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August 24 Historical Events

The following events took place on August 24. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 66 events. Showing 31 - 60.

  • 1898
    Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
  • 1909
    Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
  • 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.
  • 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 and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.
  • 1931
    France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty.
  • 1931
    Resignation of the United Kingdom’s Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
  • 1932
    Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).
  • 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.
  • 1936
    The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
  • 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.
  • 1941
    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.
  • 1942
    World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged.
  • 1944
    World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
  • 1949
    The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
  • 1950
    Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
  • 1954
    The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
  • 1954
    Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1981
    Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
  • 1989
    Colombian drug barons declare “total war” on the Colombian government.
  • 1989
    Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
  • 1989
    Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist Prime Minister in Central and Eastern Europe.
  • 1991
    Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
  • 1991
    Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
  • 1992
    Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.
  • 1994
    Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.
  • 1995
    Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.

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