Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 24

August 24: Independence Day in Ukraine (1991)

Getúlio Vargas

• 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae with volcanic ash.

• 410 - The Visigoths under Alaric I sacked Rome.

• 1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: a massacre of Huguenots began. An estimated 70,000 people were killed in France in the following weeks.

• 1821 - The Treaty of Córdoba was signed, ratifiying the Plan de Iguala and concluding Mexico's War of Independence from Spain.

• 1954 - President Getúlio Vargas of Brazil (pictured) shot himself to death in the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro.

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