Historical anniversaries in 2024 (USA edition) • ideas4writers

The Date-A-Base Book 2024: 3,000 historical anniversaries in 2024

Now includes a free Excel spreadsheet
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More than 3,000 historical anniversaries in 2024.

Includes significant historical events, inventions, discoveries, and famous births and deaths.

Fully cross-checked for accuracy.

Perfect for writers, journalists, broadcasters, producers, production companies, and event planners.

Packed with ideas for newspaper and magazine articles, TV and radio features, films and documentaries, and more.

Ideal for “On This Day in History” features and historical anniversary tie-ins.

Size: 11.5″ x 8.5″ (Letter). 242 pages.

E-book: $16.19 (approx.)
PDF format + free Excel spreadsheet.
(View or print with the free Adobe Reader.)

Paperback: $14.99 (approx.)

Product details

This book gives details of more than 3,000 newsworthy and notable historical anniversaries in 2024.

Every entry has been fully cross-checked with official sources for complete accuracy.

We only list significant anniversaries (for example 10, 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200 years ago) not 17, 54 or 101 years ago.

NOTE:

If you buy the e-book edition you will receive two volumes: the anniversaries listed in chronological order and sorted by date. (See the sample pages below.)

You will also receive a free Excel spreadsheet so you can sort, group and search the anniversaries however you like.
If you buy the printed edition the anniversaries are only listed in chronological order.

We will be happy to send you the e-book version of the sorted-by-date edition plus the spreadsheet too,
for no extra charge. Just send us a message (mail@ideas4writers.com) with your proof of purchase.

17th annual edition.

Sample pages
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Sample page (chronological order)

Anniversary	Date	Event
700	Jan 8, 1324	Death of Marco Polo, Venetian/Italian merchant, explorer and writer. Best known for his book The Travels of Marco Polo, which details his travels along the Silk Road in Asia.
400	Jan 3, 1624	Birth of William Tucker, the first African-American born in America.
400	Jan 9, 1624	Birth of Meishō, Empress of Japan (1629–43).
400	Jan 15, 1624	The 1624 Tumult of Mexico. Riots broke out in Mexico following a rift between the Viceroy, Carrillo de Mendoza, and the Archbishop of Mexico, Juan Pérez de la Serna. The Viceroy was overthrown, and the Archbishop was assigned to another diocese in Spain in November.
300	Jan 15, 1724	Philip V, King of Spain abdicated and was succeeded by his son Louis I. Louis died in August, and Philip resumed the throne in September.
250	Jan 21, 1774	Death of Mustapha III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) (1757–74). Succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I.
200	Jan 8, 1824	Birth of Wilkie Collins, British novelist and playwright. Best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone – which is regarded is the first modern British detective novel. He also collaborated with Charles Dickens.
200	Jan 10, 1824	Death of Victor Emanuel I, King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy (1802–21 – abdicated).
200	Jan 21, 1824	Birth of Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, Confederate general during the American Civil War.
200	Jan 22, 1824	First Anglo–Ashanti War – the Battle of Nsamankow (Ghana). Ashanti victory. The British troops and their allies, numbering fewer than 500 people, stood little chance against more than 10,000 Ashanti forces.
175	Jan 13, 1849	The Colony of Vancouver Island was established. It merged with the Colony of British Colombia in 1866, and became part of Canada in 1871.
175	Jan 18, 1849	Birth of Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister of Australia (1901–03) and one of the three founding members of the High Court of Australia.
175	Jan 22, 1849	Second Anglo–Sikh War – the Siege of Multan ended after nine months. British victory. (See also: 21^st February 1849.)
175	Jan 23, 1849	Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in the USA to receive a medical degree.
175	Jan 26, 1849	Death of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, British poet, playwright and doctor. Noted for his obsession with death. (Suicide, aged 45.)
150	Jan 1, 1874	The Bronx was annexed by New York City.
150	Jan 5, 1874	Birth of Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist. Noted for his work on neuroscience. Joint winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his study of nerve fibres.
150	Jan 16, 1874	Birth of Robert W. Service, (‘the Bard of the Yukon’), British-born Canadian poet, writer and traveller. Best known for his poems about the Klondike Gold Rush.

