Today In History

Today is Saturday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2018. There are 282 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

› 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.

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

› 1965: Ranger 9, a lunar probe launched three days earlier by NASA, crashed into the moon (as planned) after sending back more than 5,800 video images.

› 1989: The supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil.

› 1999: NATO launched airstrikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time in its 50-year existence that it had ever attacked a sovereign country.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is 99. Actor William Smith is 85. Fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie is 79. Actor R. Lee Ermey is 74. Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger is 67. Comedian Louie Anderson is 65. Actress Donna Pescow is 64. Actor Robert Carradine is 64. Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is 62. Actress Kelly LeBrock is 58. Rhythm and blues DJ Rodney “Kool Kollie” Terry (Ghostown DJs) is 57. Actress Lauren Bowles is 48. Actress Lara Flynn Boyle is 48. Rapper Maceo (aka P.A. Pasemaster Mase) is 48. Actress Megyn Price is 47. Actor Jim Parsons is 45. Christian rock musician Chad Butler (Switchfoot) is 44. Actress Alyson Hannigan is 44. NFL quarterback Peyton Manning is 42. Actress Jessica Chastain is 41. Actor Amir Arison is 40. Actress Lake Bell is 39. Rock musician Benj Gershman (O.A.R.) is

38. Neo-soul musician Jesse Phillips (St. Paul & the Broken Bones) is 38. Actor Philip Winchester (TV: “Strike Back”) is

37. Actress Keisha Castle-Hughes is 28.