Historical timeline for March 24

OpenAI announces that their flagship Sora app and API are shutting down.

The 2024 Senegalese presidential election is held following anti-government protests.

An EF4 tornado strikes the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi, causing mass destruction.

Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive.

Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.

Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.

Kosovo War: NATO begins attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 39 people.

A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.

Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla performs the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, open fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.

Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-45.

Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with the last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.

In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.

The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.

Bangladeshi President Abdus Sattar is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Army Chief Lieutenant general Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who suspends the Constitution and imposes martial law.

El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.

Morarji Desai becomes the prime minister of India, the first prime minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.

In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a seven-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.