Day Guide for Monday August 24th 2015 What are the holidays on August 24th 2015?

This is our day guide for Monday August 24th 2015 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?

Holidays on August 24th 2015

Ukraine: Independence Day

Commemoration of the Declaration of Independence from the USSR in August 1991.

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General Information for August 24th 2015
There are 1 public holidays today.
Day 236 of 2015
129 days left in 2015
Week 35 of the year
On this Day in History
1954 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
1690 - Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city has no birthday).
1349 - Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
49 BC - Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio commits suicide to avoid capture.