About August 24

August 24, 2025 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.

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Virgo is the sun 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.

What Happened On August 24

  • 1349 –
    Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
  • 1662 –
    The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
  • 1690 –
    Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday).
  • 1815 –
    The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
  • 1816 –
    The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • 1870 –
    The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
  • 1898 –
    Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
  • 1902 –
    A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
  • 1909 –
    Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • 1931 –
    France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
  • 1933 –
    The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
  • 1936 –
    The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
  • 1941 –
    Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany’s systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
  • 1950 –
    Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
  • 1954 –
    The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
  • 1981 –
    Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
  • 1989 –
    Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
  • 1991 –
    Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • 1998 –
    First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
  • 2006 –
    The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term “planet” such that Pluto is now considered a Dwarf Planet.

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