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The
24t o August
is the 236t day o the year (237t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 129 days bidin.
Events
- 79
- The
volcanae
Munt Vesuvius
erupts in the present-day Sooth o
Italy
, destroyin the ceeties o
Pompeii
an
Herculaneum
(mair recent research suggests it may hae happened twa month later).
- 1349
- 6,000
Jews
are kilt in
Mainz
efter bein blamed for the Bubonic Plague.
- 1456
- The
Gutenberg
Bible
is completit.
- 1482
- The toun an castle in
Berwick upon Tweed
is captured bi Inglis troops.
- 1572
- Saunt Bartholomew's Day massacre in
Fraunce
: Thousands o
Huguenots
are kilt.
- 1814
- Breetish troops enter
Washington, D.C.
an burn mony biggins, incluidin the
White Hoose
.
- 1815
- The modren constitution o the
Netherlands
is signed.
- 1848
- The ship "Ocean Monarch" bursts intae flames aff Llandudno in North
Wales
: 208 fowk are saved, 178 are kilt.
- 1912
-
Alaska
becomes a
Unitit States
territory.
- 1929
- 67 fowk are kilt in a massacre in
Hebron
, leadin tae
Jews
bein expelled frae the ceety.
- 1932
-
Amelia Earhart
flies across the Contiguous
Unitit States
.
- 1954
-
Preses
o
Brazil
Getulio Vargas
resigns an commits suicide.
- 1963
- The German fitbaa
Bundesliga
is foondit.
- 1968
-
Fraunce
detonates its first hydrogen bomb on the Sooth
Paceefic
Isles o Moruroa an Fangataufa.
- 1989
-
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
becomes
Prime meenister
o
Poland
.
- 1991
-
Ukraine
gains unthirldom frae the
Soviet Union
.
- 1992
-
Hurricane
Andrew hits Sooth
Florida
an the
Bahamas
.
- 2004
- 89 fowk are kilt in splosions at
Moscow
's
Domodedovo Internaitional Airport
.
- 2006
-
Pluto
is re-clessifee'd as a dwarf planet, rather than as a
planet
.
- 2008
- End o the
2008 Simmer Olympics
in
Beijing
.
- 2011
-
Steve Jobs
resigns as CEO o
Apple Inc.
.
- 2012
-
Lance Armstrong
is strippit o his seiven
Tour de France
teetles.
- 2012
-
Anders Behring Breivik
is convictit for committin the
2011 Norawa attacks
.
- 2016
- A
yirdquauk
in Central
Italy
kills 276 fowk.
- 2016
- The discovery o "Proxima Centauri b", a
planet
orbitin aroond the starn
Proxima Centauri
, is annooncit.
- 2018
-
Scott Morrison
becomes the 30t
Prime Meenister o Australie
, replacin
Malcolm Turnbull
.
Births
- 1198
- King
Alexander II o Scotland
(d.
1249
)
- 1564
-
Patrick Forbes
, Scots kirkman (d.
1635
)
- 1759
-
William Wilberforce
, Inglis politeecian (d.
1833
)
- 1772
- King
William I o the Netherlands
(d.
1843
)
- 1808
-
William Lindsay Alexander
, Scots kirk leader (d.
1884
)
- 1865
- King
Ferdinand I o Romanie
(d.
1927
)
- 1890
-
Duke Kahanamoku
, Hawaiian surfer an soummer (d.
1968
)
- 1899
-
Jorge Luis Borges
, Argentine screiver (d.
1986
)
- 1919
-
Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy
,
Preses
o
Ecuador
(d.
2004
)
- 1929
-
Yasser Arafat
, Palestinian leader (d.
2004
)
- 1929
-
Alix, Princess o Ligne
(d.
2019
)
- 1947
-
Paulo Coelho
, Brazilian screiver
- 1948
-
Alexander McCall Smith
, Scots screiver
- 1948
-
Jean-Michel Jarre
, French componer
- 1948
-
Sauli Niinisto
, 12t
Preses
o
Finland
- 1953
-
Sam Torrance
, Scots gowfer
- 1955
-
Mike Huckabee
, American politeecian
- 1957
-
Stephen Fry
, Inglis actor, comedian, presenter an screiver
- 1961
-
Tommy Wilson
, Scots fitbawer
- 1962
-
Ali Smith
, Scots author, playwricht an jurnalist
- 1963
-
Hideo Kojima
, Japanese video gemme designer, screenwriter, director an producer
- 1964
-
Dana Gould
, American comedian, actor an screiver
- 1965
-
Marlee Matlin
, American actress
- 1971
-
Aileen McLeod
, Scots politeecian
- 1977
-
Robert Enke
, German fitbawer (d.
2009
)
- 1978
-
Barry Nicholson
, Scots fitbawer
- 1986
-
Stewart McDonald
, Scots politeecian
- 1988
-
Rupert Grint
, Inglis actor
- 1989
-
Richie Gray
, Scots rugby union player
- 1991
-
John Fleck
, Scots fitbawer
- 1995
-
Cammy Smith
, Scots fitbawer
Daiths
- 79
-
Pliny the Elder
, Roman screiver an philosopher (b.
23
)
- 1313
-
Henry VII, Haly Roman Emperor
(b.
1278
)
- 1832
-
Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot
, French militar ingineer an pheesicist (b.
1796
)
- 1935
-
Tom Maley
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1864
)
- 1943
-
Simone Weil
, French philosopher (b.
1909
)
- 1954
-
Getulio Vargas
,
Preses
o
Brazil
(b.
1882
)
- 1989
-
Jimmy Littlejohn
, Scots fitbawer an manager (b.
1910
)
- 1995
-
Alfred Eisenstaedt
, German-born photographer (b.
1898
)
- 2000
-
Bob McPhail
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1905
)
- 2013
-
Julie Harris
, American actress (b.
1925
)
- 2013
-
Gerry Baker
, American-Scots fitbawer (b.
1938
)
- 2014
-
Richard Attenborough
, Inglis actor an film director (b.
1923
)
- 2016
-
Walter Scheel
,
Preses o the Federal Republic o Germany
(b.
1919
)
- 2016
-
Roger Y. Tsien
, Cheenese-American biologist (b.
1952
)
Halidays
- Independence Day (
Ukraine
)
- Saunt Bartholomew's Day
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