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 83^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 282 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

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

When this day started, 1,742,774,400 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 ‘octacontatrigon’ 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 330 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 4,476 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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

• 1603 –
  Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
• 1731 –
  Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
• 1944 –
  Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
• 1944 –
  World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
• 1946 –
  The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
• 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.
• 1976 –
  In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
• 1980 –
  Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
• 1998 –
  Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
• 2003 –
  The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.

Who were born on March 24?

• 1850 –
  Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
• 1934 –
  William Smith, American actor
• 1946 –
  Klaus Dinger, German musician (d. 2008)
• 1965 –
  Peter Jacobson, American actor
• 1972 –
  Steve Karsay, American baseball player
• 1973 –
  Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
• 1976 –
  Aaron Brooks, American football player
• 1977 –
  Angellica Bell, English TV presenter
• 1979 –
  Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
• 1983 –
  Kelvin Kwan, Hong Kong singer

Who died on March 24?

• 809 –
  Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (b. 763)
• 1381 –
  Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint (b. 1332)
• 1603 –
  Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
• 1881 –
  Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
• 1888 –
  Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1915 –
  Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
• 1950 –
  James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
• 1990 –
  Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922)
• 1999 –
  Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
• 2008 –
  Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)