• Time Zone: GMT-04:00
• Time Zone ID: America/New_York
• Day numbers: 237
• Week number: 34
• Leap year: 2024 is a leap year.
• Daylight Saving Time: Yes
Sunrise, Sunset Times for Aug 24th 2024
• Sunrise time: 06:53 am
• Sunset time: 08:18 pm
• Day length: 13h 25m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase for Aug 24th 2024
• Moon Phase: Waning Gibbous
• Illumination: 65%
• Moon Age: 20.63 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
Holidays and National Days for August 24th 2024
August 24 in History
1542
In South America, Gonzalo Pizarro returns to the mouth of the Amazon River after having sailed the length of the great river as far as the Andes Mountains.
1572
Some 50,000 people are put to death in the ‘Massacre of St. Bartholomew’ as Charles IX of France attempts to rid the country of Huguenots.
1780
King Louis XVI abolishes torture as a means to get suspects to confess.
1814
British troops under General Robert Ross capture Washington, D.C., which they set on fire in retaliation for the American burning of the parliament building in York (Toronto), the capital of Upper Canada.
1847
Charlotte Bronte, using the pseudonym Currer Bell, sends a manuscript of Jane Eyre to her publisher in London.
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