August 24 Events in History

2010	The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research
2008	2008 Summer Olympics come to a close in Beijing, China
2006	Pluto is demoted to a 'dwarf planet'
1997	97th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
1997	Colleen Wakjer wins Star Bank LPGA Classic
1997	Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273
1997	Mark Calcavecchia wins Greater Vancouver Golf Open shooting 265
1997	Saint Luke's Senior Golf Classic
1995	Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
1995	Windows 95 debuts
1994	Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
1994	Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
1994	Israel and PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare and tourism
1993	Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
1993	Padres scores 14 in 1st vs. Cardinals
1992	1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1992	Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
1992	Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
1992	Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint
1991	Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1991	Gorbachev resigns as head of U.S.S.R. Communist Party
1991	Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
1991	Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
1991	Ukraine declares independence from U.S.S.R.
1990	3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
1990	Iraqi troops surround U.S. and other embassies in Kuwait City
1989	British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
1989	Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
1989	Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1987	Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1986	Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1985	STS-51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
1984	Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
1983	Cincinnati Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745
1982	KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for c atcher's record
1981	American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English hannel
1981	Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder
1980	Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1980	Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
1979	Cars play concert in New York Central Park
1979	NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
1979	U.N.'s Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
1978	U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1976	Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1975	Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, hen thrown out stealing
1975	Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975	Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
1975	San Francisco Giant Ed Halick no-hits New York Giants, 6-0
1975	Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
1974	Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1973	John Adams and his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium
1972	8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 2-1
1972	Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 vs. Australia
1972	Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
1971	India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
1970	Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
1969	Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament
1969	Peru nationalizes U.S. oil interests
1968	France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
1966	U.S.S.R. launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1964	2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 6-4
1963	1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
1963	John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
1962	Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds
1962	U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961	Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms
1961	Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)
1960	-127 degrees F (-88 degrees C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1960	60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
1959	England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
1959	Hiram Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while  Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Japanese-American Rep (Both from Hawaii)
1958	Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1958	Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR)
1957	British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1956	1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington D.C.
1954	Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
1954	International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes  Red China
1954	William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London
1951	Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night," Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards for fans to vote on
1950	Edith Sampson named 1st black U.S. delegate to U.N.
1950	Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews
1949	NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect
1945	Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy and strike out 12
1944	General LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
1943	Philadelphia A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game
1942	Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
1942	Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1940	Luftwaffe bombs London
1940	Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers, Williams allows 3 hits and 1 run
1939	Germany and U.S.S.R. sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1938	England beat Australia by an innings and 579 runs at The Oval
1938	Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game
1937	Republican offensive near Belchite Spain
1936	Australian Antarctic Territory created
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists
1932	1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1931	France and U.S.S.R. sign neutrality/no attack treaty
1929	43rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62)
1929	Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
1929	Turkey and Persia signs friendship treaty
1925	39th U.S. Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62)
1923	Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
1922	1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)
1921	Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey and Greece
1921	British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die
1919	Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning
1918	Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1918	Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
1914	Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops
1914	German troops occupy Namur Belgium
1914	Jerome Kern and Michael E Rourles musical premieres in New York City
1912	New York City ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe and victorious U.S. olympians
1912	Territory of Alaska organizes
1912	U.S. passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition government
1911	Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1909	Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1908	Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1908	New York Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at MSG
1906	Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
1905	Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
1904	24th U.S. Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (108 64 97)
1904	Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1893	Tornado destroys coast of Savannah and Charleston, about 1000 die
1891	Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1876	Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
1869	Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
1858	Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1854	National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
1853	1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum ( Saratoga Springs New York)
1847	Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
1833	HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1831	John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
1828	Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
1826	Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens
1814	British forces captured Washington, D.C., and burned down many landmarks
1787	Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
1751	Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
1704	Sea battle at Malaga
1690	Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
1682	Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1662	Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
1658	Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish
1654	Louis II Conde disbands ends of Atrecht
1608	1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1572	King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
1561	Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon
1542	Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain
1516	Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria
1511	Portugese troops under Afonso the Albuquerque occupy Malakka
1391	Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
1349	6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
1349	Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1217	Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1215	Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
410	Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
79	Mount Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die