Today is Monday, March 24, the 83rd day of 2025 with 282 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter and Mars. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Aries. They include U.S. Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon in 1855; magician/escape artist Harry Houdini in 1874; actor Fatty Arbuckle in 1887; Baseball Hall of Fame member George Sisler in 1893; animator Ub Iwerks in 1901; Republican U.S. presidential candidate Thomas Dewey in 1902; bank robber Clyde Barrow in 1909; civil rights activist Dorothy Height in 1912; poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in 1919; actor Steve McQueen in 1930; TV personality Mary Berry in 1935 (age 90); fashion designer Bob Mackie in 1940 (age 85); musician Nick Lowe in 1949 (age 76); musician Dougie Thomson (Supertramp) in 1951 (age 74); fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger in 1951 (age 74); comedian Louie Anderson in 1953; actor Robert Carradine in 1954 (age 71); actor Donna Pescow in 1954 (age 71); actor/model Kelly LeBrock in 1960 (age 65); TV personality Star Jones in 1962 (age 63); WWE wrestler the Undertaker in 1965 (age 60); actor Peter Jacobson in 1965 (age 60); actor Lara Flynn Boyle in 1970 (age 55); musician Sharon Corr (Corrs) in 1970 (age 55); musician Vincent Mason, who performs under the names Maseo/P.A. Pasemaster Mase/Plug Three, (De La Soul) in 1970 (age 55); comedian Tig Notaro in 1971 (age 54); actor Megyn Price in 1971 (age 54); actor Jim Parsons in 1973 (age 52); actor Lauren Bowles in 1973 (age 52); actor Alyson Hannigan in 1974 (age 51); Football Hall of Fame member Peyton Manning in 1976 (age 49); actor Jessica Chastain in 1977 (age 48); actor Amanda Brugel in 1978 (age 47); actor Lake Bell in 1979 (age 46); musician Benj Gershman (O.A.R.) in 1980 (age 45); TV personality/dancer Val Chmerkovskiy in 1986 (age 39); actor Finn Jones in 1988 (age 37); musician Mina (Twice) in 1997 (age 28).
On this date in history:
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In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I of England died after 44 years of rule. She was succeeded by King James VI of Scotland, uniting England and Scotland under a single British monarch.
In 1934, the United States granted independence to the Philippine Islands, effective July 4, 1946.
In 1975, the beaver became the official symbol of Canada.
In 1989, the Exxon Valdez hit a reef in the Gulf of Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil in the largest oil tanker spill in U.S. history.
In 1998, four girls and a teacher at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Ark., were killed by bullets fired from a nearby wooded area. The shooters were two boys, ages 11 and 13, who were convicted as juveniles and served prison time.
In 1999, NATO airstrikes hit military targets across the Yugoslav union of Serbia-Montenegro after ethnic cleansing launched by Serbian forces against Kosovar Albanians.
In 2004, the European Commission fined software giant Microsoft $613 million for EU antitrust violations.
In 2012, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, 71, underwent heart transplant surgery at a hospital in Falls Church, Va.
In 2015, a Germanwings plane carrying 150 people, including German high school students, crashed in the French Alps in southern France. Everyone on board died.
In 2018, student activists pushed for an end to gun violence in the March for Our Lives protests across the country less than two months after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Fla., left 17 people dead.
In 2023, a powerful EF4 tornado touched down in Rolling Fork, Miss., and continued on into Silver City, Miss. The tornado -- one of many in a four-day outbreak of twisters -- remained on the ground for more than an hour, killing 17 people and injuring dozens of others.
A thought for the day: "Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals." - American activist Dorothy Height
