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| March 24 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 272 days remaining until the end of time. |
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| 1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers. Undoubtedly, some of the colonists looked forward to having guests in their homes. |
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| 1832 Mormon Joseph Smith is beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio, but not enough |
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| 1837 Canada gives black men the right to vote and just look who gets to be Governor-General?!?!? |
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| 1877 University boat race between Oxford and Cambridge ends in a dead heat, but it doesn’t stop the trash talk |
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| 1955 Tennessee Williams "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances. What’s troubling poor Brick? |
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| 1958 Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army. |
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| 1987 ACT UP's first demonstration on Wall Street, in New York City. Over 250 protested the FDA's sweetheart deal with Burroughs Wellcome to charge $10,000 a year for the only approved anti-AIDS drug, AZT. Silence = Death. |
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| 1992 A Chicago judge settles the Milli-Vanilli class-action suit by approving cash rebates of up to $3 to anyone proving they bought the group's music before November 27, 1990 — the date the lip synching scandal broke. |
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| 1996 Eastenders star Michael French is outed by the Sunday Mirror. |
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| 2001 During an exhibition game against the Giants, National League Cy Young winner Diamondback hurler Randy Johnson's fastball hits and instantly kills a dove flying in front of home plate. The bird appears to explode. |
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| 1874 Harry Houdini [Erik Weisz], Hungarian-born US magician/escape artist/actor/debunker |
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| Houdini with the next birthday boy. . . |
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| 1887 Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, US actor/director/writer/Acquitted of any wrongdoing /career was still ruined/he used the pseudonym "William Goodrich" thereafter |
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| 1909 Clyde Barrow, bank robber/Teamed notoriously with Bonnie Parker/not nearly as pretty as Warren Beatty |
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| 1930 Steve McQueen, US actor |
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| 1940 Bob Mackie, Cher's favorite bisexual US fashion designer |
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| 1945 Curtis Hanson, maybe gay <wink><wink> US director/writer |
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| 1953 Louie Anderson, maybe gay <wink><wink> US comedian |
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| 1954 Robert Carradine, US actor NERRRRRDSSS!! |
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| 1965 Peter Jacobson, US actor / House/ NOT Peter Marc Jacobson Fran Drescher’s gay ex-husband |
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| 1967 Mark Anthony, Welsh porn star |
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| 1970 Jeff Lewis, high-strung hyperactive gay US real estate flipper |
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| 1972 Gabriel Olds, US actor |
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| 1973 Jim Parsons, maybe gay <wink><wink> US actor/Big Bang Theory |
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| 1976 Peyton Manning, very rich but old US quarterback |
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| 1981 Philip Winchester, actor |
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| 1603 Elizabeth I Tudor, queen of England (1558-1603), bursts off the scene |
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| 1905 Jules Verne, French sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), gets to heaven much faster |
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| 2010 Robert Culp, US actor (I Spy, The Greatest American Hero, Everybody Loves Raymond), indulges in his favorite deadly sins |
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| 2011 Lanford Wilson, gay US playwright, checks out of the Hot l Baltimore |
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