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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_24" title="March 24">March 24</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tuberculosis_Day" title="World Tuberculosis Day">World Tuberculosis Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1603" title="1603">1603</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">James VI of Scotland</a></b> succeeded to the thrones of England and Ireland as James I, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_the_Crowns" title="Union of the Crowns">uniting the realms under a single monarch</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860" title="1860">1860</a> – Japanese chief minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ii_Naosuke" title="Ii Naosuke">Ii Naosuke</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakuradamon_Incident_(1860)" title="Sakuradamon Incident (1860)">was assassinated</a></b> by <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C5%8Dnin" title="Rōnin">rōnin</a></i> samurai upset with his role in opening Japan to foreign powers.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946" title="1946">1946</a> – The British <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946_Cabinet_Mission_to_India" title="1946 Cabinet Mission to India">Cabinet Mission</a></b> arrived in New Delhi to discuss the transfer of power from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">the colonial government</a> to Indian leadership.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980" title="1980">1980</a> – One day after making a plea to Salvadoran soldiers to stop carrying out <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Government_Junta_of_El_Salvador" title="Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador">the government</a>'s repression, Archbishop <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93scar_Romero" title="Óscar Romero">Óscar Romero</a></b> was assassinated while celebrating <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_the_Catholic_Church" title="Mass in the Catholic Church">Mass</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Salvador" title="San Salvador">San Salvador</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a> – Led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jigme_Thinley" title="Jigme Thinley">Jigme Thinley</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druk_Phuensum_Tshogpa" title="Druk Phuensum Tshogpa">Bhutan Peace and Prosperity Party</a> won 45 of 47 seats in the country's <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Bhutanese_National_Assembly_election" title="2008 Bhutanese National Assembly election">first National Assembly election</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Ridgeway" title="Elizabeth Ridgeway">Elizabeth Ridgeway</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1684); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow" title="Henry Wadsworth Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1882); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Chastain" title="Jessica Chastain">Jessica Chastain</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1977)</p>
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