| 32731 | March 24 | Event | 1972 – The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland. |
| 32732 | March 24 | Event | 1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles. |
| 32733 | March 24 | Event | 1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Tru |
| 32734 | March 24 | Event | 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. |
| 32735 | March 24 | Event | 1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites. |
| 32736 | March 24 | Event | 1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground. |
| 32737 | March 24 | Event | 1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. |
| 32738 | March 24 | Event | 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. |
| 32739 | March 24 | Event | 1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others. |
| 32740 | March 24 | Event | 1998 – First Computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany |
| 32741 | March 24 | Event | 1999 – Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 39 people. |
| 32742 | March 24 | Event | 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO commences aerial bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. |
| 32743 | March 24 | Event | 2000 – S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years. |
| 32744 | March 24 | Event | 2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq. |
| 32745 | March 24 | Event | 2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election. |
| 32746 | March 24 | Event | 2014 – A train overruns the buffers at Chicago O'Hare Airport station, injuring 32 people. |
| 32747 | March 24 | Event | 2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board. |
| 32748 | March 24 | Birth | 1494 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555) |
| 32749 | March 24 | Birth | 1607 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667) |
| 32750 | March 24 | Birth | 1628 – Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1685) |
| 32751 | March 24 | Birth | 1657 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese academic and politician (d. 1725) |
| 32752 | March 24 | Birth | 1693 – John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer (d. 1776) |
| 32753 | March 24 | Birth | 1725 – Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813) |
| 32754 | March 24 | Birth | 1725 – Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788) |
| 32755 | March 24 | Birth | 1740 – John Antes, American missionary and composer (d. 1811) |
| 32756 | March 24 | Birth | 1755 – Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 1827) |
| 32757 | March 24 | Birth | 1762 – Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and composer (d. 1830) |
| 32758 | March 24 | Birth | 1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (d. 1835) |
| 32759 | March 24 | Birth | 1782 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter (d. 1836) |
| 32760 | March 24 | Birth | 1796 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1878) |