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This Date in History - August 24th
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* 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.
* 79 Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
* 410 The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days.
* 1200 King John of England, signee of the first Magna Carta, married Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.
* 1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
* 1349 Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
* 1391 Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
* 1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
* 1511 Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.
* 1561 Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
* 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: On the orders of king Charles IX of France, a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) begins.
* 1608 The first official English 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.
* 1815 The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
* 1816 The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
* 1820 Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.
* 1821 The Treaty of Cσrdoba is signed in Cσrdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
* 1831 Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
* 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.
* 1870 The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
* 1875 Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel
* 1891 Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
* 1892 Goodison Park in Liverpool, England, one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds, opens.
* 1898 Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presented a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
* 1902 A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moϋtier.
* 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.
* 1929 Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
* 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.
* 1937 In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoρa Agreement.
* 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier Enterprise heavily damaged.
* 1944 World War II: Allied troops start the attack on Paris.
* 1949 The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
* 1950 Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the UN.
* 1954 The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
* 1954 Getϊlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by Joγo Cafι Filho.
* 1960 A temperature of −88°C (−127°F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica a world-record low.
* 1963 Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xa Loi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cabled the US Embassy in Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not remove his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu.
* 1963 The 200-metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time by Don Schollander (1:58).
* 1967 Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupt trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up.
* 1968 France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
* 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.
* 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 as a Category 5 Hurricane.
* 1994 Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
* 1995 Computer software developer Microsoft releases their Windows 95 operating system.
* 1998 The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
* 1998 First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
* 2000 Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of Helsinki by Finnish scientists.
* 2001 Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
* 2004 Eighty-nine passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
* 2006 The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.
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This Date in History - August 24th
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* 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.
* 79 Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.
* 410 The Visigoths under Alaric begin to pillage Rome for three days.
* 1200 King John of England, signee of the first Magna Carta, married Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.
* 1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid.
* 1349 Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
* 1391 Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
* 1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
* 1511 Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca.
* 1561 Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
* 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: On the orders of king Charles IX of France, a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) begins.
* 1608 The first official English 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.
* 1815 The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
* 1816 The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
* 1820 Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal; see Portugal's crises of the Nineteenth Century.
* 1821 The Treaty of Cσrdoba is signed in Cσrdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
* 1831 Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
* 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.
* 1870 The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
* 1875 Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim English Channel
* 1891 Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
* 1892 Goodison Park in Liverpool, England, one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds, opens.
* 1898 Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presented a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
* 1902 A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moϋtier.
* 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.
* 1929 Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
* 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.
* 1937 In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoρa Agreement.
* 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier Enterprise heavily damaged.
* 1944 World War II: Allied troops start the attack on Paris.
* 1949 The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
* 1950 Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the UN.
* 1954 The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
* 1954 Getϊlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by Joγo Cafι Filho.
* 1960 A temperature of −88°C (−127°F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica a world-record low.
* 1963 Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xa Loi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cabled the US Embassy in Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not remove his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu.
* 1963 The 200-metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time by Don Schollander (1:58).
* 1967 Led by Abbie Hoffman, a group of hippies temporarily disrupt trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing a cease in trading as the brokers scramble to grab them up.
* 1968 France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
* 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.
* 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 as a Category 5 Hurricane.
* 1994 Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
* 1995 Computer software developer Microsoft releases their Windows 95 operating system.
* 1998 The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 Pan Am bombing.
* 1998 First RFID human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
* 2000 Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of Helsinki by Finnish scientists.
* 2001 Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.
* 2004 Eighty-nine passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
* 2006 The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is considered a Dwarf Planet.
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