What are the important events that happened on December 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 24: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 24 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 11, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,734,998,400 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 ‘trihectapentacontaenneagon’ day.
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Capricorn is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,386 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 24 Historical Events
- 1851 –Library of Congress burns.
- 1865 –The Ku Klux Klan is formed.
- 1911 –Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
- 1929 –Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
- 1939 –World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
- 1951 –Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
- 1955 –NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
- 1966 –A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
- 1973 –District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.
- 1980 –Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, an incident called “Britain’s Roswell”.
Who were born on December 24?
- 1809 –Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868)
- 1845 –King George I of Greece (d. 1913)
- 1923 –George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
- 1923 –Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (d. 1969)
- 1938 –Bobby Henrich, American baseball player
- 1943 –Tarja Halonen, President of Finland
- 1954 –José María Figueres, Costa Rican politician
- 1968 –Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress and model (d. 2008)
- 1974 –Ryan Seacrest, American television host
- 1992 –Melissa Suffield, English actress
Who died on December 24?
- 1863 –William Makepeace Thackeray, British writer (b. 1811)
- 1941 –Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)
- 1957 –Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1985 –Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (b. 1904)
- 1990 –Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian author (b. 1922)
- 1994 –Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor and singer (b. 1916)
- 1999 –Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (b. 1907)
- 2005 –Michael Vale, American commercial actor (b. 1922)
- 2006 –Frank Stanton, American television executive (b. 1908)
- 2008 –Harold Pinter, British playwright (b. 1930)
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