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

• 1829 –
  Catholic Emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
• 1837 –
  Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
• 1882 –
  Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
• 1933 –
  The Enabling Act of 1933 is passed by the German Reichstag, allowing Adolf Hitler to gain plenary power.
• 1944 –
  Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
• 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.
• 1993 –
  Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
• 1999 –
  Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 38 people
• 2008 –
  Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.

Who were born on March 24?

• 1628 –
  Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)
• 1755 –
  Rufus King, American politician (d. 1827)
• 1820 –
  A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
• 1903 –
  Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar (d. 1990)
• 1910 –
  Richard Conte, American actor (d. 1975)
• 1954 –
  Robert Carradine, American actor
• 1960 –
  Kelly LeBrock, American actress
• 1965 –
  The Undertaker, American professional wrestler
• 1983 –
  Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
• 1984 –
  Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French footballer

Who died on March 24?

• 1396 –
  Walter Hilton, English mystic (b. 1340)
• 1980 –
  Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
• 1991 –
  Sir John Kerr, Australian Governor-General (b. 1914)
• 1995 –
  Joseph Needham, British academic and sinologist (b. 1900)
• 1999 –
  Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
• 2003 –
  Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
• 2006 –
  Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
• 2008 –
  Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2010 –
  Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
• 2010 –
  Johnny Maestro, American singer (b. 1939)