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Highlights in History Which Occur August 24:
79 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum
410 Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
1215 Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
1217 Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1349 6,000 Jews are blamed for the plagued are killed in Mainz
and Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1391 Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
1511 Portugese troops under Afonso the Albuquerque occupy Malakka
1516 Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria
1542 Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain
1561 Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon
1572 King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
1608 1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1654 Louis II Cond‚ disbands ends of Atrecht
1658 Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish
1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
1682 Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1690 Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
1704 Sea battle at Malaga
1751 Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
1787 Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
1814 British sack Washington, DC, White House burned
1826 Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens
1828 Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
1831 John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
1833 HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1847 Charlotte Bront‰ finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY)
1854 National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
1858 Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1867 J C Watson discovers asteroid #93 Minerva
1869 Waffle iron invented
1876 Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
1891 Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1893 Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston; about 1000 die
1903 M Wolf discovers asteroid #513 Centesima & #514 Armida
1904 Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
and Holcombe Ward wins the US Tennis Open
1905 Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
1906 Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
1908 Heavyweight Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in Sydney NSW
1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1911 Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1912 NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians
and Territory of Alaska organized
and US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition govt
1914 Battle at Bergen: Belgium vs Britain
and German troops occupy Names Belgium
and Jerome Kern & Michael E Rourles musical premieres in NYC
1918 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1921 Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece
and British airship R-38 crashes in Humber; 44 die
1922 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)
1923 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
1929 Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
and Turkey & Persia signs peace treaty
1931 France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty
1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1933 S Arend discovers asteroid #1313 Berna
1936 Australian Antarctic Territory created
and FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists & communists
and K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2137 Priscilla
1937 Republican offensive at Belchite Spain
1939 Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1940 Luftwaffe bombs London
1942 Sea battle at Eastern Solomon Island
and Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1944 Gen LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forms
1950 1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
and Edith Sampson named 1st black US delegate to UN
and Operation Magic Carpet-45,000 Yemenite Jews move to Israel
1954 Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
and International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
and William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London
1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
1957 British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1958 Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0)
1959 Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel
K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
1960 -127øF (-88øC), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
and 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
1961 Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms
Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister
and of justice (if the shoe fits...)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
and John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
1964 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 6-4
1966 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1967 Liberian flag designed
1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
and France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1969 Peru nationalizes US oil interests
1970 Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
1972 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1
and Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
1973 John Adams & his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleve Stadium
1974 L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3770
1975 Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
and SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
and Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1978 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
and UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
1980 Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
1981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
and Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder
1984 Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
and T Seki discovers asteroid #3431 Nakano
1985 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
and Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
and Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1990 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
and Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
1991 Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
and Ukraine declares independence from USSR
1992 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
and Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
and Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
1993 Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
1994 Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
and Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
1995 Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
and Windows 95 debuts
-79 Mount Vesuvius erupts burying Pompeii & Herculaneum.
1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil.