About August 24
August 24, 2024 is the 237th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 158 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 24
- 410 –The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
- 1608 –The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
- 1682 –William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
- 1816 –The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1831 –Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
- 1875 –Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel
- 1891 –Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
- 1902 –A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
- 1914 –World War I: German troops capture Namur.
- 1932 –Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1942 –World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged.
- 1949 –The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
- 1954 –Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
- 1963 –Don Schollander swims the 200-metre freestyle in less than 2 minutes for the first time, in a world record time of 1:58.
- 1981 –Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
- 1989 –Colombian drug barons declare “total war” on the Colombian government.
- 1998 –First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
- 2004 –Eighty-nine passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
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