On March 24th in U S Political History
On March 24th in 1661 William Leddra became the last Quaker to be hanged in Boston Common. Charles II ordered the executions stopped.
On March 24th in 1663 Charles II of England awarded lands known as Carolina in America to eight members of the nobility who assisted in his restoration to the throne.
On March 24th in 1765 Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to 10,000 British soldiers in public and private buildings.
On March 24th in 1832 Mormon founder, martyr Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.
On March 24th in 1862 Abolitionist Wendell Phillips spoke to a crowd about emancipation in Cincinnati, Ohio and was pelted by eggs.
On March 24th in 1900 Mayor Van Wyck of New York broke ground for the New York subway tunnel that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
On March 24th in 1912 The “Bread and Roses” textile workers strike in Lawrence, Mass., ended. Mill owners, fearing that government intervention and investigation would jeopardize the high tariff on woolens, had finally agreed to bargain. Offers of pay increases from five to twenty-five percent, time-and-a-quarter for overtime, and no discrimination against strikers led to the end of the strike.
On March 24th in 1930 The U.S. Senate passed a bill increasing tariffs.
On March 24th in 1934 President Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.
On March 24th in 1944 76 Allied officers escaped Stalag Luft 3. In 1949 Paul Brickall authored "The Great Escape." The story of Jackson Barrett Mahon (d.1999 at 78), an American fighter pilot, and the Allied POW escape from Stalag Luft III in Germany during WW II. The 1963 film "The Great Escape" starred Steve McQueen, was directed by John Sturges and was based on the true story. In 1999 Arthur A. Durand published Stalag Luft III: The Secret Story." When the Russian Army closed in tens of thousands of POWs were marched 240 miles south to a new camp and thousands died in the "Black March."
On March 24th in 1945Operation Varsity: British, US and Canadian airborne began landings east of Rhine. It was the largest one-day airborne drop. Involving 600 transports and 1300 gliders.
On March 24th in 1947 Congress proposed the limitation of the presidency to two terms.
On March 24th in 1951 MacArthur threatened the Chinese with an extension of the Korean War if the proposed truce was not accepted.
On March 24th in 1958 Rock 'n' roll singer Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn. After nearly six months of basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, Presley was posted to Friedberg, West Germany; he was honorably discharged in 1960.
On March 24th in 1959 Gen. Qasim pulled Iraq out of the Baghdad Pact after the United States signed bilateral cooperation agreements with Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. A number of assassination attempts on Qasim failed including an attempt that included Baath Socialist Party activist Saddam Hussein.
On March 24th in 1960 US appeals court ruled the novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence, to be not obscene.
On March 24th in 1964 the Kennedy half-dollar was issued.
On March 24th in 1966 Selective Service announced college deferments based on performance.
On March 24th in 1967 In Vietnam - B Battery was replaced at Gio Linh and returned to base camp at JJ Carroll. The entire battalion had been involved in Operation High Rise, the first Operation involving heavy artillery firing at targets in North Vietnam. The fire mission was an effort to disrupt the enemy supply from the North.
On March 24th in 1972 The US announces a boycott of the Paris peace talks as President Nixon accuses Hanoi of refusing to "negotiate seriously."
On March 24th in 1976 In Argentina the military overthrew the government of Isabel Peron. Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla led the military coup. Jose Siderman, a Jewish businessman, was forced with death threats to leave the country. He filed suit in the US in 1982 in the first trial of a foreign government for human-rights abuses and won a default settlement. Argentina won a reversal in an appeals court but in 1996 Argentina dropped opposition to the suit.
On March 24th in 1988 Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pleaded innocent to Iran-Contra charges. North and Poindexter were convicted, but had their convictions thrown out; Secord and Hakim received probation after each pleaded guilty to a single count under a plea bargain.
On March 24th in 1989 The nation's worst oil spill occurred as the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking 10.6 million gallons of oil. The spill fouled approximately 1,000 miles of Alaska shoreline and an estimated 250,000 seabirds were killed. Exxon reportedly spent $2.5 billion to clean up the spill and filed suit against Lloyd’s of London for reimbursement under a $210 million insurance policy. In 1996 a jury in Houston voted that Lloyd’s and some 250 other underwriters should compensate Exxon. The Exxon Valdez was later renamed the Mediterranean.
On March 24th in 1991 General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the American commander of Operation Desert Storm, told reporters in Saudi Arabia the United States was closer to establishing a permanent military headquarters on Arab soil.
On March 24th in 1972 The US announces a boycott of the Paris peace talks as President Nixon accuses Hanoi of refusing to "negotiate seriously."
