What are the important events that happened on August 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

August 24: Facts & Myths About This Day

August 24 is the 236^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 11, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,755,993,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatriacontahexagon’ day.

Virgo is the zodiac 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 177 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,629 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

August 24 Historical Events

• 1200 –
  King John of England, signee of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.
• 1662 –
  The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
• 1682 –
  William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
• 1857 –
  The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
• 1870 –
  The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
• 1891 –
  Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
• 1912 –
  Alaska becomes a United States territory.
• 1949 –
  The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
• 1963 –
  Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xa Loi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the US Embassy in Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not remove his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu.
• 1992 –
  Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.

Who were born on August 24?

• 1845 –
  James C. Calhoun, American soldier, brother-in-law of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1876)
• 1863 –
  Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (d. 1918)
• 1865 –
  King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927)
• 1872 –
  Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (d. 1956)
• 1899 –
  Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
• 1911 –
  Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (d. 1995)
• 1943 –
  John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (d. 1989)
• 1944 –
  Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
• 1956 –
  Dick Lee, Singaporean singer-songwriter
• 1957 –
  Stephen Fry, English comedian and actor

Who died on August 24?

• 1217 –
  Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate (b. c.1170)
• 1540 –
  Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
• 1664 –
  Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer (b. c.1610)
• 1679 –
  Jean François Paul de Gondi, French cardinal and agitator (b. 1614)
• 1798 –
  Thomas Alcock, English clergyman (b. 1709)
• 1888 –
  Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
• 1982 –
  Félix-Antoine Savard, French Canadian catholic priest and novelist (b. 1896)
• 2001 –
  Jane Greer, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2002 –
  Nikolay Guryanov Russian Orthodox Christian mystic and priest (b. 1909)
• 2007 –
  Aaron Russo, American film producer and director (b. 1943)