What are the important events that happened on August 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 24: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 24 is the 237th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 11, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,740,960 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatriacontaheptagon’ day.
Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 158 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,264 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 24 Historical Events
- 49 BC –Julius Caesar’s general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
- 79 –Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash (note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24).
- 1682 –William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
- 1870 –The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
- 1944 –World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
- 1967 –Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
- 1989 –Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
- 1989 –Colombian drug barons declare “total war” on the Colombian government.
- 1991 –Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
- 1998 –First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
Who were born on August 24?
- 1837 –Théodore Dubois, French composer and teacher (d. 1924)
- 1913 –Charles Houston, American mountaineer (d. 2009)
- 1916 –Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1932 –Robert D. Hales, LDS apostle
- 1945 –Vince McMahon, American professional wrestling promoter
- 1962 –David Koechner, American actor
- 1973 –Grey DeLisle, voice actress
- 1974 –Orla Fallon, Irish Vocalist for Celtic Woman
- 1979 –Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
- 1983 –Christopher Parker, British actor
Who died on August 24?
- 1042 –Michael V, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1015)
- 1540 –Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
- 1664 –Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (b. c.1610)
- 1831 –August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
- 1841 –John Ordronaux, privateer of the War of 1812 (b. 1778)
- 1940 –Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (b. 1860)
- 1967 –Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
- 1999 –Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (b. 1929)
- 2002 –Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
- 2006 –Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b. 1979)
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