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Today in History: March 24

1208 King John of England opposes Innocent III on his nomination for archbishop of Canterbury.

1663 Charles II of England awards land known as Carolina in North America to eight members of the nobility who assisted in his restoration.

1720 The banking houses of Paris close in the wake of financial crisis.

1721 In Germany, the supremely talented Johann Sebastian Bach publishes the Six Brandenburg Concertos.

1765 Britain passes the Quartering Act, requiring the colonies to house 10,000 British troops in public and private buildings.

1947 Congress proposes limiting the United States presidency to two terms.

1958 Elvis Presley trades in his guitar for a rifle and Army fatigues.

1972 Great Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.

1989 The Exxon Valdez oil tanker spills 240,000 barrels of oil in Alaska's Prince William Sound.

1999 Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

2020 Indian PM Narendra Modi orders a 21 day lockdown for world's second most populous country of 1.3 billion people to deal with COVID-19

2020 Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces postponement of Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games until summer of 2021 because of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic

Born on March 24

1755 Rufus King, framer of the U.S. Constitution.

1874 Harry Houdini, magician, escape artist.

1978 lsunurse

JOTD
A drunk staggers out of a bar and runs into two priests

A drunk staggers out of a bar and runs into two priests. He goes over to the first priest and says: “Hey, I’m Jesus Christ!”
The priest says: “No son, you’re not.”
So the drunk goes over to the second priest and says: “Man, I’m Jesus Christ!”
Then the priest says: “No son, you’re not.”
Finally, the drunk gets fed up and says: “Here, I’ll prove it.”
He walks back into the bar with both priests and the bartender looks up and sees the drunk and says: “Jesus Christ, you’re back again?!”