What happend on 24th March

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1972

The United Kingdom imposes "Direct Rule" over Northern Ireland.

1965

NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing.

1959

The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.

1944

In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.

1923

Greece becomes a republic.

1900

New York City Mayor Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

1898

Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile when he buys a Winton automobile that was advertised in Scientific American.

1882

Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (mycobacterium tuberculosis).

1878

The UK frigate Eurydice sinks, killing 300.

1868

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed.