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This is a list of selected March 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice in Argentina stub
1721Johann Sebastian Bach presented Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt with six concertos, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos. refimprove section
1927 – Following the capture of Nanjing by an alliance of Nationalist and Communist forces, British and American warships bombarded the city in defence of foreign citizens there. refimprove
1944World War II: German occupation troops killed 335 people in Rome as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day against the SS Police Regiment Bozen. refimprove section
1944Second World War: Captured Allied airmen began "the Great Escape", breaking out of the German prison camp Stalag Luft III. refimprove section
1965NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on television, brought images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash-landing. single source
1976 – Led by Jorge Rafael Videla, the Argentine military deposed President Isabel Perón in a coup d'état, established a military junta known as the National Reorganization Process, and began state-sponsored violence against dissidents known as the Dirty War. citations needed
1999Kosovo War: NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. refimprove section
2015 – The co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed the aircraft in a mass murder–suicide in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. section needs cleanup
* 1550Anglo-Scottish Wars: England and Scotland signed the Treaty of Boulogne, ending hostilities between the two nations in the Rough Wooing. Source cited (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1982.tb01144.x) says "peace treaty signed on 25 March"
* 1989 – The tanker Exxon Valdez began to spill 10.8 million US gal (260,000 bbl; 41,000 m3) of crude oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing one of the most devastating man-made maritime environmental disasters. Citations needed

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March 24: World Tuberculosis Day

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