The first religious services were telecast in the United States on W2XBS (WNBC-TV) in New York City - March 24

Blind hymn writer Fanny Crosby, author of more than 9,000 hymns, is born. Her works include "Blessed Assurance" and "Rescue the Perishing."

1603 - Death of Queen Elizabeth I of England who had taken the final steps to make Anglicanism the state religion of England.

1726 - Death in Salisbury of Daniel Whitby, a clergyman of the Church of England. He had engaged in many controversies, especially against Calvinists, and had adopted Unitarian opinions. Although not the first postmillennialist, his legacy will be a systematic form of postmillennialism (the teaching that the church has supplanted Israel and that through gospel preaching Jews and Muslims will be converted, the pope destroyed, and a thousand years of righteousness will prevail on earth, followed by a short apostasy, after which Christ will finally return).

1820 - Blind hymn writer Fanny Crosby, author of more than 9,000 hymns, is born. Her works include "Blessed Assurance," "All the Way My Savior Leads Me," "To God Be the Glory," "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior," "Safe in the Arms of Jesus," "Rescue the Perishing," and "Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross.

1832 - Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) movement, is brutally beaten, tarred, and feathered in Hiram, Ohio, by an angry mob.

1842 - Lutheran pastor Friedrich Schmid establishes a training center near Ann Arbor, Michigan, to prepare missionaries for ministry to the American Indians.

1930 - The first religious services were telecast in the United States on W2XBS (WNBC-TV) in New York City.

– Sources: Christian History Institute, christianitytoday.com, onthisday.com