Sample page (sorted by date)

Anniversary	Date	Event
150	Jan 1, 1874	The Bronx was annexed by New York City.
100	Jan 1, 1924	Frank B. Cooney was granted a U.S. patent for ink paste, which is widely used in the printing industry. (U.S. patent 1,479,533).
90	Jan 1, 1934	Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, USA became a federal prison. The prison opened in August 1934 and closed in 1963.
90	Jan 1, 1934	The Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring came into effect in Nazi Germany. Any citizen found to be suffering from a genetic disorder was compulsorily sterilised. Over 400,000 people were sterilised against their will. Many of the disorders were not actually genetic.
90	Jan 1, 1934	The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) began operating in the USA. It guarantees the safety of deposits held by member banks.
90	Jan 1, 1934	Baseball: the American League and the National League in the USA both agreed to use a standardised ball.
80	Jan 1, 1944	Death of Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect. Best known for his work in designing the city of New Delhi in India.
75	Jan 1, 1949	The British Nationality Act came into effect. It established the status of ‘Citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies’, and granted those citizens the right to enter and live in the United Kingdom.
75	Jan 1, 1949	The undeclared war between India and Pakistan ended when the United Nations negotiated a cease-fire in Kashmir.
70	Jan 1, 1954	The first coast-to-coast colour TV broadcast in the USA: the Tournament of Roses Parade on NBC. The Rose Bowl and Cotton Bowl were broadcast later that day and were the first sports events to be broadcast coast-to-coast in colour.
65	Jan 1, 1959	Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, overthrowing Fulgencio Batista and ending the revolution. This led to a severing of U.S.–Cuban relations. A trade embargo was imposed against Cuba from October 1960, extended in 1962, and extended to a total embargo in 2000.
50	Jan 1, 1974 to Mar 6	A three-day working week was introduced in the UK to conserve coal supplies (used by power stations) during a miners’ strike.
40	Jan 1, 1984	Brunei gained its independence from the UK.
40	Jan 1, 1984	The American communications giant AT&T Bell was broken up into 22 separate companies under the terms of a 1974 antitrust agreement.
40	Jan 1, 1984	Death of Alexis Korner, British blues musician and broadcaster.
30	Jan 1, 1994	The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect. It eliminated most tariffs and trade barriers on products and services passing between the USA, Canada and Mexico.
30	Jan 1, 1994	Bill Gates, the co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, married Microsoft executive Melinda French. (They filed for divorce in 2021.)
30	Jan 1, 1994	Death of Cesar Romero, American actor. Best known for his role as the Joker in the 1960s television series Batman.
25	Jan 1, 1999	The euro officially became the new currency in 11 European countries. (Coins and banknotes entered circulation in January 2002.)

Reminder: the e-book edition includes both versions: chronological and sorted by date, plus a free Excel spreadsheet.

Customer reviews

Browse through the dates and names and let your imagination go in to overdrive. These are “must have” lists for you reference library. The allure of these people, places and times are indeed a Pandora’s Box for the enquiring mind of storytellers everywhere. Just the gift for a fellow writer.
Frances Johnson, Gold Coast Writers’ Association, Queensland, Australia.

What a magnificent tool. It’s easy to find out what happened on a particular day or month. Or you can dip straight in and find something to write about and, with your own added research, submit your work well ahead of the game. The information can also be used for quizzes, authenticating historical articles, and a multitude of other formats. Go for it!
Dee Watson, Writer, Editor, Proofreader and Reviewer

Magazines have notoriously long lead-in times, so if you’re an aspiring (or indeed successful) writer of articles you need to be looking well ahead for that all-important “hook” to get the editor interested. That’s where The Date-A-Base Book comes in. Hundreds of notable events, births, deaths, anniversaries of myriad kind from 10 years ago to 1000 years ago. Whatever your area of interest you’ll find something in here to get you started, or to flesh out your background or your characters, or to use in your marketing. The only problem with it is that you might get too engrossed in the who, what, where, and when to actually do any writing.
Lesley Mason