Today in History

Today is Sunday, March 24, the 84th day of 2024. There are 282 days left in the year.

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT

On March 24, 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.

ON THIS DATE

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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.

› 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.

› 2013: Hundreds of thousands marched in Paris protesting the imminent legalization of same-sex marriage.

› 2015: Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320, crashed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board; investigators said the jetliner was deliberately downed by the 27-year-old co-pilot, Andreas Lubitz.

› 2018: In the streets of the nation’s capital and in cities across the country, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rallied against gun violence, spurred by a call to action from student survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

› 2020: the International Olympic Committee announced that the Summer Olympics in Tokyo would be postponed until 2021 because of the coronavirus.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie is

85. Rock musician Lee Oskar is 76. Singer Nick Lowe is 75. Rock musician Dougie Thomson (Supertramp) is 73. Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger is 73. Actor Donna Pescow is 70. Actor Robert Carradine is 70. Sen. Mike Braun, R-Indiana, is

70. Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer is

68. Actor Kelly LeBrock is 64. TV personality Star Jones is 62. Country-rock musician Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers) is

60. Actor Peter Jacobson is 59. Rock singer-musician Sharon Corr (The Corrs) is 54. Actor Lauren Bowles is 54. Actor Lara Flynn Boyle is 54. Actor Megyn Price is 53. Actor Jim Parsons is 51. Christian rock musician Chad Butler (Switchfoot) is 50. Actor Alyson Hannigan is

50. Former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning is

48. Actor Amanda Brugel (TV: “The Handmaid’s Tale”) is 47. Actor Olivia Burnette is 47. Actor Jessica Chastain is 47. Actor Amir Arison is 46. Actor Lake Bell is 45. Rock musician Benj Gershman (O.A.R.) is 44. Neo-soul musician Jesse Phillips (St. Paul & the Broken Bones) is 44. Actor Philip Winchester is 43. Dancer Val Chmerkovskiy is

38. Actor Keisha Castle-Hughes is 34.