Today is Tuesday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2009. There are 282 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT:
On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and began leaking 11 million gallons of crude oil.
ON THIS DATE:
In 1765, Britain enacted the Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers.
In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines.
In 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italians the day before that killed 32 German soldiers.
In 1955, the Tennessee Williams play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opened on Broadway.
In 1958, Elvis Presley was inducted into the Army in Memphis, Tenn.
In 1976, the president of Argentina, Isabel Peron, was deposed by her country’s military.
In 1995, after 20 years, British soldiers stopped routine patrols in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
In 1999, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that Boeing 737 rudder problems caused two fatal airline crashes and nearly triggered a third.
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