Notable Historical Events on August 24th
August 24th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
49 |
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. |
BC AD | |
79 |
Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die |
410 |
Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire |
1215 |
Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid |
1217 |
Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France |
1349 |
6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz |
1349 |
Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism |
1391 |
Jews of Palma Majorca massacred |
1456 |
The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed. |
1511 |
Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Sultanate of Malacca. |
1516 |
Battle of Battle of Marj Dabiq: the Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate |
1542 |
Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain |
1572 |
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces |
1608 |
1st English convoy lands at Surat, India |
1654 |
Louis II Condé 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 |
Battle of Malaga, the largest naval battle in the War of the Spanish Succession; Tactically indecisive; Grand Alliance strategic victory |
1751 |
Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch |
1787 |
Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526 |
1814 |
British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks (War of 1812) |
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. |
1826 |
Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Liege) 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 Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre" |
1853 |
1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, NY) |
1854 |
National emigration convention meets in Cleveland |
1857 |
The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history. |
1858 |
Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning |
1869 |
Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron |
1870 |
The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion. |
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 |
1904 |
24th US Men's Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (10-8 6-4 9-7) |
1904 |
Battle of Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian, Japanese tactical victory |
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 |
Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title |
1908 |
NY Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at Madison Square Garden |
1909 |
Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal |
1911 |
Manuel d'Arriaga elected first president of Portugal |
1912 |
NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US Olympians |
1912 |
District of Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States |
1912 |
US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government |
1914 |
Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops |
1914 |
German troops occupy Namur, Belgium |
1914 |
Jerome Kern & Michael E Rourles musical premieres in NYC |
1918 |
Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2) |
1918 |
Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players |
1919 |
Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning |
1921 |
Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece |
1921 |
British airship R-38 crashes in River Humber, 44 die |
1922 |
1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams) |
1923 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2) |
1925 |
39th US Women's Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (3-6 6-0 6-2) |
1929 |
43rd US Women's Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (6-4 6-2) |
1929 |
Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem |
1929 |
Turkey & Persia signs friendship treaty |
1931 |
France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty |
1932 |
1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart |
1936 |
Australian Antarctic Territory created |
1936 |
FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists & communists |
1937 |
Republican offensive near Belchite, Spain |
1937 |
In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement. |
1938 |
England beat Australia by an innings & 579 runs at The Oval |
1938 |
Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game |
1939 |
Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact |
1940 |
Luftwaffe bombs London |
1940 |
Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers, Williams allows 3 hits & 1 run |
1942 |
Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands between United States Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy |
1942 |
Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
1943 |
Phila A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game |
1944 |
General LeClerc's troops open assault on Paris |
1945 |
Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy & strike out 12 |
1949 |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect |
1950 |
Edith Sampson named 1st African American US delegate to UN |
1950 |
Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews |
1951 |
Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night", Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on |
1954 |
US President Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party, at height of McCarthyism |
1954 |
International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China |
1954 |
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 |
Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
1958 |
Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR) |
1959 |
England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India |
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 |
-127°F (-88°C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record) |
1960 |
60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil |
1961 |
Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms |
1961 |
Former South African nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice |
1962 |
Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
1st 200 metre freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58) |
1963 |
John Pennel is first person 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 with detonation on Mururoa |
1968 |
Northern Ireland's first civil rights march held; many more marches would be held over the following year and Loyalists organized counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned |
1969 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament |
1969 |
Peru nationalizes US oil interests |
1970 |
Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison |
1971 |
India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms |
1972 |
8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1 |
1972 |
Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 v Australia |
1972 |
Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame |
1973 |
Garry Sobers scores 26th & last Test Cricket ton 150 v Eng Lord's |
1973 |
John Adams & his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleve Stadium |
1974 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1975 |
Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing |
1975 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open |
1975 |
Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens |
1975 |
SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0 |
1975 |
Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup |
1976 |
Soyuz 21 returns to Earth |
1978 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1979 |
Cars play concert in NY Central Park |
1979 |
NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new |
1979 |
UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps |
1980 |
Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic |
1980 |
Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch |
1981 |
American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel |
1981 |
Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder |
1982 |
KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record |
1983 |
Cin Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745 |
1984 |
Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver |
1985 |
STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather |
1986 |
Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic |
1987 |
Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes |
1989 |
British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain |
1989 |
Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling |
1989 |
Voyager 2 flies past Neptune |
1990 |
3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia |
1990 |
Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City |
1991 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
1991 |
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party |
1991 |
Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway |
1991 |
Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0 |
1991 |
Ukraine declares independence from USSR |
1992 |
1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field) |
1992 |
Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings |
1992 |
Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die |
1992 |
Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint |
1992 |
Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea. |
1993 |
Mars Observer comes closest to Mars |
1993 |
Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals |
1994 |
Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66) |
1994 |
Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00) |
1994 |
Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare & tourism |
1995 |
Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island |
1995 |
Windows 95 debuts |
1997 |
97th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel |
1997 |
Colleen Wakjer wins Star Bank LPGA Classic |
1997 |
Gordon Spence discovers 2^2976221 - 1 (36th known Mersenne prime) |
1997 |
Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273 |
1997 |
Mark Calcavecchia wins Greater Vancouver Golf Open shooting 265 |
1997 |
Saint Luke's Senior Golf Classic |
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 |
89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were 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. |
2006 |
After signing a one-day contract with the San Francisco 49ers, Jerry Rice officially retires from the NFL |
2009 |
Thailand's GDP grew 2.3% in 2009's second quarter, technically leaving the recession |
2012 |
Monsoon rains and floods kill 26 people in Pakistan |
2012 |
Yangmingtan Bridge collapses in China killing three people |
2012 |
Both Apple and Samsung are found guilty of patent infringement in a South Korean court |
2012 |
A US jury in California finds that Samsung is guilty of patent infringement and awards over US$1 billion in damages to Apple |
2013 |
4 people are killed in a helicopter crash in the Shetland Islands |
2013 |
30 people are killed in a gang battle involving flame throwers in Palmasola prison, Bolivia |
2016 |
Florida Investigates New Zika Cases on Gulf Coast and in Miami |
2016 |
North Korea Seeks UN Meeting on US-South Korea Exercises |
2016 |
Tesla Lays Claim to World's Fastest Production Car |
2016 |
Japan, China, South Korea agree to urge North Korea to stop provocation |
2016 |
North Korea fires submarine-launched ballistic missile towards Japan |
2016 |
Brazil police probe money laundering tied to Olympic ticket ring |
2017 |
Winning ticket sold in Massachusetts for $758.7 million Powerball jackpot |
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