Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 24

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 * 1603 – James VI of Scotland (pictured) succeeded to the thrones of England and Ireland as James I, uniting the realms under a single monarch.
 * 1860 – Japanese chief minister Ii Naosuke was assassinated by rōnin samurai upset with his role in opening Japan to foreign powers.
 * 1882 – German physician Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis.
 * 1898 – The Winton Motor Carriage Company (ad pictured), one of the first American car companies, sold its first unit.
 * 1921 – The inaugural Women's Olympiad, the first international women's sports event, opened at the International Sporting Club of Monaco in Monte Carlo.
 * 1922 – Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, two men wearing police uniforms broke into a house and murdered a Catholic family in what was believed to be a reprisal for the deaths of two policemen the day before.
 * 1980 – One day after making a plea to Salvadoran soldiers to stop carrying out the government's repression, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
 * 2008 – Led by Jigme Thinley, the Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party won 45 of 47 seats in the country's first National Assembly election.
 * 2015 – The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed the aircraft in a mass murder–suicide in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.
 * Born/died this day: | Catherine of Vadstena |d|1381| Elizabeth Ridgeway |d|1684|Fanny Crosby |b|1820| William Morris |b|1834| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |d|1882| Thomas E. Dewey |b|1902|Jules Verne |d|1905| David Irving |b|1938| Kitty O'Neil |b|1946| Mary of Teck |d|1953| E. T. Whittaker |d|1956| Jessica Chastain |b|1977| Maria Radner |d|2015

March 24: Purim (Judaism 2024), World Tuberculosis Day


 * 1387 – Hundred Years' War: An English fleet led by Richard Fitzalan attacked 250–360 French, Flemish and Castilian vessels in the Battle of Margate.
 * 1934 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act came into effect, which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence from the United States after a period of ten years.
 * 1939 – Members of the German National Movement in Liechtenstein attempted to overthrow the government and provoke Liechtenstein's annexation into Nazi Germany.
 * 1964 – Royal assent was given to Prince Edward Island's Provincial Flag Act, which outlined the design of its provincial flag (pictured).
 * 2006 – Hannah Montana, starring Miley Cyrus as an actress whose alter ego is the titular character, premiered.