The August 24th is the 236e Jour of the Année (237e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

1st century

• 79 : The eruption of the Vesuvius buries under the volcanic ash the towns of Pompéi and Herculanum in Italy of the south.

5th century

• 410 : The king of the Visigoths Alaric Ier seizes Rome.

11th century

• 1066 : Dedication by Libert, bishop of Cambric, and Théoduin of Bavaria, bishop of Liege, the church of Notre-Dame de Huy, rebuilt, after its destruction in 1053 by the count de Flandre Baudouin V '' the Piles '' (v. 1012 - 1067).

13th century

• 1215 : The Pape Innocent III declares invalid the Magna Carta (or Large Charter) granted by the king d' Angleterre Jean without Ground to the English barons.

• 1217 : Overcome and taken by the English at the time of the Battle of Sandwich (still called Bataille of South-Foreland ), close to Dover, during which the English fleet beat the French fleet, Eustace the monk, one of the most famous pirates of the 13th century, had the distinct head.

14th century

• 1315 : Louis X is crowned King de France with Rheims.

• 1346 : The English troops, which plunder and burn the villages of the Ponthieu on their passage, put at bag Ponthoile the day of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, hardly two days before the Bataille of Crécy, burning the Church, dating from the 12th century.

• 1391 : The Jews of Palma de Majorque are massacred.

16th century

• 1542 : The Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns in Spain.

• 1572 : Massacre of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

17th century

• 1690 : In India, the English Job Charnock (? - 1693), an agent of the East India Company , person in charge of the English factory of Cassim Bazar installs a new factory with Sutanati. This date is generally regarded as the date of foundation of modern the Calcutta.

18th century

• August 24th 1704: The Battle of Málaga (or Vélez-Málaga )
• 1788: In France, reference of the minister Loménie de Brienne.

• 1789 : Article 11 of the Declaration of the Human rights and the Citizen affirms freedom of the press in France.

19th century

• 1821 : Treaty of Córdoba giving independence to Mexico

• 1842 : Foundation of current Chicoutimi by Peter McLeod.

20th century

• 1931 : The France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty of neutrality

• 1944 : The troops allied and French begin the attack on Paris.

• 1949 : The treaty creating NATO between into force.

• 1952 : The British troops evacuate the Suez Canal.

• 1968 : The first bends H French explodes in the Pacific Ocean, in the atoll Polynésien of Fangataufa, making France the 5th nuclear power.

• 1990 :

• release of the Hostage Brian Keenan, held since four years with the Lebanon.
• the draftsman Thomas Goletz creates his character Diddl.

• 1991 : Independence of the Ukraine. The same day, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev resigns of his post of head of the Communist party of the Soviet Union

• 1992 : Valery Fabrikant assassinates 4 colleagues of the Université Concordia with Montreal with the Quebec.

• 1995 : Microsoft lance Windows 95.

21e century

• 2004 : disappearance of the French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot and of their Syrian driver Mohammed Al-Joundi in the zone of occupation states-unienne of the Iraq.

• 2006 : Pluton is not any more one planet of the Solar system, but member of a new class of celestial object, a dwarf Planet

Births

• 1113 : Geoffroy V of Anjou, Count d' Anjou and of Maine, Count de Mortain and Duke of Normandy. († September 7th 1151)

• 1698: Erik Pontoppidan, Theology N and zoologist Danish. († December 20th 1764)
• 1807: Jules Verreaux, Botanist and Ornithologist French. († September 7th 1873)
• 1844: Emile Oustalet, zoologist French. († October 23rd 1905)
• 1862: Lajos Méhelÿ, zoologist Hungarian. († between 1946 and 1952)
• 1872: Aubrey Beardsley, British Illustrator . († March 16th 1898)
• 1899: Jorge Shine Borgès, writer and Argentinian Poète . († June 14th 1986)
• 1915: Wynonie Harris, Singer of Blues and Rhythm and American blues . († June 14th 1969)
• 1916: Léo Shoed, Poet, Anarchistic and Musician free Monegasque, Song writer and performer of songs. († July 14th 1993)
• 1922: Rene Lévesque, Journalist, Radio presenter and of television, Appointed, minister and political leader Québécois. († November 1st 1987)
• 1923: Jean-Marc Thibault, Actor, Realizer and Scenario writer French.
• 1924 : Ahmadou Ahidjo, first president of the Cameroun. († November 30th 1989)
• 1929: Yasser Arafat, Activist then Palestinian Politician . († November 11th 2004)
• 1944: Gregory B. Jarvis, American Astronaut . († January 28th 1986)
• 1945: Lillian Dyck (born in North Battleford, in Saskatchewan) is a Canadian sénatrice for the province of Saskatchewan.
• 1946 : Richard NR. Richards, American Astronaut .
• 1947 : Paulo Coelho, Novelist and a interprets Brésil IEN.
• 1948 :
• Jean Michel Guard hair, Type-setter French of Electronic music.
• Alexander McCall Smith, writer and Lawyer of the Zimbabwe of Scottish origin .
• 1949 : Anna Fisher, American Astronaut .
• 1950 : Marc Aaronson, American Astronomer .
• 1951 : Orson Scott Card, American writer of Science fiction .
• 1960
• Steven W. Lindsey, American Astronaut .
• Franz Viehböck, Engineer and first Austrian Spationaut .
• 1962 : Mary Weber, American Astronaut .
• 1963 : Hideo Kojima, creator of Video games Japan board.
• 1964 : Salizhan Sharipov, Uzbek first Spationaut .
• 1972 : Dave Vault, actor states-unien
• 1979: Michael Redd, player of American Basketball .
• 1980 : Kim Kallstrom, player of Football Swedish.
• 1981 : Chad Michael Murray American Actor .
• 1982 : Cathialine Andria French Singer and Song writer and performer .
• 1988 : Rupert Grint, British Actor .

Death

• 1103 : Magnus III, king de Norvège. (° 1073)

• 1217 : Eustace the monk alias the Black Monk , famous Pirate S of the beginning of the 13th century. (° ^Ca 1170)
• 1372: Casimir III of Poméranie, duke of Szczecin.
• 1540 : Parmigianino, painter Italy N of the Rebirth. (° January 11th 1503)
• 1572: Gaspard de Coligny, admiral of Henri II then chief of the Huguenot S (° February 16th 1519)
• 1648: Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, writer, statesman and Spanish diplomat of the Century of gold. (° May 6th 1584).
• 1803 : James Napper Tandy, Politician and popular hero of the Ireland. (° ^Ca 1740)
• 1832: Sadi Carnot, Physicist and Engineer French. (° June 1st 1796)
• 1856: William Buckland, geologist and British paleontologist . (° March 12th 1784)
• 1861: Pierre Berthier, mineralogist and geologist French. (° July 3rd 1782)
• 1883: Henri d' Artois, known under the names of duke of Bordeaux , then of “ count de Chambord ” and of “ Henri V ”. (° September 29th 1820)
• 1966: Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, general Polish (° June 1st 1895)
• 2007: Andree P. Boucher, mairess of the town of Quebec (° January 31st 1937)

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Barthelemy: translation in 580 of its relics in Lipari (Western date).

See too

• August 24th in sport
• August 24th in the railroads

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