| YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
| 1208 | Mar 24 | King John of England opposed Innocent III on his nomination for archbishop of Canterbury. |
| 1663 | Mar 24 | Charles II of England awarded lands known as Carolina in America to eight members of the nobility who assisted in his restoration. |
| 1802 | Mar 24 | Richard Trevithick was granted a patent in London for his steam locomotive. |
| 1855 | Mar 24 | Manhattan, Kansas, was founded as New Boston, Kansas.sw |
| 1862 | Mar 24 | Abolitionist Wendell Phillips spoke to a crowd about emancipation in Cincinnati, Ohio and was pelted by eggs. |
| 1900 | Mar 24 | Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke ground for the New York subway tunnel that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. |
| 1904 | Mar 24 | Vice Adm. Tojo sank seven Russian ships as the Japanese strengthened their blockade of Port Arthur. |
| 1911 | Mar 24 | Penal code reform abolished corporal punishment in Denmark. |
| 1924 | Mar 24 | Greece became a republic. |
| 1930 | Mar 24 | The U.S. Senate passed a bill increasing tariffs. |
| 1934 | Mar 24 | President Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines. |
| 1937 | Mar 24 | A bus blew a tire, went out of control and 18 people were killed in Salem, Illinois. |
| 1938 | Mar 24 | The U.S. asked that all powers help refugees fleeing from the Nazis. |
| 1941 | Mar 24 | Joseph H. Taylor, Jr., radio astronomer and physicist, was born. |
| 1945 | Mar 24 | Egypt declared war on Germany. |
| 1947 | Mar 24 | Congress proposed the limitation of the presidency to two terms. |
| 1949 | Mar 24 | At the Academy Awards, “Hamlet” won best picture of 1948 and its star, Laurence Olivier, best actor; Jane Wyman won best actress for “Johnny Belinda”; “Treasure of Sierra Madre” won best director for John Huston and best supporting actor for the director’s father, Walter Huston. |
| 1952 | Mar 24 | Great demonstrations took place against apartheid in South Africa. |
| 1955 | Mar 24 | The 1st seagoing oil drill rig was placed in service. |
| 1960 | Mar 24 | US appeals court ruled the novel, “Lady Chatterly’s Lover” by D.H. Lawrence, to be not obscene. |
| 1964 | Mar 24 | The first Kennedy half-dollar was issued. |
| 1966 | Mar 24 | Selective Service announced college deferments based on performance. |
| 1977 | Mar 24 | Morarji Desai, head of the Janata Party, became prime minister of India. |
| 1985 | Mar 24 | Thousands demonstrated in Madrid against the NATO presence in Spain. |
| 1987 | Mar 24 | French Premier Jacques Chirac signed a contract with Walt Disney Productions for the creation of a Disneyland amusement park, the first in Europe. |
| 1993 | Mar 24 | Ezer Weizman was elected Israel’s seventh president. |
| 1995 | Mar 24 | The House of Representatives passed, 234-to-199, a welfare reform package calling for the most profound changes in social programs since the New Deal; President Clinton criticized the bill, saying it was “weak on work and tough on children.” |
| 1996 | Mar 24 | NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid transferred from the space shuttle Atlantis to the Russian space station Mir, beginning a five-month stay. |
| 1998 | Mar 24 | The Clinton administration announced a $56 million food and medical supply donation to Indonesia. |
| 1999 | Mar 24 | The US Supreme Court ruled to uphold an 1837 treaty with the Chippewa Indians for hunting and fishing on 13 million acres of public land in Minnesota. |
| 2000 | Mar 24 | The US agreed to double the amount of money Iraq was allowed to spend to repair its oil industry and lifted holds on over $100 million in equipment. |
| 2001 | Mar 24 | U.S. skater Michelle Kwan won her fourth World Figure Skating title; Irina Slutskaya of Russia was second, and American Sarah Hughes earned the bronze. |
| 2003 | Mar 24 | In the 6th day of Operation Iraqi Freedom US forces began strikes against the Medina Division of the Republican Guard guarding Baghdad. Hussein appeared on Iraqi TV as coalition forces held over 3,000 prisoners. 10 Marines were killed in combat around Nasiriya. |
| 2004 | Mar 24 | Former top terrorism adviser Richard Clarke, testifying before the federal 9-11 Commission, accused the Bush administration of scaling back the campaign against Osama bin Laden before the attacks and undermining the fight against terrorism by invading Iraq. |
| 2004 | Mar 24 | In the Ivory Coast about a dozen people were killed during a massive protest march. |
| 2005 | Mar 24 | Iraqi police mistook a group of Iraqi soldiers for insurgents and opened fire, sparking a 10-minute gunbattle that killed five in the northern town of Rabia. |
| 2006 | Mar 24 | Officials said Bulgaria and the US have reached an agreement allowing the US military to use several military bases in Bulgaria. |
| 2007 | Mar 24 | It was reported that the total number of books in existence was estimated to be about 65 million. |
| 2008 | Mar 24 | The US National Association of Realtors said sales of previously occupied homes rose 2.9% in February with a median price drop of 8.2%. Foreclosed properties represented about one in nine or currently listed homes for sale. |
| 2009 | Mar 24 | Pres. Obama in his 2nd prime time news conference made the case for his $3.6 trillion budget plan. |
| 2010 | Mar 24 | President Barack Obama’s administration named 54 alleged Mexican drug cartel lieutenants and enforcers as drug kingpins under a law that allows the US government to freeze their bank accounts and penalize their business associates. |
| 2011 | Mar 24 | The Book of Mormon, a new musical collaboration between South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q composer Robert Lopez, premiered on Broadway. |
| 2012 | Mar 24 | Rick Santorum won Louisiana’s Republican primary. He walked away with at least eight of the 20 delegates up for grabs, while Mitt Romney came in second. While Louisiana has a total of 46 delegates at stake, just 20 were in play. The rest will be determined at the state convention in June. |
| 2013 | Mar 24 | Central African Republic’s President Francois Bozize fled the capital, hours after hundreds of armed rebels threatening to overthrow him invaded Bangui. |
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