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
- 1200 –King John of England, signee of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.
- 1215 –Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
- 1349 –Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
- 1608 –The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
- 1662 –The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
- 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.
- 1820 –Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
- 1875 –Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel
- 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.
- 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.
- 1937 –In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2006 –The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term “planet” such that Pluto is now considered a Dwarf Planet.
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