March 24th Anniversaries

Santo Domingo.- The events of March 24 are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history. Below are the main events of March 24:

• World Tuberculosis Day.
• International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.

Saint’s Day: Saints Simeon, Agapitus, and Epigmenius.

National: March 24th Anniversaries

1495. Christopher Columbus returns from an expedition to La Vega Real, during which he establishes the Concepción del Guaricano fortress.

International: March 24th Anniversaries

• 1208. Pope Innocent III excommunicates English King John Lackland.
• 1564. Pope Pius IV promulgated the Index librorum prohibitorum, a list of books prohibited by the Catholic Church.
• 1607. Unification of the crowns of England and Scotland by James VI.
• 1801. Tsar Paul I of Russia is assassinated.
• 1815. Ferdinand VII creates the Order of Isabella the Catholic.
• 1876. Ferdinand de Lesseps presides over the French Committee for the Opening of the Panama Canal.
• 1878. Antonio Maceo begins the “Guerra Chiquita” in Cuba.
• 1882. Robert Koch announces that he isolated the bacillus causing tuberculosis.
• 1913. Floods devastate the state of Ohio, USA.
• 1917. The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru is founded.
• 1924. The Republic of Greece is proclaimed.
• 1976. Coup d’état in Argentina: Jorge Rafael Videla deposes President María Estela Martínez de Perón.
• 1977. Pope Paul VI appoints Joseph Ratzinger, future Benedict XVI, as Archbishop.
• 1994. Mario Vargas Llosa occupies a seat in the Royal Spanish Academy.
• 1998. School massacre in Jonesboro, Arkansas.
• 1999. NATO bombs Yugoslavia.
• 2003. Vladimiro Montesinos is convicted of influence peddling in Peru.
• 2015. Germanwings flight 9525 accident in the French Alps.
• 2019. Russian planes with soldiers land in Venezuela.
• 2020. Global panic over hantavirus after the death of an inhabitant in China.
• 2022. British justice rejects the immunity of the emeritus king of Spain, Juan Carlos I.

Births: March 24th Anniversaries

• 1874: Luigi Einaudi, Italian politician, president between 1948 and 1955.
• 1942: Jesús Rojas Alou, Dominican baseball player.

Deaths: March 24th Anniversaries

• 1980: Monsignor Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop.
• 1905: Jules Verne, French novelist.
• 1993: Carlos Santana, Dominican executed in Texas.
• 2002: Ramón Tapia Espinal, former member of the Dominican Triumvirate.
• 2006: Juan Lockward, Dominican singer-songwriter.
• 2016: Dariel Alarcón Ramírez, Cuban guerrilla of Che Guevara in Bolivia.