History Events on August 24

Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.

#Colombia

Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.

#Sovereign_Council_of_Asturias_and_León

World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.

#Liberation_of_Paris

The modern Constitution of the Netherlands is signed.

#Constitution_of_the_Netherlands

The Act of Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.

#Act_of_Uniformity_1662

The Visigoths under king Alaric I begin to pillage Rome.

#Visigoths

The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.

#Australian_Antarctic_Territory

The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.

#NATO

World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.

#Battle_of_Cer

Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.

#Ukraine

Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane, causing up to $25 billion (1992 USD) in damages.

#Hurricane_Andrew

Job Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta, an event formerly considered the founding of the city (in 2003 the Calcutta High Court ruled that the city's foundation date is unknown).

#Job_Charnock

Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.

#Manuel_de_Arriaga

William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.

#William_Penn

Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.

#Thomas_Edison

Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxony.

#William_the_Silent

American Revolutionary War: A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.

#American_Revolutionary_War

The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.

#Treaty_of_Córdoba

Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.

#Panama_Canal

World War I: German troops capture Namur.

#World_War_I

Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.

#Mikhail_Nikolayevich_Muravyov

In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.

#San_Fernando,_Tamaulipas

Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá L?i 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 ?ình Di?m if he did not remove his brother Ngô ?ình Nhu.

#Buddhist_crisis

Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.

#Mainz

Pope Innocent III issues a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid.

#Pope_Innocent_III

A Dutch fleet establishes a new colony in the ruins of Valdivia in southern Chile.

#Dutch_expedition_to_Valdivia

Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.

#Cincinnati_Reds

Henan Airlines Flight 8387 crashes at Yichun Lindu Airport in Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, killing 44 out of the 96 people on board.

#Henan_Airlines_Flight_8387

World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ry?j? is sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USS Enterprise is heavily damaged.

#World_War_II

The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake-Potomac hurricane.

#Crescent_(train)

Gratian, son of Roman Emperor Valentinian I, is named co-Augustus at the age of eight by his father.

#Gratian

Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.

#Vietnam_War

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.

#Adolf_Hitler

The Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.

#Wolseley_expedition

The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.

#Ottoman_Empire

Getúlio Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho.

#Getúlio_Vargas

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

#Mikhail_Gorbachev

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.

#Abbie_Hoffman

Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.

#Israel

The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history.

#Panic_of_1857

An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as Rome and Florence.

#August_2016_Central_Italy_earthquake

The first official English representative to India lands in Surat.

#Surat

France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.

#Soviet_Union

The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the latest known inscription in Egyptian hieroglyphs, is written.

#Graffito_of_Esmet-Akhom

Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe.

#Tadeusz_Mazowiecki

Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).

#Amelia_Earhart

Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.

#Peninsular_War

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.

#International_Astronomical_Union

British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.

#Burning_of_Washington

The Vandals, led by king Gaiseric, begin to plunder Rome. Pope Leo I requests Gaiseric not destroy the ancient city or murder its citizens. He agrees and the gates of Rome are opened. However, the Vandals loot a great amount of treasure.

#Vandals

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; the remaining Jews are forced to flee the city.

#1929_Hebron_massacre

Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.

#Spanish_Civil_War

90 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers from Chechnya.

First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.

Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.

Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.

The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.

Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.

Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.

Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal.

The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.

The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.

King John of England, signer of the first Magna Carta, marries Isabella of Angoulême in Angoulême Cathedral.

Sack of Thessalonica by the Normans.