| March 24th 1848 | | State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
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| March 24th 1855 | | Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas
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| March 24th 1860 | | Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY
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| March 24th 1868 | | Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
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| March 24th 1877 | | University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
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| March 24th 1878 | | British frigate Eurydice sunk; 300 lost
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| March 24th 1880 | | Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT
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| March 24th 1882 | | German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
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| March 24th 1883 | | 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
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| March 24th 1887 | | Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
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| March 24th 1890 | | Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG)
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| March 24th 1894 | | 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA
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| March 24th 1898 | | 1st automobile sold
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| March 24th 1906 | | "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world
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| March 24th 1910 | | 83øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
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