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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