Daily Almanac: March 24, 2023

Sunrise/Sunset

RISE: 7:39 a.m.
SET: 8:01 p.m.

High/Low Temperatures:

HIGH: 50 °F
LOW: 42 °F

Today is…

• National Cheesesteak Day
• National Cocktail Day
• World Tuberculosis Day

What Happened On This Day:

• 1999 For the first time in its history, NATO attacks a sovereign country. The military alliance bombed Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War – without a UN mandate.
• 1989 Oil tanker Exxon Valdez runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The mishap resulted in one of the most devastating environmental disasters in history, killing up to 250,000 seabirds and other wildlife.
• 1882 Robert Koch discovers the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. The German scientist, who is regarded as the father of modern bacteriology, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1905

Births On This Day:

• 1930 Steve McQueen
American actor
• 1874 Harry Houdini
Hungarian/American magician, actor

Deaths On This Day:

• 1905 Jules Verne
French author
• 1603 Elizabeth I of England