March 24

On This Day In History
	1989: Exxon Valdez Alaskan oil spill On this day in 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground, spilling some 11 million gallons (41 million litres) of oil into Prince William Sound in Alaska and creating the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
Worker cleaning a rock on the beach of Green Island, Alaska, after the Exxon
Biography Of The Day
	Harry Houdini American magician Harry Houdini, born this day in 1874, earned an international reputation for his daring feats of extrication from shackles, ropes, and handcuffs and from locked containers such as coffins and prison cells.
Harry Houdini as Harvey Hanford in the film The Grim Game, c. 1919
More Events On This Day In History
	2002 Film stars Denzel Washington and Halle Berry became the second and third African Americans to win Academy Awards for performances in leading roles.
	1945 With the debut of the Billboard magazine pop album chart, American pianist and singer Nat King Cole's King Cole Trio became the first record album to appear at No. 1.
	1905 Pioneering French science-fiction author Jules Verne died in Amiens, France.
	1882 Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had isolated and grown the tubercle bacillus, which he believed to be the cause of all forms of tuberculosis.
1603	1603 King James VI of Scotland ascended the English throne as James I following the death of Elizabeth I.