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 84th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 282 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 11, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,344 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 ‘octacontatetragon’ 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 311 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 4,111 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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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
- 1860 –Sakuradamon incident (1860): Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke
- 1882 –Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
- 1900 –Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground “Rapid Transit Railroad” that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- 1907 –The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
- 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.
- 1986 –The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
- 1989 –Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240000 oilbbl of petroleum after running aground.
- 1993 –Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
- 1999 –Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- 1999 –Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 38 people
Who were born on March 24?
- 1855 –Andrew Mellon, American financier (d. 1937)
- 1912 –Dorothy Height, American activist (d. 2010)
- 1919 –Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005)
- 1926 –Dario Fo, Italian writer, Nobel laureate
- 1960 –Scott Pruett, American race car driver
- 1973 –Philippe Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 –Angellica Bell, English TV presenter
- 1977 –Corneille, Rwandan/Canadian singer
- 1979 –Lake Bell, American actress
- 1982 –Christian Hug, German rugby player
Who died on March 24?
- 1381 –Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint (b. 1332)
- 1558 –Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (b. 1533)
- 1869 –Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
- 1882 –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
- 1962 –Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
- 1976 –Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)
- 1997 –Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (b. 1927)
- 2002 –César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
- 2008 –Chalmers “Spanky” Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
- 2010 –Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
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