On March 24th in 1976 In Argentina the military overthrew the government of Isabel Peron. Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla led the military coup. Jose Siderman, a Jewish businessman, was forced with death threats to leave the country. He filed suit in the US in 1982 in the first trial of a foreign government for human-rights abuses and won a default settlement. Argentina won a reversal in an appeals court but in 1996 Argentina dropped opposition to the suit.
On March 24th in 1988 Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim pleaded innocent to Iran-Contra charges. North and Poindexter were convicted, but had their convictions thrown out; Secord and Hakim received probation after each pleaded guilty to a single count under a plea bargain.
On March 24th in 1989 The nation's worst oil spill occurred as the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking 10.6 million gallons of oil. The spill fouled approximately 1,000 miles of Alaska shoreline and an estimated 250,000 seabirds were killed. Exxon reportedly spent $2.5 billion to clean up the spill and filed suit against Lloyd’s of London for reimbursement under a $210 million insurance policy. In 1996 a jury in Houston voted that Lloyd’s and some 250 other underwriters should compensate Exxon. The Exxon Valdez was later renamed the Mediterranean.
On March 24th in 1991 General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the American commander of Operation Desert Storm, told reporters in Saudi Arabia the United States was closer to establishing a permanent military headquarters on Arab soil.
On March 24th in 1993 Mahmoud Abouhalima, a cab driver implicated in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was flown back to the United States from Egypt. Abouhalima was later convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.
On March 24th in 1994 President Clinton held a news conference in which he acknowledged he had significantly overstated the loss in his Whitewater land investment and promised to release late 1970's tax returns to answer questions on the land deal.
On March 24th in 1995 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."
On March 24th in 1997 Vice President Gore arrived in China for the highest-level U.S. visit in eight years. He witnessed the Beijing signing of trade deals with GM and Boeing.
On March 24th in 1998 The Clinton administration announced a $56 million food and medical supply donation to Indonesia.
On March 24th in 1998 In California the Oakland City Council voted to adopt a Jobs and Living Wage Ordnance that mandated businesses contracting with the city to pay workers at least $8 an hour with benefits or $9.25 without benefits. It was the 17th city nationwide to adopt such an ordnance.
On March 24th in 1994 President Clinton held a news conference in which he acknowledged he had significantly overstated the loss in his Whitewater land investment and promised to release late 1970's tax returns to answer questions on the land deal.
On March 24th in 1995 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."
On March 24th in 1997 Vice President Gore arrived in China for the highest-level U.S. visit in eight years. He witnessed the Beijing signing of trade deals with GM and Boeing.
On March 24th in 1998 The Clinton administration announced a $56 million food and medical supply donation to Indonesia.
On March 24th in 1998 In California the Oakland City Council voted to adopt a Jobs and Living Wage Ordnance that mandated businesses contracting with the city to pay workers at least $8 an hour with benefits or $9.25 without benefits. It was the 17th city nationwide to adopt such an ordnance.
On March 24th in 1999 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.
On March 24th in 1999 The US Operations Allied Force, Noble Anvil, Shining Hope and Falcon began in Kosovo. About $5 billion was appropriated and left 4 US casualties.
On March 24th in 2000 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.
On March 24th in 2000 A US federal judge awarded former hostage Terry Anderson $341 million from Iran, holding Iranian agents responsible for Anderson’s nearly seven years of captivity in Lebanon.
On March 24th in 2002 President Bush, during a 6-hour visit to El Salvador, held out the promise of expanded trade to Central American nations.
On March 24th in 2003 In the 6th day of Operation Iraqi Freedom US forces began strikes against the Medina Division of the Republican Guard guarding Baghdad. Coalition forces held over 3,000 prisoners. 10 US Marines were killed in combat around Nasiriya.
On March 24th in 2003 In Georgia President Shevardnadze confirmed that the US was flying U-2 spy planes over the Pankisi Gorge area to help fight Chechen rebel infiltration.
On March 24th in 2003 Saddam Hussein appeared on Iraqi TV telling his nation that "victory is soon." Iraqi state television showed two men said to have been the U.S. crew of an Apache helicopter forced down during heavy fighting in central Iraq. Chief Warrant Officer David Williams and Chief Warrant Officer Ronald D.
On March 24th in 2004 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.
On March 24th in 2004 The Bush administration, under pressure from farmers, petitioned to postpone the global phase-out of methyl bromide, a pesticide that has been shown to destroy ozone.
On March 24th in 2005 Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced the US will release $3.2 million in aid to Guatemala for its progress in overhauling a military once blamed for human rights abuses.
On March 24th in 2005 30-year mortgages climbed just above 6% reflecting concerns in the financial markets about the threat of inflation.
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