- On This Day

Find out what happened on this day in the past (and every other day). Thousands of famous births,deaths as well as political and social events.

24-March-1874 Harry Houdini born

24-March-1882 Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow dies

24-March-1887 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle born

24-March-1905 Author Jules Verne dies

24-March-1911 Joseph Barbera born

24-March-1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti born

24-March-1930 Steve McQueen born

24-March-1953 Death of Queen Mary

24-March-1953 Louie Anderson born

24-March-1964 Annabella Sciorra born

24-March-1970 Sharon Corr born

24-March-1974 Alyson Hannigan born

24-March-1976 Peyton Manning born

24-March-1989 Oil tanker, Exxon Valdez, runs aground in Alaska

24-March-2008 Easter Monday