About March 24
March 24, 2024 is the 84th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 282 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 311 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.
- 1707 –The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
- 1765 –American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
- 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.
- 1896 –A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
- 1927 –Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
- 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.
- 1958 –Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
- 1959 –The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
- 1972 –The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
- 1980 –Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 –Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
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