TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

March 24, 1958

Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army at the draft board in Memphis, Tennessee, before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. (Presley underwent basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, before being shipped off to Germany.)

ON THIS DATE

1765

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

1913

New York’s Palace Theatre, the legendary home of vaudeville, opened on Broadway.

1989

The supertanker Exxon Valdez (vahlDEEZ’) ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil.

1998

Two students, ages 13 and 11, opened fire outside Jonesboro Westside Middle School in Arkansas, killing four classmates and a teacher. (The gunmen were imprisoned by Arkansas until age 18, then by federal authorities until age 21.)