History for March 24

History for March 24 - On-This-Day.com

R. Lee Ermey 1944 - Actor

• 1765 - Britain passed the Quartering Act that required the American colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings.
• 1882 - In Berlin, German scientist Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis germ (bacillus).
• 1904 - Vice Adm. Tojo sank seven Russian ships as the Japanese strengthened their blockade of Port Arthur.
• 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.
• 2014 - It was announced that the U.S. and its allies would exclude Russia from the G8 meeting and boycott a planned summit in Sochi in response to Russia's takeover of Crimea.
• 2019 - U.S. Attorney General William Barr released a four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report in U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign. The report concluded that there was no collusion with Russia.