MH370 vanished in March 2014, with Malaysian Airlines Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah dying alongside 238 passengers and crew, including six Australians. (Nine)
CAIRO – 24 March 2022: In the following lines, ET sheds light on the most important world events that took place on March 24.
625 - The departure of the Prophet Mohammad [SAW] with his companions after their return from the Battle of Uhud to Hamra al-Assad.
809 - Abu Abdullah Mohammad al-Amin assumes the caliphate after the death of his father, Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
1401 - The Mongol-Turkish Shah, Tamerlane, conquers Damascus.
1603 - James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England after the death of Elizabeth I of England.
1837 - Canada grants its African citizens the right to vote.
1882 - German explorer Robert Koch discovers the microbe that causes tuberculosis.
1923 - The Republic of Greece is established.
1985 - An explosion occurred at Friday prayers in Tehran during Ali Khamenei's sermon. As a result, 14 people were killed and 88 wounded. This led Khamenei to join the People's Mojahedin Organization.
1989 - The oil tanker "Exxon Valdez" sank off the coast of Alaska, spilling 40,000 tons of crude oil along 1,700 km of coastline and causing an environmental disaster.
1990 - The creation of the "Economic Union of the Arab Maghreb" for Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania and Libya.
1999 - NATO planes bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
2014 - Malaysia Airlines announces that Flight 370, which went missing on March 8, crashed in the South Indian Ocean waters off the coast of Western Australia, with no survivors.
2015 - Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, with 150 people on board.
2016 - The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentences General Radovan Karadzic to 40 years in prison for genocide during the Yugoslav wars.
Court of Arbitration for Sport strips Russian sprinter Yulia Zarbova of her titles won between 2011 and 2013. Thus, Tunisian Habiba Ghribi officially becomes the world champion in athletics in 2011, as well as the gold medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
2020 - The International Olympic Committee decides to postpone the Summer Olympics in Tokyo to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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