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The

INSV Tarini

• ... that this August, an all-woman crew plans to circumnavigate the globe on the Indian Navy's second ocean-going sailboat, INSV Tarini (pictured)?
• ... that Zeynab Begum was one of the most influential princesses of Iran's Safavid dynasty?
• ... that Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery is buried in the graveyard of the Church of the Holy Cross in Binsted?
• ... that the American contralto Margarethe Bence appeared as Marcellina at the Salzburg Festival, as Erda in Bayreuth, and in a premiere at the Schwetzingen Festival?
• ... that the extinct
  feral
  because of the scarcity of food in the forests of Polynesia?
• ... that Robert Lyster Thornton returned to Berkeley in 1942 to assist with the development of the calutron?
• ... that the spotted imperial pigeon's specific name carola is derived from the name of a daughter of the ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte?
• ... that Edward Hutchinson Synge described a theory for a near-field scanning optical microscope in a letter to Albert Einstein fifty years before various corporations sought patents on the technology?

The Palace of Westminster

• A terrorist attack at the Palace of Westminster (pictured), London, results in five people dead and more than forty injured.
• The
  World Baseball Classic
  .
• French mathematician Yves Meyer is awarded the Abel Prize for his work on the mathematical theory of wavelets.
• American guitarist, singer, and rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry dies at the age of 90.
• An airstrike on a mosque in the rebel-held al-Jinah village near Aleppo
  kills at least forty-two people and injures more than one hundred others.
• The
  Dutch general election, but the governing coalition
  loses its majority.

March 24: World Tuberculosis Day

Exxon Valdez aground

• 1860 – Rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain assassinated Japanese Chief Minister Ii Naosuke, upset with his role in the opening of Japan to foreign powers.
• 1882 – German physician Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a bacterium that causes tuberculosis.
• 1934 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act came into effect, which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence from the United States after a period of ten years.
• 1989 – The tanker Exxon Valdez (pictured) spilled 10.8 million US gallons (260,000 bbl; 41,000 m³) of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing one of the most devastating man-made maritime environmental disasters.
• first-ever general election
  .

William Morris (b. 1834) · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (d. 1882) · David Irving (b. 1938)

Meryl Streep

American actress