On This Day in History | ||||||||
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Historical Events | ||||||||
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1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns. | ||||||||
1837 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote. | ||||||||
1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis), and establishes germ theory. | ||||||||
1976 Argentine President Isabel Martínez de Perón is deposed in a military coup headed by Jorge Rafael Videla. | ||||||||
2020 China's Hubei province, the original center of the COVID-19 outbreak eases restrictions on travel after a nearly two-month lockdown. On the same day Indian PM Narendra Modiorders a 21 day lockdown. | ||||||||
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Famous Birthdays | ||||||||
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Famous Deaths | ||||||||
Also Elizabeth I, John Harrison and Bernard Montgomery. | ||||||||
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John Manningham Notes the Passing of Queen Elizabeth I | ||||||||
John Manningham was an English lawyer and diarist who wrote this especially moving entry on the passing of Queen Elizabeth I. | ||||||||
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Sunday, March 24, 2024
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