What are the important events that happened on March 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
March 24: Facts & Myths About This Day
March 24 is the 84th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 282 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 11, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,520,640 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 ‘octacontatetragon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 311 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 4,111 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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March 24: This Day In History
March 24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar.
March 24 Historical Events
- 1401 –Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
- 1603 –Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
- 1837 –Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
- 1869 –The last of Titokowaru’s forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
- 1882 –Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
- 1896 –A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
- 1900 –Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground “Rapid Transit Railroad” that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- 1907 –The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
- 1965 –NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
- 1989 –Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240000 oilbbl of petroleum after running aground.
Who were born on March 24?
- 1820 –Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915)
- 1828 –Horace Gray, American jurist and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1902)
- 1893 –Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
- 1916 –Harry Blackmore Whittington, British palaeontologist (d. 2010)
- 1935 –Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
- 1961 –Dean Jones, Australian cricketer
- 1970 –Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
- 1975 –Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer and actress
- 1981 –Gary Paffett, British racing driver
- 1983 –Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
Who died on March 24?
- 809 –Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (b. 763)
- 1381 –Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint (b. 1332)
- 1773 –Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)
- 1776 –John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)
- 1921 –Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
- 1948 –Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
- 1995 –Joseph Needham, British academic and sinologist (b. 1900)
- 2001 –Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
- 2002 –César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
- 2008 –Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
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