History for March 24 - On-This-Day.com
Andrew Mellon 1855 - American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, U.S. Secretary of the Treasure (1921-1932), Harry Houdini 1874 - Magician, escape artist, Dorothy R. Stratton 1898 - Founded women's branch of the U.S. Coast Guard
Steve McQueen 1930 - Actor, R. Lee Ermey 1944 - Actor, Peyton Manning 1976 - Football player
1989 - The Exxon Valdez spilled 240,000 barrels (11 million gallons) of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound after it ran aground.
1999 - NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina). The attacks marked the first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign country. The bombings were in response to Serbia's refusal to sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo.
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