The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Commemoration of a person or event
Fixed Gregorian date, 24 March, every year.
Marks 24 March 1882, the day Robert Koch announced his discovery of the tuberculosis bacillus, the organism that causes tuberculosis.
This Week In Medicine History
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.