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
- 79 –Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash (note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24).
- 410 –The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
- 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.
- 1816 –The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1820 –Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
- 1821 –The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
- 1857 –The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
- 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.
- 1912 –Alaska becomes a United States territory.
- 1914 –World War I: German troops capture Namur.
- 1936 –The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
- 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.
- 1989 –Colombian drug barons declare “total war” on the Colombian government.
- 1991 –Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1991 –Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 –Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.
- 1994 –Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
- 2001 –Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
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