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August 24 Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining.
Events
49 BC - Julius Caesar 's general Gaius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia . Curio is slain in battle.AD 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii , Herculaneum , and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
410 - The Visigoths under Alaric sack Rome for three days.1215 - Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid.1349 - Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz because they are blamed for the bubonic plague .1391 - Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca .1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.1511 - Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers the Sultanate of Malacca .1572 - Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre : On the orders of king Charles IX of France , a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants ) begins.1608 - The first official British representative to India lands in Surat .1662 - Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer .1682 - William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware , and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania .1690 - Calcutta , India is founded.1814 - British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.1821 - The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba , now in Veracruz , Mexico , concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain .1831 - Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle .1847 - Charlotte Brontë finishes Jane Eyre .1853 - Potato chips are first prepared.1857 - The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.1858 - In Richmond, Virginia , 90 blacks are arrested for learning.1891 - Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal .1912 - Alaska becomes a United States territory.1914 - World War I : German troops capture Namur .1929 - Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty.1931 - France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.1931 - Resignation of the United Kingdom 's Second Labour Government . Formation of the UK National Government .1932 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey ).1936 - The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.1942 - World War II : The Battle of the East Solomon Islands. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho is sunk.1944 - World War II: French and Allied troops start the attack on Paris .1949 - The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.1950 - h Sampson becomess the first black U.S. delegate to the UN .1954 - The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.1954 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas , president of Brazil, commit suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho .1960 - A temperature of −88°C (−127°F) is measured in Vostok , Antarctica — a world-record low.1963 - The 200-metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time by Don Schollander (1:58).1968 - France explodes its first hydrogen bomb , thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.1979 - In Central Park , New York a concert is given by cars.1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon .1989 - Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.1989 - Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti
1989 - Voyager 2 passes Neptune .
1990 - A judge rules that Judas Priest are not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band's music.1990 - Sinéad O'Connor refuses to perform at the Garden State Arts Plaza in Holmdel, New Jersey if "The Star-Spangled Banner " is played before her show, as is customary.
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .1991 - Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union .
1992 - Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea .1992 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida
1992 - andrew hood is born
1994 - Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank .1995 - Windows 95 is released.1998 - The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 PanAm bombing.2001 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from New York) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.2003 - US Spacecraft Voyager 2 is 71 astronomical units distant from Earth and escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.3 AU per year (ca. 15 km/s). It will be approximately 40,000 years before Voyager 2 approaches another planetary system.2004 - Two airliners in Russia , carrying a total of 89 passengers, crash within minutes of each other after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport , near Moscow , leaving no survivors. Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from the breakaway republic of Chechnya to be the cause of the crashes.2005 - Peruvian airliner TANS's Flight 204 crashes in Pucallpa, killing at least 60 people.
Births
