Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/March 24
March 24: Maundy Thursday in Western Christianity (2005)
- 1603 - King James I became the first British monarch to reign in Scotland, England and Ireland simultaneously.
- 1882 - Robert Koch announced the discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
- 1944 - World War II: Captured Allied soldiers began "the Great Escape", breaking out of Stalag Luft III, a prison camp operated by the Luftwaffe.
- 1976 - Dirty War: President Isabel Perón of Argentina was kidnapped and deposed in a bloodless coup d'état.
- 1989 - The tanker Exxon Valdez spilled more than 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a major environmental disaster.