TV show host Carlos Cruz

Events in 1942 and 24-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Carlos Cruz

• Nazi leaders attend the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "final solution to the Jewish question," the systematic genocide of Jews known as the Holocaust.
• Declaration of United Nations is signed in Washington.

Birthday Carlos Cruz (24-3) in history

• Day 24-3 year 1603: Queen Elizabeth passed away at 69 at Richmond Palace after ruling England for more than 40 years. She is buried at Westminster Abbey, London, UK
• Day 24-3 year 1882: Robert Koch announced the discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus.
• Day 24-3 year 1949: Laurence Olivier's Hamlet became the first British film to win an Oscar.
• Day 24-3 year 1958: Rock 'n' roll star Elvis Presley joined the U.S. army for two years.
• Day 24-3 year 1989: In one of worst oil spills in recent history, the tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground and released 240,000 barrels of oil into Prince William Sound.
• Day 24-3 year 1999: NATO begins launching air strikes in an attempt to force Serbia to cease hostilities against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
• Day 24-3 year 2002: Halle Berry became the first African-American actress to win a best actress Oscar and Denzel Washington became the second African-American actor to get the best actor award.
• Day 24-3 year 2004: The notorious Bird family's more than half-century stronghold on the nation of Antigua and Barbuda came to an end when Baldwin Spencer won the post of prime minister in the general election.