March 24 in History Game Information Page

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March 24 in History

March 24 in History

EC created by tickman, 2 years ago in Geography

Various things that happened on the date March 24.

Map by Pietro Calogero.

Tags calogero, History, March 24, March history, tickman, tikhist

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tickman

tickman

Odd resonance of the day:

Harry Houdini born on March 24 (1874), "The Great Escape" took place on March 24 (1944); exactly 70 years apart. And on a map of this scale, the dots for those two events are adjacent.

2 years ago

tickman

tickman

For more information on this date's historical significance, see the list on the topic at Wikipedia. Enter a date (e.g., July 12) into the search box, hit return, and you'll get lots of information. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org

Special thanks to my friend Makropulos for these additional suggestions of source information, which are also used in this series:

Infoplease.com page:
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

Library of Congress "This Day in History" page:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/

New York Times "On this Day" page:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/

Historyorb.com's "Today in History" page:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/

The map I use is is by Map by Pietro Calogero, and is originally from here:
http://calogero.us/Geography/WorldLands/Map.html

It has a GNU Free Documentation License (GPL). Details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License

Special thanks to my friend Slaaty, who modified the map and provided me the ancestor of the version I use here.

2 years ago