📜 This Day in History

March 24

• 1387Hundred Years' War: An English fleet led by Richard Fitzalan attacked 250 to 360 French, Flemish and Castilian vessels in the Battle of Margate.
• 1882German physician Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis.
• 1921The inaugural Women's Olympiad, the first international women's sports event, opened at the International Sporting Club of Monaco in Monte Carlo.
• 1939Members of the German National Movement in Liechtenstein attempted to overthrow the government and provoke Liechtenstein's annexation into Nazi Germany.
• 2002At the 74th Academy Awards, Halle Berry became the first African American to win Best Actress, winning for her role as Leticia Musgrove in Monster's Ball.
• 2015The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed the aircraft, an Airbus A320, in a mass murder–suicide in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.

Born on this day

• 1874Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician and actor (died 1926)
• 1926Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
• 1930Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (died 1980)
• 1954Rafael Orozco Maestre, Colombian singer (died 1992)