TODAY IN HISTORY - MARCH 24TH

1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.

1765 – American Revolution: Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.

1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

1896 – A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.

1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

1901 – Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (d. 1971) is born.

1911 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006) is born.

1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event

1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (d. 1980) is born.

1940 – Bob Mackie, American fashion designer is born.

1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation is born.

1958 – Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.

1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.

1976 – Peyton Manning, American football player and entrepreneur is born.

1998 – Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.

2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.

2016 – Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1949) dies.