A closer look at the key events on March 24 in history:
For the first time in its history, the military alliance, without a UN mandate, launched an Air campaign, Operation Allied Force, on Yugoslavia on March 24, during the Kosovo War. It suspended its operation on June 10 of that year.
NATO air raids over Belgrade, Yugoslavia, overnight 27 May 1999. EPA/Dejan_Tasic
In 1989, the Exxon Valdez Alaskan oil spill happens
A clean-up worker uses high pressure, high temperature water to wash crude oil off the rocky shore of Block Island, Sunday, April 17, 1989. AP Photo/John Gaps III
In 1965, NASA spacecraft Ranger 9 crashes into the Moon
The controlled crash was broadcasted by the Ranger 9 probe, which sent live pictures back to Earth, enabling millions of TV viewers to follow its approach to the Moon.
In 1896, the world’s first radio message is transmitted
The Russian physicist Aleksander Popov transmitted radio signals 250 meters between campus buildings in St. Petersburg University. He transmitted the words “Heinrich Hertz”.
Alexander Popov. Public Domain
In 1882, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis is discovered
The German scientist, Robert Koch, who is considered the father of modern bacteriology, presented his findings to the Berlin Society of Physiology and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1905.
Robert Kock. ZEISS Microscopsy
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