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
- 49 BC –Julius Caesar’s general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
- 1215 –Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
- 1682 –William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
- 1812 –Peninsula War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
- 1815 –The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
- 1816 –The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1820 –Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
- 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.
- 1914 –World War I: German troops capture Namur.
- 1929 –Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
- 1932 –Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
- 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 –The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
- 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.
- 1989 –Colombian drug barons declare “total war” on the Colombian government.
- 1998 –First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
- 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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