About December 24
December 24, 2024 is the 359th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 7 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 36 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 24
- 1294 –Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.
- 1814 –The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812.
- 1826 –The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
- 1865 –The Ku Klux Klan is formed.
- 1906 –Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
- 1911 –Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
- 1913 –The Italian Hall Disaster (“1913 Massacre”) in Calumet, Michigan, results in the death of 73 Christmas party goers held by striking mine workers, including 59 children.
- 1914 –World War I: The “Christmas truce” begins.
- 1924 –Albania becomes a republic.
- 1939 –World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
- 1941 –World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
- 1942 –World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers.
- 1951 –Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
- 1953 –Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people.
- 1966 –A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
- 1968 –Apollo Program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.
- 1973 –District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.
- 1974 –Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
- 1979 –The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
- 2008 –Lord’s Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.
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