About August 24
August 24, 2020 is the 237th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 172 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 24
- 1215 –Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
- 1456 –The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
- 1682 –William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
- 1690 –Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday).
- 1812 –Peninsula War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
- 1814 –British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
- 1820 –Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
- 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.
- 1898 –Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
- 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.
- 1931 –Resignation of the United Kingdom’s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
- 1932 –Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
- 1944 –World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
- 1949 –The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
- 1981 –Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
- 1991 –Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1992 –Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.
- 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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