About August 24
August 24, 2024 is the 237th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 158 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 24
- 49 BC –Julius Caesar’s general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.
- 79 –Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash (note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24).
- 410 –The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
- 1215 –Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
- 1349 –Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
- 1561 –Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
- 1608 –The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
- 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.
- 1875 –Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel
- 1891 –Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
- 1902 –A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
- 1914 –World War I: German troops capture Namur.
- 1931 –Resignation of the United Kingdom’s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
- 1936 –The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
- 1950 –Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
- 1954 –Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
- 1991 –Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1991 –Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
- 1998 –First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
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