles, 53.

Actor Lara Flynn Boyle, 53.

Rapper Maceo (aka P.A. Pasemaster Mase), 53.

Actor Megyn Price, 52.

Actor Jim Parsons, 50.

Christian rock musician Chad Butler (Switchfoot), 49.

Actor Alyson Hannigan, 49.

Former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning, 47.

Actor Amanda Brugel (“The Handmaid’s Tale”), 46.

Actor Olivia Burnette, 46.

Actor Jessica Chastain, 46.

Actor Amir Arison, 45.

Actor Lake Bell, 44.

Rock musician Benj Gershman, 43.

Neo-soul musician Jesse Phillips, 43.