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2020

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe announces the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games to the summer of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

1999

Premiere of the film “The Matrix,” written and directed by the Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeves, Lawrence Fishburne, and Carrie-Anne Moss.

NATO bombs Yugoslavia. This is the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

1989

The Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels of oil off the coast of Alaska.

1962

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards play together in a band called Little Boy Blue & the Blue Boys.

1958

Elvis Presley is drafted into the U.S. Army.

1945

Operation Varsity, the largest airborne operation in history, begins. British, American, and Canadian troops are parachuted east of the Rhine in northern Germany.

1936

The Detroit Red Wings defeat the Montreal Maroons 1–0 after 16 minutes and 30 seconds of the ninth period. It is the longest game in Stanley Cup playoff history.

1837

Canada grants the right to vote to Black men.

1824

Ludwig van Beethoven premieres “Missa Solemnis” in St. Petersburg.

It happened on… March 24

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