Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 24
This is a list of selected August 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Hurricane Andrew reached South Florida -
Getúlio Vargas -
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The White House after having been burned -
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Aftermath of the 1929 Hebron massacre -
Pluto -
1888–89 New Zealand Native football team -
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| AD 79 – According to estimates based on the Codex Laurentianus Mediceus, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Italian towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae in rock and ash. | single source sections |
| 1482 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: The border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed and its castle were captured by English forces. | different dates found in different sources |
| 1516 – The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeated the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq. | multiple issues |
| 1690 – East India Company official Job Charnock established his headquarters in a location he called Calcutta. | refimprove section |
| 1812 – Peninsular War: Seeing that his army was in danger of being cut off, French commander Jean-de-Dieu Soult retreated from Cádiz, Spain, ending a 30-month siege. | Unsourced section |
| 1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba was signed, ratifying the Plan of Iguala and concluding the Mexican War of Independence with Spain. | Date not cited |
| 1892 – Goodison Park in Liverpool, England, one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds, opened. | unreliable sources |
| 1929 – Palestine riots: Arabs began attacking Jews in Hebron, killing more than sixty people in two days. | Refimprove section |
| 2004 – Eighty-nine people died after suicide bombers attacked two airliners flying out of Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport. | Too much uncited |
| 2006 – The International Astronomical Union redefined the term planet, thus reclassifying Pluto (pictured) as a dwarf planet due to not having "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit. | Citation issues |
| 2012 – American cyclist Lance Armstrong was banned from all competitions and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for using illicit performance-enhancing drugs. | refimprove section |
| Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor|d|1313| | Lots of cn tags |
| Satoshi Kon |d|2010 | Orange banner for section with no citations |
| Hideo Kojima |b|1963| | Lots of cn tags |
Eligible
- 49 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Forces loyal to Julius Caesar led by Gaius Scribonius Curio were defeated by Pompeian Republicans under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba I of Numidia.
- 410 – Rome was sacked for the first time in approximately 800 years by the Visigoths under Alaric I.
- 1456 – The oldest known version of the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book produced on a printing press, was completed.
- 1643 – A Dutch expedition arrived at the mouth of the Valdivia River, in present-day Chile, to establish a new colony in the ruins of the abandoned Spanish settlement of Valdivia.
- 1662 – The 1662 Book of Common Prayer was legally enforced as the liturgy of the Church of England, precipitating the Great Ejection of Dissenter ministers from their benefices.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Near present-day Aurora, Indiana, American Indians led by Joseph Brant killed or captured all members of a Pennsylvania militia.
- 1857 – The New York City branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. collapsed following widespread embezzlement, leading to a severe recession that caused about 5,000 businesses to fail.
- 1921 – The Royal Navy's R.38, the world's largest airship at the time, was destroyed by a structural failure over Hull, killing 44 of the 49 crew aboard.
- 1941 – Adolf Hitler ordered the suspension of the T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings continued in secret for the remainder of World War II.
- 1942 – World War II: At the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, bombers from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō near Santa Isabel Island, contributing to an Allied victory.
- 1963 – Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (pictured) to encourage South Vietnamese Army officers to oust Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not willingly remove Ngo Dinh Nhu from his unofficial position of power.
- 1966 – Cultural Revolution: Red Guards vandalised the Jokhang, the holiest Buddhist temple in Tibet.
- 1992 – Hurricane Andrew, the third-most intense Category 5 cyclone to impact the United States in the 20th century, made landfall in southern Florida.
- 2006 – The International Astronomical Union passed a resolution redefining the term planet and classifying Pluto as a dwarf planet.
- Born/died: | Zhang Ye |d|948| Magnus Barefoot |d|1103| Lavinia Fontana|baptised|1552| Agnes Marshall |b|1852| Zonia Baber |b|1862| Harry Hooper |b|1887| Valentine Baker |b|1888| Jean-Michel Jarre |b|1948| Anna Lee Fisher |b|1949| Louis Prima |d|1978| Anže Kopitar |b|1987 |Rupert Grint |b|1988|
Notes
August 24: Feast day of Saint Bartholomew (Western Christianity); Independence Day in Ukraine (1991)
Burning of Washington
- 1704 – War of the Spanish Succession: An Anglo-Dutch fleet engaged a French naval force at the Battle of Málaga in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 1814 – War of 1812: British forces invaded Washington, D.C., setting fire to various U.S. government buildings, including the White House (pictured).
- 1889 – The New Zealand Native football team, predominantly comprising Māori players, concluded their 107-game tour, the longest in rugby union history.
- 1914 – The Battle of Cer ended with the first Allied victory of World War I.
- 1954 – In the midst of a political crisis, Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas fatally shot himself in the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro.
- William Wilberforce (b. 1759)
- Antonio Stoppani (b. 1824)
- Odette Abadi (b. 1914)
- Cora Slocomb di Brazza (d. 1944)