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There are many events that happened on this date in history. Here are just a few of them!

March 24 is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 282 days remain until the end of the year.

HISTORICAL EVENTS

1603 - Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns.

1721 - Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates his Brandenburg Concertos (to the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt)

1837 - Canada gives black citizens the right to vote

1882 - German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB

1947 - John D. Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN

1976 - Argentine President Isabel Peron deposed by country's military

1999 - Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

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