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                                                                                      Aug 24

79 Believed until 2018 to be the date of the massive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae, killing untold thousands, latest evidence suggests the eruption occurred after 17 October. Pliny the Younger was seventeen and staying with his famous uncle, Pliny the Elder, a naturalist, author and naval commander for the Roman fleet at Misenum in the Bay of Naples. His account written as a letter to the Roman historian Tacitus 25 years later made the eruption of Vesuvius famous long after Pompeii was buried under debris and forgotten.

410 Rome is overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The fall and collapse of the Roman Empire was a long process, but few events shocked people at the time as the sack of Rome, the first such event in almost 1000 years. St. Jerome who was in Bethlehem at the time wrote "the city which had taken the whole world was itself taken." The Visigoth barbarians were responsible, led by their leader Alaric I. The Western Roman Empire was already in a state of disarray, having split from the East fifteen years before. After sacking and looting the capital, Alaric looted and pillaged several other towns and cities before dying only months after taking Rome.

1456 The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed 

1516 Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively defeat the Mamluk Sultanate near Aleppo, ending Egyptian control in the Middle East 

1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris with the murder by defenestration of Admiral Gaspard de Coligny and later spreads to the French provinces

1662 Act of Uniformity requires English government and church officials to accept the Book of Common Prayer 

1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his violin and piano sonata in A, K526

1814 British forces capture Washington, D.C. during the War of 1812 and destroy many landmarks 

1853 First potato chips are prepared by chef George Crum at Moon's Lake House near Saratoga Springs, New York (popular legend says he invents them, though earlier recipes exist) 

1963 24th Venice Film Festival: "Hands Over the City," directed by Francesco Rosi, wins the Golden Lion

1968 France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific

2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing become the most-watched event on TV ever, with nearly 5 billion viewers, 70% of the world's population

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                                                                      Aug 23

1305 Scottish patriot William Wallace is executed for high treason by Edward I of England 

at Smithfield, London 

1542 Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his major work, the "Beit Yosef," a voluminous commentary on the "Arba'ah Turim" code 

1924 Mars makes its closest approach to Earth since the 10th century 

1933 First televised boxing match, a six-round exhibition at Broadcasting House in London between middleweights Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri, airs on BBC TV 

1942 Last cavalry charge in history takes place during World War II at Isbuschenskij, Russia, when the Italian Savoia Cavalleria charges Soviet infantry 

1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffe planes bomb Stalingrad, killing 40,000 people 

1943 Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, ends after 50 days as the Soviet Union defeats Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, and nearly 250,000 combatants are killed 

1946 Premiere of "The Big Sleep," directed by Howard Hawks and starring Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe and Lauren Bacall

1994 Jeff Buckley releases his album "Grace," featuring his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"

2008 Ethiopian distance runner Kenenisa Bekele wraps up the 5,000/10,000m double at the Beijing Olympics when he takes gold in the 5,000m in an Olympic record 12:57.82

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                                                                    Aug 22

565 Saint Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness 

1485 Battle of Bosworth Field: Henry Tudor's forces defeat English King Richard III during the last battle in the Wars of the Roses. Richard is killed, becoming the last English monarch to die in battle. 

1540 Thomas Cromwell became chief advisor to King Henry VIII and led the hunt for a new royal wife. Unfortunately for him he championed the cause of Anne of Cleves.

1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers 

1642 English Civil War begins between Royalists and Parliamentarians 

1775 King of Great Britain and Ireland, George III, proclaims the American colonies to be in open rebellion and orders his officials to suppress them

1849 Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice in the first aerial bombing in history 

1851 The 100 Guineas Cup yacht race is held around the Isle of Wight, the first race of the oldest international sporting competition now known as the America's Cup. In the race, US schooner "America" beats the British cutter "Aurora" by 24 minutes, prompting spectator Queen Victoria to ask who was in second place and the famous reply, "Your majesty, there is no second."

1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field" is signed by 12 nation

1932 BBC begins experimental regular television broadcasts

1987 Madonna's single "Who's That Girl" hits #1

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                                                                                     Aug 21

1703 Edirne Incident: Turkish army ousts Sultan Mustafa II, replacing him with his brother Ahmed III, reducing the power of the Sultan 

1772 King Gustav III of Sweden completes a coup d'état by adopting a new constitution and installing himself as an enlightened despot, ending fifty years of parliamentary rule

1888 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine

1911 The Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre Museum by Italian decorator Vincenzo Peruggia, recovered in 1913 

1942 Walt Disney's animated movie "Bambi," based on the book by Felix Salten, is released 

1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the United States 

1986 Ian Botham takes his world-record 356th Test cricket wicket against New Zealand at The Oval

1991 Conservative coup in the Soviet Union is crushed by popular resistance led by Boris Yeltsin in three days

2001 "How You Remind Me" single released by Nickelback (Billboard Song of the Year 2002)

2015 First British unmanned drone hits a UK citizen outside a conflict: ISIS fighter Reyaad Khan in Raqqa, Syria 

2020 Korean pop group BTS releases the single "Dynamite," the first video to be watched more than 100 million times in 24 hours on YouTube

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                                                                             Aug 20

