August 24
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August 24 is the 236th day of the year (237th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 129 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 79 – Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. The modern city of Naples now stands on the edge of the disaster area.
- 1200 - King John of England marries Isabella of Angouleme in Bordeaux Cathedral.
- 1215 – Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid.
- 1349 - 6000 Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the Bubonic Plague.
- 1391 - Massacre on the Jewish population of Palma de Mallorca.
- 1456 – Printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.
- 1482 - The town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed are captured from Scotland by English troops.
- 1561 - William of Orange marries Anne of Saxony.
- 1572 – St. Batholomew's Day massacre: Start of a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) under the orders of King Charles IX of France.
- 1812 - Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British and Portuguese forces succeeds in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cadiz.
- 1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C., burning many buildings, including the White House.
- 1815 – The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
- 1821 - The Treaty of Cordoba is signed in present-day Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
- 1848 - The ship Ocean Monarch bursts into flames near Llandudno, north Wales. 208 people are saved by nearby ships, while 178 are killed.
- 1875 – Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first man to swim across the English Channel.
- 1891 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for the motion-picture-camera.
- 1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the construction of the Panama Canal.
- 1912 – Alaska becomes a United States territory.
- 1914 - World War I: German troops occupy Namur, Belgium.
- 1929 - 67 are killed in a massacre in Hebron, leading to the expulsion of Jews from the city.
- 1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly non-stop across the United States.
- 1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
- 1949 - The Treaty creating NATO goes into effect.
- 1954 - President of Brazil Getulio Vargas resigns and commits suicide shortly after.
- 1954 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Communist Control Act, which bans the American Communist Party.
- 1963 - The German football league, the Bundesliga, starts.
- 1968 – France explodes its first hydrogen bomb.
- 1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to at least 20 years in prison for the murder of John Lennon.
- 1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki becomes Prime Minister of Poland, becoming the first non-Communist leader of Poland in the post-World War II period.
- 1989 - Colombian drug barons declare 'total war' on Colombia's 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 Soviet Union's Communist party.
- 1991 – Ukraine declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 – Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in southern Florida as a Category 5 hurricane.
- 1994 - Initial accord between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization about partial self-rule in the Palestinians in the West Bank
- 1995 – MSN is launched.
- 2001 - Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the mid-Atlantic Ocean, making a safe emergency landing on the island of Terceira, Azores.
- 2004 – 89 people die in explosions on two jets at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport.
- 2006 – The definition of the word planet is changed, therefore stripping Pluto of its planet status, making it a dwarf planet.
- 2008 - The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing end. The host nation, the People's Republic of China, wins the most gold medals, ahead of the United States.
- 2011 - Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple Inc.. He dies six weeks later.
- 2012 - American cyclist Lance Armstrong announces that he is no-longer fighting doping allegations, and is stripped of the seven Tour de France titles he won by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
- 2012 - Anders Behring Breivik is declared sane by a court in Oslo, and sentenced to 21 years in prison for the 2011 Norway attacks, in which he had killed 77 people.
