Today is Saturday, August twenty fourth, the 237th day of the yr 2024. There are 129 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On August 24, 1932, Amelia Earhart launched into a 19-hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, becoming the primary woman to fly solo and nonstop from coast to coast.
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In 1814, through the War of 1812, British troops invaded Washington, DC and set fire to the Capitol and White House, which were still under construction, in addition to other public buildings.
In 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty got here into force.
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act, which banned the Communist Party within the United States.
In 1981 Mark David Chapman was sentenced to twenty years to life imprisonment in New York for the murder of John Lennon.
In 1989, Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett banned Giamatti (juh-MAH'-tee). Peter Rose was disqualified from the sport because he had bet on his own team, the Cincinnati Reds.
In response to an attempted coup by radical communist leaders searching for to regain control of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian parliamentarians voted in 1991 to adopt a declaration of independence for the state of Ukraine.
1992 Hurricane Andrew hit in Florida; the storm claimed 65 lives and caused over $26 billion in damage in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas.
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union stated: Pluto was not a full-fledged planet and was subsequently downgraded to the status of a “dwarf planet”.
In 2012, a Norwegian court found Anders Behring Breivik guilty of terrorism and premeditated murder. Double attacks on July 22, 2011, through which 77 people were killed; he received a 21-year prison sentence, which could be prolonged if he is taken into account a danger to society.
In 2018, the family of the Arizona Senator was … John McCain announced that he had stopped medical treatment for an aggressive type of brain cancer; McCain died the next day.
In 2019, police in Aurora, Colorado, responded to a report of a suspicious person and used a chokehold to subdue Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old black man. He suffered Cardiac arrest on the option to hospital He was later declared brain dead and life support was discontinued.
In 2020, Republicans officially nominated President Donald Trump for a second term on the opening day of a scaled-down convention. During a visit to the convention city of Charlotte, North Carolina, Trump told delegates: “ The only way they can take this election away from us is if it is rigged. ”
Today's birthdays:
- Composer and musician Mason Williams is 86.
- R&B singer Marshall Thompson (The Chi-Lites) is 82.
- WWE co-founder Vince McMahon is 79.
- The writer Paulo Coelho is 77.
- Actress Anne Archer is 77.
- The writer Alexander McCall Smith is 76.
- The composer Jean-Michel Jarre is 76.
- The writer Orson Scott Card is 73.
- The poet Linton Kwesi Johnson is 72.
- Actor Kevin Dunn is 69.
- Former Arkansas governor and political commentator Mike Huckabee is 69.
- Actor and writer Stephen Fry is 67.
- Actor Steve Guttenberg is 66.
- Cal Ripken Jr., a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is 64.
- Actor Jared Harris is 63.
- Talk show host Craig Kilborn is 62.
- Actress Marlee Matlin is 59.
- Reggie Miller, member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, is 59.
- Film director Ava DuVernay is 52.
- Actor and comedian Dave Chappelle is 51.
- Actor James D'Arcy is 50.
- Actor Carmine Giovinazzo (jee-oh-vihn-AH'-zoh) is 51.
- Actor Alex O'Loughlin is 48.
- Author John Green is 47.
- Actor Chad Michael Murray is 43.
- Actor Rupert Grint is 36.
- Basketball player Kelsey Plum is 30.
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