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1898 Winton advertisement
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Robert Koch
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M. tuberculosis cells
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Exxon Valdez aground
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Ukiyo-e depiction of the Sakuradamon incident
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| Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice in Argentina | stub |
| 1550 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: England and Scotland signed the Treaty of Boulogne, ending hostilities between the two nations in the Rough Wooing. | Source cited (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1982.tb01144.x) says "peace treaty signed on 25 March" |
| 1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach presented Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt with six concertos, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos. | refimprove section |
| 1869 – New Zealand Wars: Māori leader Tītokowaru's conflict ended with the last of his forces surrendering to the New Zealand colonial government. | No page numbers banner |
| 1927 – Following the capture of Nanjing by an alliance of Nationalist and Communist forces, British and American warships bombarded the city in defence of foreign citizens there. | refimprove |
| 1944 – World War II: German occupation troops killed 335 people in Rome as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day against the SS Police Regiment Bozen. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – Second World War: Captured Allied airmen began "the Great Escape", breaking out of the German prison camp [[Stalag Luft III|Stalag Template:Nowrap]]. | refimprove section |
| 1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on television, brought images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing. | single source |
| 1976 – Led by Jorge Rafael Videla, the Argentine military deposed President Isabel Perón in a coup d'état, established a military junta known as the National Reorganization Process, and began state-sponsored violence against dissidents known as the Dirty War. | citations needed |
| 1989 – The tanker Exxon Valdez began to spill 10.8 million US gal (260,000 bbl; 41,000 m3) of crude oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing one of the most devastating man-made maritime environmental disasters. | Citations needed |
| 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. | refimprove section |
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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| Matilda Joslyn Gage |b|1826| William Morris |b|1834| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |d|1882| Thomas E. Dewey |b|1902|Jules Verne |d|1905| David Suzuki |b|1936| 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: Night of Power (Shia Islam, 2025); World Tuberculosis Day Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1387 – Hundred Years' War: An English fleet led by Richard Fitzalan attacked 250 to 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.