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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48166)	3/24/2005 3:47:53 AM
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Today in history-March 24: 1603 - King James I became the first British monarch to reign in Scotland, England and Ireland simultaneously. 1882 - Robert Koch announced the discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. 1944 - World War II: Captured Allied soldiers began "the Great Escape", breaking out of Stalag Luft III, a prison camp operated by the Luftwaffe. 1976 - Dirty War: President Isabel Perón of Argentina was kidnapped and deposed in a bloodless coup d'état. 1989 - The tanker Exxon Valdez spilled more than 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a major environmental disaster.