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
- 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).
- 1215 –Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
- 1608 –The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
- 1815 –The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
- 1821 –The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
- 1831 –Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
- 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.
- 1909 –Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- 1931 –Resignation of the United Kingdom’s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
- 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.
- 1963 –Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xa Loi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the US Embassy in Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not remove his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu.
- 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 –Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 –Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.
- 2006 –The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term “planet” such that Pluto is now considered a Dwarf Planet.
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