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.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Vesuvius from Pompeii -
Hurricane Andrew reached South Florida -
Getúlio Vargas -
Goodison Park -
The 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team -
The White House after having been burned -
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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. | refimprove section |
| 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 |
| 1954 – Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas shot himself to death in the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro. | refimprove, lots of {{cn}} tags |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 49 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Forces loyal to Julius Caesar led by Gaius Scribonius Curio were crushingly 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.
- 1482 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: The border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed and its castle were captured by English forces.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Near present-day Aurora, Indiana, a force of American Indians led by Joseph Brant killed or captured all the members of a Pennsylvania militia without suffering a single casualty.
- 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.
- 1814 – War of 1812: British forces invaded Washington, D.C., setting fire to various U.S. government buildings, including what is now the White House.
- 1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba was signed, ratifying the Plan of Iguala and concluding Mexico's War of Independence from Spain.
- 1889 – The predominantly Māori New Zealand Native football team played the last match of their 107-game tour, the longest in rugby union history.
- 1892 – Goodison Park in Liverpool, England, one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds, opened.
- 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 the war.
- 1942 – World War II: Bombers from the United States aircraft carrier Saratoga sank the Japanese carrier Ryūjō near Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands, helping to lead to an Allied victory.
- 1963 – Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. 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.
- 1992 – Hurricane Andrew made landfall in South Florida, the third most intense Category 5 system to hit the United States during the 20th century.
- 2004 – About 90 people died after suicide bombers attacked two airliners flying out of Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport.
- Born/died: Zhang Ye (d. 948) · Harry Hooper (b. 1887) · Valentine Baker (b. 1888) · Jean-Michel Jarre (b. 1948) · Louis Prima (d. 1978) · Rupert Grint (b. 1988) · Satoshi Kon (d. 2010)
Notes
August 24: Independence Day in Ukraine (1991)
- 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 what is now Chile, with the aim of establishing a new colony in the ruins of the abandoned Spanish settlement of Valdivia.
- 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.
- 1914 – World War I: The Battle of Cer ended as the first Allied victory in the war.
- 2006 – The International Astronomical Union redefined the term "planet", reclassifying Pluto (pictured) as a dwarf planet since it has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
Magnus Barefoot (d. 1103) · William Wilberforce (b. 1759) · Anže Kopitar (b. 1987)