Historical Events for 24th March 2026

1894 – 37 miners killed at Franklin, Washington
1956 – 110th Grand National: race best remembered for Devon Loch’s inexplicable fall on final straight, just 40 yards from a certain victory; Dave Dick wins aboard E.S.B.
1959 – Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
1962 – Mick Jagger and Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue and Blue Boys
1980 – 42nd NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA, 59-54; Cardinals’ first title in first title game
1997 – 69th Academy Awards: “The English Patient”, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win
2019 – US Attorney William Barr summarizes report submitted by Special Council Robert Mueller (The Mueller Report) in a letter to Congress stating “investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities” and “Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel’s investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense”
2023 – Africa’s first centralised biobank – Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa, collecting more than a million biodiversity samples opens in Pretoria, South Africa

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