What happened this day in history August 24

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, 487,776 hours 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

  • 1215
    Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
  • 1349
    Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
  • 1561
    Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
  • 1608
    The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
  • 1814
    British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
  • 1815
    The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
  • 1909
    Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • 1912
    Alaska becomes a United States territory.
  • 1950
    Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
  • 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.

Who were born on August 24?

  • 1707
    Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
  • 1759
    William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (d. 1833)
  • 1911
    Michel Pablo, Greek Trotskyist leader (d. 1996)
  • 1938
    Mason Williams, American guitarist and composer
  • 1944
    Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
  • 1947
    Anne Archer, American actress
  • 1947
    Joe Manchin, American politician, governor and junior senator of West Virginia
  • 1963
    Hideo Kojima, Japanese video game director
  • 1968
    Benoît Brunet, French Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1983
    Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player

Who died on August 24?

  • 1664
    Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (b. c.1610)
  • 1679
    Jean François Paul de Gondi, French cardinal and agitator (b. 1614)
  • 1779
    Saint Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
  • 1888
    Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
  • 1921
    Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
  • 1977
    Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1916)
  • 1991
    Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (b. 1904)
  • 2001
    Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
  • 2003
    Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910)
  • 2010
    Satoshi Kon, Japanese film director (b. 1963)

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