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 236th 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, 1,755,993,600 seconds 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.
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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.
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August 24 Historical Events
- 1391 –Jews are massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
- 1820 –Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
- 1875 –Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel
- 1949 –The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
- 1950 –Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
- 1963 –Don Schollander swims the 200-metre freestyle in less than 2 minutes for the first time, in a world record time of 1:58.
- 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.
- 1981 –Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
- 1989 –Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
- 1998 –First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
Who were born on August 24?
- 1893 –Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-born Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1978)
- 1897 –Fred Rose, American songwriter and publishing executive (d. 1954)
- 1902 –Carlo Gambino, Sicilian-born American mafioso (d. 1976)
- 1937 –Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, Nigerian politician (d. 1998)
- 1940 –Francine Lalonde, Quebec politician
- 1958 –Steve Guttenberg, American actor
- 1962 –Craig Kilborn, American talk show host
- 1975 –Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
- 1977 –Robert Enke, German footballer (d. 2009)
- 1978 –Derek Morris, Canadian ice hockey player
Who died on August 24?
- 1595 –Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
- 1683 –John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
- 1818 –James Carr, U.S. Congressman (b. 1777)
- 1841 –John Ordronaux, privateer of the War of 1812 (b. 1778)
- 1978 –Louis Prima, American band leader (b. 1910)
- 1979 –Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (b. 1912)
- 1991 –Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (b. 1904)
- 2000 –Andy Hug, Swiss karateka and kickbox champion (b. 1964)
- 2005 –Harold “Hal” Kalin, American singer (The Kalin Twins) (b. 1934)
- 2006 –Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (b. 1916)
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