August 24

Wednesday 24, 2005:

2005 - Peruvian airliner TANS's Flight 204 crashes in Pucallpa, killing at least 60 people.

Tuesday 24, 2004:

Two airliners in Russia, carrying a total of 89 passengers, crash within minutes of each other after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow, leaving no survivors. Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from the breakaway republic of Chechnya to be the cause of the crashes.

Sunday 24, 2003:

US Spacecraft Voyager 2 is 71 astronomical units distant from Earth and escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.3 AU per year (ca. 15 km/s). It will be approximately 40,000 years before Voyager 2 approaches another planetary system.

Friday 24, 2001:

Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from New York) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.

Monday 24, 1998:

The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 PanAm bombing.

Thursday 24, 1995:

Windows 95 is released.

Wednesday 24, 1994:

Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.

Monday 24, 1992:

Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida

Saturday 24, 1991:

Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.

Friday 24, 1990:

Sinéad O'Connor refuses to perform at the Garden State Arts Plaza in Holmdel, New Jersey if "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played before her show, as is customary.

Thursday 24, 1989:

Voyager 2 passes Neptune.

Monday 24, 1981:

Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.

Friday 24, 1979:

In Central Park, New York a concert is given by cars.

Saturday 24, 1968:

France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.

Saturday 24, 1963:

The 200-metre freestyle is swum in less than 2 minutes for the first time by Don Schollander (1:58).

Wednesday 24, 1960:

A temperature of −88°C (−127°F) is measured in Vostok, Antarctica — a world-record low.

Tuesday 24, 1954:

Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commit suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.

Thursday 24, 1950:

Edith Sampson becomess the first black U.S. delegate to the UN.

Wednesday 24, 1949:

The treaty creating NATO goes into effect.

Thursday 24, 1944:

World War II: French and Allied troops start the attack on Paris.

Monday 24, 1942:

World War II: The Battle of the East Solomon Islands. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho is sunk.

Monday 24, 1936:

The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.

Wednesday 24, 1932:

Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).

Monday 24, 1931:

Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.

Saturday 24, 1929:

Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty.

Monday 24, 1914:

World War I: German troops capture Namur.

Saturday 24, 1912:

Alaska becomes a United States territory.

Tuesday 24, 1909:

Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.

Monday 24, 1891:

Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

Tuesday 24, 1858:

In Richmond, Virginia, 90 blacks are arrested for learning.

Monday 24, 1857:

The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.

Wednesday 24, 1853:

Potato chips are first prepared.

Tuesday 24, 1847:

Charlotte Brontë finishes Jane Eyre.

Wednesday 24, 1831:

Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.

Friday 24, 1821:

The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.

Wednesday 24, 1814:

British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.

Thursday 24, 1690:

Calcutta, India is founded.

Monday 24, 1682:

William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.

Thursday 24, 1662:

Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.

Sunday 24, 1608:

The first official British representative to India lands in Surat.

Thursday 24, 1572:

Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: On the orders of king Charles IX of France, a massacre of Huguenots (French Protestants) begins.

Thursday 24, 1511:

Alfonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers the Sultanate of Malacca.

Sunday 24, 1456:

The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed.

Wednesday 24, 1391:

Jews massacred in Palma de Mallorca.

Sunday 24, 1349:

Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz because they are blamed for the bubonic plague.

Monday 24, 1215:

Pope Innocent III declares the Magna Carta invalid.

Tuesday 24, 410:

The Visigoths under Alaric sack Rome for three days.

Thursday 24, 79:

Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.

Tuesday 24, -49:

Julius Caesar's general Gaius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia. Curio is slain in battle.

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