About March 24
March 24, 2021 is the 83rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 282 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Aquamarine is the modern birthstone for this month. Jade is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 314 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
March 24: More About This Day
March 24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar.
What Happened On March 24
- 1401 –Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
- 1603 –Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
- 1837 –Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
- 1869 –The last of Titokowaru’s forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
- 1878 –The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
- 1882 –Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
- 1907 –The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
- 1933 –The Enabling Act of 1933 is passed by the German Reichstag, allowing Adolf Hitler to gain plenary power.
- 1934 –U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
- 1944 –World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III.
- 1946 –The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
- 1973 –Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California.
- 1976 –In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
- 1980 –Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
- 1986 –The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
- 1993 –Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
- 1998 –A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
- 1998 –Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
- 1999 –Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 38 people
- 2003 –The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
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