On this day, March 24 …

2018: Spurred by a call to action from student survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 people dead, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and their supporters rally against gun violence in the streets of the nation’s capital and in cities across the country.

Also on this day:

1832: A mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacks, tars and feathers Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.

A mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacks, tars and feathers Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon. 1882: German scientist Robert Koch announces in Berlin that he has discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis.

German scientist Robert Koch announces in Berlin that he has discovered the bacillus responsible for tuberculosis. 1944: In occupied Rome, the Nazis execute more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that killed 32 German soldiers.

In occupied Rome, the Nazis execute more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that killed 32 German soldiers. 1955: The Tennessee Williams play “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” opens on Broadway.

1958: Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army at the draft board in Memphis, Tenn., before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee, Ark. (Presley would undergo basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, before being shipped off to Germany.)

1976: Isabel Peron, the president of Argentina, is deposed by her country’s military.

Isabel Peron, the president of Argentina, is deposed by her country’s military. 1988: Former national security aides Oliver L. North and John M. Poindexter and businessmen Richard V. Secord and Albert Hakim plead not guilty to charges stemming from the Iran-Contra affair.

1989: The supertanker Exxon Valdez runs aground on a reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and begins leaking an estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil.

1995: After 20 years, British soldiers stop routine patrols in Belfast, Northern Ireland.