Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: August 24
August 24, 2025 is the 236th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Sunday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Virgo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 24
- 1456 –The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
- 1898 –Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
- 1902 –A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
- 1933 –The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
- 1941 –Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany’s systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
- 1949 –The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
- 1967 –Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
- 1991 –Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1992 –Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.
- 1998 –First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
Who were born on August 24?
- 1707 –Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
- 1911 –Viktor Barna, Hungarian table tennis player (d. 1972)
- 1938 –Halldór Blöndal, Icelandic politician
- 1947 –Anne Archer, American actress
- 1947 –Joe Manchin, American politician, governor and junior senator of West Virginia
- 1954 –Alain Daigle, French Canadian ice hockey player
- 1958 –Chris Offutt, American author
- 1961 –Jared Harris, English actor
- 1978 –Beth Riesgraf, American actress
- 1984 –Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player
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