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.
- 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.
- 1923 –Greece becomes a republic.
- 1927 –Nanjing Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
- 1933 –The Enabling Act of 1933 is passed by the German Reichstag, allowing Adolf Hitler to gain plenary power.
- 1944 –Ardeatine Massacre: German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
- 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.
- 1972 –The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
- 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.
- 1989 –Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240000 oilbbl of petroleum after running aground.
- 1998 –A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
- 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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