| 96061 | August 24 | Event | 1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain. |
| 96062 | August 24 | Event | 1857 – The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history. |
| 96063 | August 24 | Event | 1870 – The Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion. |
| 96064 | August 24 | Event | 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel |
| 96065 | August 24 | Event | 1891 – Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera. |
| 96066 | August 24 | Event | 1898 – Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference. |
| 96067 | August 24 | Event | 1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. |
| 96068 | August 24 | Event | 1914 – World War I: German troops capture Namur. |
| 96069 | August 24 | Event | 1914 – World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war. |
| 96070 | August 24 | Event | 1929 – Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city. |
| 96071 | August 24 | Event | 1931 – France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty. |
| 96072 | August 24 | Event | 1931 – Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government. |
| 96073 | August 24 | Event | 1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey). |
| 96074 | August 24 | Event | 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. |
| 96075 | August 24 | Event | 1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created. |
| 96076 | August 24 | Event | 1937 – Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement. |
| 96077 | August 24 | Event | 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón. |
| 96078 | August 24 | Event | 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. |
| 96079 | August 24 | Event | 1942 – World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged. |
| 96080 | August 24 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris. |
| 96081 | August 24 | Event | 1949 – The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect. |
| 96082 | August 24 | Event | 1950 – Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations. |
| 96083 | August 24 | Event | 1954 – The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party. |
| 96084 | August 24 | Event | 1954 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho. |
| 96085 | August 24 | Event | 1963 – Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm if he did not remove hi |
| 96086 | August 24 | Event | 1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them. |
| 96087 | August 24 | Event | 1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon. |
| 96088 | August 24 | Event | 1989 – Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government. |
| 96089 | August 24 | Event | 1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti. |
| 96090 | August 24 | Event | 1989 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe. |