1113 - Geoffrey Plantagenet , Count of Anjou (b. 1113 )1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249 )1358 - King John I of Castile (d. 1390 )1393 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458 )1552 - Lavinia Fontana , Italian painter (d. 1614 )1580 - John Taylor , English poet (d. 1654 )1591 - Robert Herrick , English poet (d. 1674 )1635 - Peder Griffenfeld , Danish statesman (d. 1699 )1669 - Alessandro Marcello , Italian composer (d. 1747 )1759 - William Wilberforce , English campaigner against slavery (d. 1833 )1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (1814-1840)1787 - James Weddell , Antarctica explorer (d. 1834 )1817 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy , Russian writer (d. 1875 )1837 - Théodore Dubois , French composer and teacher (d. 1924 )1852 - Deacon White , baseball player (d. 1919 )1863 - Dragutin Lerman , Croatian explorer (d. 1918 )1865 - King Ferdinand I of Romania (d. 1927 )1880 - Joshua Lionel Cowen , American inventor and entrepreneur (d. 1965 )1884 - Earl Derr Biggers , American author (d. 1933 )1887 - Harry Hooper , baseball player (d. 1974 )1890 - Duke Kahanamoku , Hawaiian swimmer and surfer (d. 1968 )1890 - Jean Rhys , Dominican writer (d. 1979 )1898 - Malcolm Cowley , American literary critic, writer, and or (d. 1989 )1899 - Jorge Luis Borges , Argentine writer (d. 1986 )1901 - Preston Foster , American actor (d. 1970 )1904 - Alice White , American film actress (d. 1983 )1915 - James Tiptree, Jr. , American writer (d. 1987 )1916 - Hal Smith , American actor and voice actor (d. 1994 )1922 - Howard Zinn , American historian and activist1922 - René Lévesque , Premier of Quebec (d. 1987 )
1923 - Arthur Jensen , American psychologist1927 - Harry Markowitz , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate1929 - Yasser Arafat , Palestinian leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 2004 )1934 - Kenny Baker , English actor1936 - A. S. Byatt , English novelist1938 - David Freiberg , American bassist (Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Starship )1938 - Halldór Blöndal , Icelandic politician1943 - John Cipollina , American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service ) (d. 1989 )1945 - Ken Hensley , English musician (Uriah Heep )1945 - Vince McMahon , American professional wrestling entrepreneur
1947 - Paulo Coelho , Brazilian author1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre , French musician1951 - Orson Scott Card , American novelist1954 - Libby Mooney ,British Science educator1956 - John Culberson , American politician1957 - Stephen Fry , English comedian, author, and actor1958 - Steve Guttenberg , American actor1958 - Tracy Harris , American artist1960 - Cal Ripken, Jr. , baseball player1962 - Craig Kilborn , American talk show host1962 - David Koechner , American actor (Waitingw/.
1963 - John Bush , American singer (Anthrax )1963 - Hideo Kojima , Japanese video game director
1964 - Salizhan Sharipov , cosmonaut1965 - Marlee Matlin , American actress1965 - Reggie Miller , American basketball player
1968 - Andreas Kisser , Brazilian guitarist (Sepultura )
1968 - Shoichi Funaki , Japanese professional wrestler1973 - Carmine Giovinazzo , American actor1973 - David Chappelle , American actor and comedian1973 - Inge de Bruijn , Dutch swimmer1974 - Jennifer Lien , American actress1978 - Rafael Furcal , Dominican Major League Baseball player1979 - Phillip Dauer, World Class Jerk 1981 - Chad Michael Murray , American actor1983 - Christopher Parker , British actor1984 - Rade Kovandžić1988 - Rupert Grint , English actor and Tony McGee1990 - Michael Ruemmele, American guitarist
Deaths
79 - Pliny the Elder , Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23 )1042 - Michael V , Byzantine Emperor ) (b. 1015 )1103 - King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073 )1217 - Eustace the Monk , French mercenary and pirate1540 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola , Italian painter (b. 1503 )1542 - Gasparo Contarini , Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483 )1572 - Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
1595 - Thomas Digges , English astronomer (b. 1546 )1647 - Nicholas Stone , English sculptor and architect (b. 1586 )1664 - Maria Cunitz , Silesian astronomer1679 - Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz , French churchman and agitator (b. 1614 )1680 - Thomas Blood , Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618 )1683 - John Owen , English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616 )1779 - Kosmas Aitolos , Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714 )1831 - August von Gneisenau , Prussian field marshal (b. 1760 )1832 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot , French mathematician (b. 1796 )1888 - Rudolf Clausius , German physicist (b. 1822 )1921 - Nikolay Gumilyov , Russian poet (b. 1886 )1841 - Theodore Edward Hook , English author (b. 1788 )1940 - Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , German television pioneer (b. 1860 )1946 - James Clark McReynolds , U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862 )1954 - Getúlio Vargas , President of Brazil (b. 1882 )1956 - Kenji Mizoguchi , Japanese film director (b. 1898 )1967 - Henry J. Kaiser , American industrialist (b. 1882 )1975 - Eamon de Valera , President of Ireland (b. 1882 )1978 - Louis Prima , American band leader (b. 1910 )1979 - Hanna Reitsch , German pilot (b. 1912 )1985 - Paul Creston , American composer (b. 1906 )1990 - Sergei Dovlatov , Russian writer (b. 1941 )1991 - Bernard Castro , Italian inventor (b. 1904 )1995 - Alfred Eisenstaedt , German-born photographer (b. 1898 )1998 - E.G. Marshall , American actor (b. 1910 )2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm , baseball player (b. 1922 )2003 - Sir Wilfred Thesiger , British explorer (b. 1910 )2003 - John Jacob Rhodes, Jr., American politician and lawyer (b. 1916 )
2004 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross , Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926 )
Holidays and observances
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