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What Happened on August 24th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	Erin O’Toole is elected leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2017	The National Space Agency of Taiwan successfully launches the observation satellite Formosat-5 into space.
2016	An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as Rome and Florence. Around 300 people are killed.
2014	A magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area; it is the largest in that area since 1989.
2012	Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, is sentenced to 21 years of preventive detention.
2010	In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.
2010	Henan Airlines Flight 8387 crashes at Yichun Lindu Airport in Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, killing 44 out of the 96 people on board.
2010	Agni Air Flight 101 crashes near Shikharpur, Makwanpur, Nepal, killing all 14 people on board.
2008	Sixty-five passengers are killed when Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 crashes during an emergency landing at Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
2008	A Cessna 208 Caravan crashes in Cabañas, Zacapa, Guatemala, killing 11 people.
2006	The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.
2004	Ninety passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya.
2001	Air Transat Flight 236 loses all engine power over the Atlantic Ocean, forcing the pilots to conduct an emergency landing in the Azores.
1998	First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
1995	Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.
1992	Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, causing up to $25 billion (1992 USD) in damages.
1991	Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991	Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1989	Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
1989	Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
1981	Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
1970	Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
1967	Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
1963	Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm if he did not remove his brother Ngô Đình Nhu.
1954	The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
1954	Vice president João Café Filho takes office as president of Brazil, following the suicide of Getúlio Vargas.
1951	United Air Lines Flight 615 crashes near Decoto, California, killing 50 people.
1950	Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
1949	The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
1944	World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
1942	World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USS Enterprise is heavily damaged.
1941	The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
1938	Kweilin incident: A Japanese warplane shoots down the Kweilin, a Chinese civilian airliner, killing 14. It is the first recorded instance of a civilian airliner being shot down.
1937	Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
1937	Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
1936	The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1933	The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane.
1932	Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
1931	Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
1929	Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65–68 Jews; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.
1914	World War I: German troops capture Namur.
1914	World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
1911	Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal.
1909	Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1898	Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
1870	The Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
1857	The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.
1821	The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
1820	Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.
1816	The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.
1815	The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.
1814	British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.
1812	Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.
1789	The first naval battle of the Svensksund began in the Gulf of Finland.
1781	American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.
1743	The War of the Hats: The Swedish army surrenders to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.
1690	Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city's foundation date is unknown).
1682	William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
1662	The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
1643	A Dutch fleet establishes a new colony in the ruins of Valdivia in southern Chile.
1608	The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.
1561	Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.
1516	The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
1482	The town and castle of Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.
1349	Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1215	Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid.
1200	King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral.
1185	Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.
410	The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.
394	The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written.
367	Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.

Famous People Born on August 24

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Year	Name
1959	Meg Munn, English social worker and politician
1974	Jennifer Lien, American actress
1947	Vladimir Masorin, Russian admiral
1936	A. S. Byatt, English novelist and poet
1965	Brian Rajadurai, Sri Lankan-Canadian cricketer
1948	Kim Sung-il, South Korean commander and pilot
1945	Molly Duncan, Scottish saxophonist (d. 2019)
1787	James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor, hunter, and explorer (d. 1834)
1964	Mark Cerny, American video game designer, programmer, producer and business executive
1924	Louis Teicher, American pianist (d. 2008)

Famous People Deaths On August 24

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Date	Name
1103	Magnus Barefoot, Norwegian king (b. 1073)
1647	Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
1954	Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (b. 1882)
1217	Eustace the Monk, French pirate (b. 1170)
691	Fu Youyi, official of the Tang Dynasty
2012	Dadullah, Pakistani Taliban leader (b. 1965)
1841	Theodore Hook, English civil servant and composer (b. 1788)
1617	Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
1818	James Carr, American lawyer and politician (b. 1777)
1779	Cosmas of Aetolia, Greek monk and saint (b. 1714)