Daily Calendar for March 24th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

1600s

• Died 1603: Queen Elizabeth I (English monarch)

1640s

• 1644: Roger Williams granted charter for colony Rhode Island

1820s

• Born 1828: Horace Gray (Supreme Court justice)

1830s

• Born 1834: John Wesley Powell (explorer)

1870s

• Born 1874: Harry Houdini (magician)

1880s

• Born 1886: Edward Weston (photographer)

• Born 1887: Fatty Arbuckle (comedian)

1890s

• Born 1893: George Sisler (baseball player)

• 1896: Clement Hardy was issued a patent for a rotary disk plow

1900s

• 1900: NYC Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck formally broke ground for construction of the NYC subway system

• Born 1901: Ub Iwerks (animator, cartoonist)

• Born 1902: Thomas E. Dewey (politician)

• Died 1905: Jules Verne (author)

• Born 1909: Clyde Barrow (bank robber)

1910s

• Born 1911: Joseph Barbera (cartoonist, producer)

1930s

• Born 1930: Steve McQueen (actor)

• Born 1937: Billy Stewart (singer)

1940s

• 1944: President FDR issued statement appealing to Hungarians to help Jews escape from Nazis (WWII)

• 1944: Nicholas Alkemade survived an 18,000-foot fall from a plane

1950s

• Born 1951: Tommy Hilfiger (fashion designer)

• 1955: The Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened on Broadway, with Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie, Ben Gazarra as Brick, and Burl Ives as Big Daddy

• 1958: Entertainer Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army

• 1959: Maser patented

1960s

• 1965: U.S. spacecraft Ranger 9 crash-landed precisely on target in the Alphonsus crater of the moon after transmitting to Earth 5,814 photographs of the crater region

• 1965: Senator Robert Kennedy was first to reach summit of Mt. Kennedy in Yukon Territory

1970s

• Born 1973: Jim Parsons (actor)

• 1975: The beaver became a symbol of Canadian sovereignty

• Born 1976: Peyton Manning (football player)

1980s

• Died 1980: Archbishop Oscar Romero (Salvadorian human rights activist)

• 1986: Libyan and U.S. forces exchanged gunfire after U.S. naval planes entered a restricted area across the Gulf of Sidra

• 1987: French premier Jacques Chirac signed a contract to build the first Disneyland-type amusement park in Europe, on the outskirts of Paris

• 1989: The largest oil spill in U.S. history, initially estimated at 240,000 barrels, occurred after the Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound

1990s

• Born 1990: Keisha Castle-Hughes (actress)

2000s

• 2006: Boston archbishop Sean O'Malley was elevated to cardinal at a ceremony in St. Peter's Square in Rome

• Died 2008: Richard Widmark (actor)

2010s

• Died 2010: Robert Culp (actor)

• Died 2016: Garry Shandling (comedian)

• Died 2016: Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain (Canadian politician)