1597 First Dutch East India Company ships return from the Far East 

1741 Alaska is first sighted by a Russian expedition led by Danish explorer Vitus Bering 

1882 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow

1888 In an epic first-round US men's singles tennis match, Palmer Presbrey takes 80 games to defeat T.S. Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 

1905 Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen forms the first chapter of Tongmenghui, a union of secret societies determined to bring down the Qing dynasty

1940 British PM Winston Churchill says of the Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" 

1951 12th Venice Film Festival: "Rashomon" directed by Akira Kurosawa wins the Golden Lion1920 American Professional Football Association forms with Jim Thorpe as president and later becomes the National Football League (NFL)

1951 12th Venice Film Festival: "Rashomon" directed by Akira Kurosawa wins the Golden Lion

1968 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia at night to suppress the Prague Spring 

1993 Oslo Peace Accords are signed between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization after secret negotiations in Norway, a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. is held the following month

2000 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Valhalla GC: Tiger Woods wins back-to-back PGA titles after a three-hole playoff with Bob May, becoming the first to win three majors in a calendar year since Ben Hogan in 1953

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                                                                                        Aug 19

43 BC Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him consul

1477 When Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, presented his young wife with a diamond ring he began a tradition that has lasted for five and a half centuries.

1661 The world's "most mysterious book," a codex known as the Voynich manuscript and written in an unknown script, is sent by the rector of Charles University in Prague to a Jesuit scholar (now in Yale University's Beinecke Library and still undeciphered) 

1839 Louis Daguerre's daguerreotype photographic process with complete working instructions is published "free to the world" in Paris as a gift from the French government

1900 Start of the first and only Olympic cricket match as Great Britain defeats France by 158 runs in Paris

1942 World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers are killed, wounded, or captured during a raid on Dieppe, France

1950 ABC begins broadcasting Saturday morning kids' shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch)

1970 The Chinese community in South Africa is granted "white" status 

1988 Iran and Iraq begin a ceasefire in their eight-year-old war at 11 pm EDT

1991 Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'état [1] www.onthisday.com/russia/conservative_coup.php

2008 Lady Gaga's debut album, "The Fame," is released by Interscope Records (Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album 2010)

2010 Operation Iraqi Freedom winds down as the last of the United States Brigade Combat Teams cross the border into Kuwait [1] www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna38744453

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Aug 18

1926 First televised weather map is broadcast by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, DC

1590 Governor of Roanoke Island colony John White returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he left there three years earlier

1737 First public admission to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris

1838 United States Exploring Expedition headed by Charles Wilkes departs for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica

1886 French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium in the solar spectrum during an eclipse

1919 Anti-Cigarette League of America forms in Chicago, Illinois

1920 State Representative Harry T. Burn (24) casts the deciding vote in Tennessee's and thus America's ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, allowing women's suffrage after reading a letter from his mother

1940 Battle of Britain: Air battle known as "The Hardest Day" occurs; the Luftwaffe loses approximately 69 aircraft and the RAF 68 in one of the largest ever air battles

1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" reach #1 on the charts, staying for 11 weeks (a record for a single release) 

2008 Belarusian weightlifter Andrei Aramnau breaks three world records in the snatch, clean and jerk, and total on his way to winning the men's 105 kg gold medal at the Beijing Olympics

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                                                                      Aug 17

1876 Richard Wagner's opera "Götterdämmerung" (Twilight of the Gods) premieres in Bayreuth

1903 Joseph Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University and begins the Pulitzer Prizes in the United States

1908 Projection in Paris of the first animated cartoon, "Fantasmagorie," created by Émile Cohl 

       1933 MLB player Lou Gehrig plays his record 1,308th consecutive game

1945 Korea is divided into North and South Korea along the 38th parallel

1945 Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia (formerly the Dutch East Indies) independent from the Netherlands

1947 The Radcliffe Line is revealed, setting the border between Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan

1979 "Monty Python's Life of Brian" directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman, Michael Palin, and John Cleese, and funded by George Harrison's HandMade Films, premieres in US theaters

                                                  

1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship

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Aug 16

1513 Battle of the Spurs at Guinegate (now Enguinegatte): King Henry VIII of England and Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I defeat French forces, capturing the town and routing the French cavalry

1743 Champion of England titleholder Jack Broughton publishes "Rules of the Ring," the earliest boxing code

1858 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan for the first time via transatlantic telegraph cable; he replies, "It is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle"

1896 Gold is first discovered in the Klondike at Bonanza Creek in Yukon, Canada, by George Carmack

1930 First British Empire Games open in Hamilton, Canada

1930 The first color sound cartoon "Fiddlesticks" is released by Ub Iwerks (formerly of Walt Disney Studios)

1945 The last Chinese Emperor and ruler of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo, Puyi, is captured by Soviet troops while preparing to board a plane to escape to Japan

1946 Direct Action Day: Widespread riots erupt in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus over whether Pakistan should be a separate state, killing over 4,000 and leaving 100,000 homeless

1974 American punk rock band "The Ramones" debut in concert at CBGB in New York City

1989 A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects microchips, leading to a halt in all trading on Toronto's stock exchange

2008 Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt sets a new world record of 9.69 seconds to win the 100 m gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics