Daily Calendar for Tuesday, March 24, 2026
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Died
- Queen Elizabeth I (English monarch) –
- Jules Verne (author) –
- Archbishop Oscar Romero (Salvadorian human rights activist) –
- Richard Widmark (actor) –
- Robert Culp (actor) –
- Garry Shandling (comedian) –
- Marie-Claire Kirkland-Casgrain (Canadian politician) –
Born
- Horace Gray (Supreme Court justice) –
- John Wesley Powell (explorer) –
- Harry Houdini (magician) –
- Edward Weston (photographer) –
- Fatty Arbuckle (comedian) –
- George Sisler (baseball player) –
- Ub Iwerks (animator, cartoonist) –
- Thomas E. Dewey (politician) –
- Clyde Barrow (bank robber) –
- Joseph Barbera (cartoonist, producer) –
- Steve McQueen (actor) –
- Billy Stewart (singer) –
- Tommy Hilfiger (fashion designer) –
- Jim Parsons (actor) –
- Peyton Manning (football player) –
- Keisha Castle-Hughes (actress) –
- Christopher Briney (actor) –
Events
- Roger Williams granted charter for colony Rhode Island –
- Clement Hardy was issued a patent for a rotary disk plow –
- NYC Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck formally broke ground for construction of the NYC subway system –
- Ground-breaking for New York City subway system –
- President FDR issued statement appealing to Hungarians to help Jews escape from Nazis (WWII) –
- Nicholas Alkemade survived an 18,000-foot fall from a plane –
- 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 –
- Entertainer Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army –
- Maser patented –
- 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 –
- Senator Robert Kennedy was first to reach summit of Mt. Kennedy in Yukon Territory –
- The beaver became a symbol of Canadian sovereignty –
- French premier Jacques Chirac signed a contract to build the first Disneyland-type amusement park in Europe, on the outskirts of Paris –
- 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 –
- An 18.7-inch-long goldfish set a world record –
- Boston archbishop Sean O’Malley was elevated to cardinal at a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square in Rome –
Weather
- Eighty-three degrees F at Plymouth, Indiana –
- Twenty-five inches of snow, Kansas City, Missouri –
- 92 degrees F in St. Louis, Missouri –
- Snow in the mid-Atlantic states covered cherry blossoms, which had bloomed in the previous week’s 80-degree temperatures –