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
- 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.
- 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).
- 1814 –British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
- 1815 –The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
- 1816 –The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1831 –Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
- 1870 –The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
- 1902 –A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1981 –Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
- 1989 –Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
- 1989 –Colombian drug barons declare “total war” on the Colombian government.
- 1991 –Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1991 –Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
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