Births [change]
- 1198 – King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
- 1358 – King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
- 1393 - Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
- 1669 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (d. 1747)
- 1724 - George Stubbs, English painter (d. 1806)
- 1750 – Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1838)
- 1758 – Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1790)
- 1759 – William Wilberforce, English abolitionist (d. 1833)
- 1772 – King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1840)
- 1787 – James Weddell, English Antarctic explorer (d. 1834)
- 1816 - Daniel Gooch, English railway pioneer and mechanical engineer (d. 1889)
- 1824 - Antonio Stoppani, Italian geologist and scholar (d. 1891)
- 1855 - Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (d. 1944)
- 1865 – King Ferdinand II of Romania (d. 1927)
- 1872 - Max Beerbohm, British caricaturist (d. 1956)
- 1886 - William Gibbs, American naval architect (d. 1967)
- 1890 – Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian-American athlete (swimming and surfing) (d. 1968)
- 1893 - Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-born Israeli biochemist (d. 1978)
- 1895 - Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1970)
- 1899 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (d. 1986)
- 1899 – Albert Claude, French biologist (d. 1983)
- 1900 - Leonardo Conti, German physician and Nazi war criminal (d. 1945)
- 1905 – Arthur Crudup, American blues musician (d. 1976)
- 1905 – Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (d. 1988)
- 1907 – Bruno Giacometti, Italian sculptor (d. 2012)
- 1918 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (d. 2004)
- 1918 - Abdallah Ibrahim, Prime Minister of Morocco (d. 2005)
- 1919 - Carlos Julio Arosemana Monroy, President of Ecuador (d. 2004)
- 1922 – René Lévesque, Canadian politician (d. 1987)
- 1922 – Howard Zinn, American historian (d. 2010)
- 1927 – Harry Markowitz, American economist
- 1928 – Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer
- 1929 – Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Authority (d. 2004)
- 1932 – Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster and cardinal
- 1942 - Howard Jacobsen, British novelist and newspaper columnist
- 1942 - Max Cleland, American politician
- 1944 - Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1996)
- 1944 – Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1945 – Vince McMahon, American Professional Wrestling promoter
- 1945 - Ken Hensley, English musician (Uriah Heep)
- 1947 – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian writer
- 1947 – Joe Manchin, American politician, former Governor of West Virginia
- 1947 - Steve Pearce, American politician
- 1947 - Anne Archer, American actress
- 1947 – Roger de Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist
- 1948 – Jean-Michel Jarre, French musician
- 1948 – Alexander McCall Smith, Scottish writer and professor
- 1948 - Sauli Niinisto, 12th President of Finland
- 1953 – Sam Torrance, Scottish golfer
- 1955 – Mike Huckabee, American politician
- 1956 - John Culberson, American politician
- 1956 - Gerry Cooney, American boxer
- 1957 – Stephen Fry, British actor, comedian and writer
- 1958 – Steve Guttenberg, American actor
- 1960 – Cal Ripken, Jr., American baseball player
- 1961 – Jared Harris, English actor
- 1963 - Yrsa Sigurdardottir, Icelandic writer
- 1964 - Dana Gould, American comedian and writer
- 1964 - Salizhan Sharipov, Kyrgyz cosmonaut
- 1965 – Marlee Matlin, American actress
- 1965 - Reggie Miller, American basketball player
- 1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1972 - Jean-Luc Brassard, Canadian freestyle skier
- 1973 - Andrew Brunette, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 – David Chappelle, American comedian and actor
- 1975 - Mark de Vries, Surinamese-Dutch footballer
- 1976 - Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor
- 1977 – Robert Enke, German football goalkeeper (d. 2009)[1]
- 1977 – Juergen Macho, Austrian football goalkeeper
- 1977 – Denilson, Brazilian footballer
- 1979 – Orlando Engelaar, Dutch footballer
- 1981 - Chad Michael Murray, American actor
- 1982 - Jose Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer
- 1982 – Kim Kallstrom, Swedish footballer
- 1986 - Fabiano Santacroce, Brazilian-Italian footballer
- 1988 – Rupert Grint, British actor
- 2003 – Alexandre Coste, son of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
Deaths [change]
- 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 pirate
- 1313 - Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1278)
- 1540 – 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:
- Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
- Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
- Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier
- 1595 – Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
- 1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
- 1647 – Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
- 1664 – Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer
- 1679 – 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)
- 1759 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
- 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)
- 1841 – Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
- 1856 - William Buckland, English geologist (b. 1784)
- 1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
- 1921 – Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
- 1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (b. 1860)
- 1943 – Simone Weil, French philosopher and social activist (b. 1909)
- 1946 – James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
- 1954 – Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
- 1956 – Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese movie director (b. 1898)
- 1961 – Guenter Litfin, first shooting victim at the Berlin Wall (b. 1937)
- 1967 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
- 1975 – Éamon 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)
- 2004 – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)
- 2009 – Toni Sailer, Austrian skier (b. 1935)
Observances [change]
- National Day of Ukraine
- Christian Feast Day of Saint Bartholomew
References [change]
- ↑ "Famous Birthdays on 24th August". History Orb. 2009-08-04. http://www.historyorb.com/birthdays/august/24.
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