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 236^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 11, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,266,560 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 ‘dihectatriacontahexagon’ 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 177 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 4,629 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

August 24 Historical Events

• 1200 –
  King John of England, signee of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.
• 1820 –
  Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
• 1821 –
  The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
• 1932 –
  Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
• 1941 –
  Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany’s systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
• 1942 –
  World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged.
• 1954 –
  The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
• 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.
• 1998 –
  First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
• 2004 –
  Eighty-nine passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.

Who were born on August 24?

• 1707 –
  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
• 1758 –
  Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794)
• 1905 –
  Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (d. 1976)
• 1905 –
  Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
• 1907 –
  Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect
• 1920 –
  Alex Colville, Canadian painter
• 1924 –
  Alyn Ainsworth, British bandleader (d. 1990)
• 1943 –
  Pini Zahavi, Israeli football agent
• 1963 –
  John Bush, American singer (Anthrax)
• 1979 –
  Orlando Engelaar, Dutch footballer

Who died on August 24?

• 1572 –
  Victims of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier (b. c.1535)
• 1680 –
  Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
• 1798 –
  Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
• 1832 –
  Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
• 1958 –
  Paul Henry, Northern Irish artist (b. 1876)
• 1967 –
  Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
• 2000 –
  Andy Hug, Swiss karateka and kickbox champion (b. 1964)
• 2002 –
  Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
• 2004 –
  Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
• 2006 –
  Cristian Nemescu, Romanian film director (b. 1979)