User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/March 24

March 24

 * 1878 - The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.
 * 1944 - In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
 * 1976 - Argentina's military forces depose president Isabel Perón.
 * 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.