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

March 24: Facts & Myths About This Day

March 24 is the 84^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is March 11, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,520,640 minutes 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 ‘octacontatetragon’ day.

Aries is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,111 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

March 24: This Day In History

March 24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar.

March 24 Historical Events

• 1707 –
  The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1731 –
  Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
• 1832 –
  In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr.
• 1958 –
  Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
• 1959 –
  The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
• 1965 –
  NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
• 1986 –
  The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
• 1998 –
  A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
• 1998 –
  Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
• 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.

Who were born on March 24?

• 1803 –
  Egerton Ryerson, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1882)
• 1891 –
  Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
• 1893 –
  Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
• 1934 –
  William Smith, American actor
• 1948 –
  Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (d. 1989)
• 1953 –
  Louie Anderson, American comedian
• 1962 –
  Star Jones, American television personality
• 1970 –
  Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian football player
• 1976 –
  Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
• 1985 –
  Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model

Who died on March 24?

• 809 –
  Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (b. 763)
• 1284 –
  King Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)
• 1869 –
  Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
• 1962 –
  Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (b. 1899)
• 1980 –
  Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
• 1984 –
  Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
• 1997 –
  Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (b. 1927)
• 1999 –
  Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women’s activist (b. 1902)
• 2008 –
  Chalmers “Spanky” Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
• 2010 –
  Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)