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
- 1731 –Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
- 1829 –Catholic Emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
- 1832 –In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.
- 1837 –Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
- 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.
- 1896 –A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
- 1907 –The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
- 1944 –Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
- 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.
- 1965 –NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
- 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.
- 1989 –Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240000 oilbbl of petroleum after running aground.
- 1993 –Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
- 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 –Kosovo War: NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- 1999 –Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 38 people
- 2000 –S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
- 2008 –Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
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