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24 AUGUST
79 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
410 Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire
1516 Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate
1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces
1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer
1814 British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812)
1968 France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific
Famous Birthday's
William Wilberforce
(1759 - 1833)
Carlo Gambino
(1902 - 1976)
Yasser Arafat
(1933 - 2004)
Cal Ripken Jr
57 Years Old
Marlee Matlin
52 Years Old
Rupert Grint
29 Years Old
Famous Deaths
Getulio Vargas
(1883 - 1954)
Henry J. Kaiser
(1882 - 1967)
Famous Weddings
1561 Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon
1899 Businessman James Cash Penney (24) weds Bertha Alva Hess
1970 Actor Peter Sellers (44) weds model Miranda Quarry
1987 Actor Patrick Dempsey (21) weds manager Rocky Parker (47)
1996 Actress-model Vendela (30) weds Norwegian politician Olaf Thommessen (30) in Stockholm, Sweden
Famous Divorces
1976 Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor (59) divorces her sixth husband, toy inventor Jack Ryan (49) after 1 year of marriage
2009 American actor Eddie Cibrian (36) divorces TV personality Brandi Glanville (35) due to irreconcilable differences
25 AUGUST
1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans founded
1768 Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England, on his first voyage on board the Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean
1894 Japanese scientist Shibasaburo Kitasato discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet
1944 Paris liberated from Nazi occupation (Freedom Tuesday)
1990 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq
Famous Birthday's
Ivan the Terrible
(1530 - 1584)
George Wallace
(1919 - 1998)
Sean Connery
87 Years Old
Tim Burton
59 Years Old
Famous Deaths
Margaret of Anjou
(1430 - 1482)
James Watt
(1736 - 1819)
William Herschel
(1738 - 1822)
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844 - 1900)
Paul Muni
(1895 - 1967)
Neil Armstrong
(1930 - 2012)
Famous Weddings
1749 British admiral Samuel Hood (24) weds Susannah Linzee in Portsmouth, England
1870 German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland
1885 "Little House On The Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder (18) weds Almonzo James Wilder (28)
1925 Suffragette Kate Sheppard (78) weds printer and author William Sidney Lovell-Smith (72) in Christchurch, New Zealand
1928 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (61) weds dancer and writer Olga Ivanovna
26 AUGUST
1346 Battle of Crécy, south of Calais in northern France; Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army, cannons used for first time in battle
1924 The Catastrophe of Smyrna: known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe to Greeks. The Ottoman army expels Greeks and other non-Turks from Asia Minor. (August 13 OS)
1945 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WWII
1959 British Motor Corporation introduced the Morris Mini-Minor, designed by Alec Issigonis it was only 10 ft long but seated 4 passengers
1971 Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history
1996 US President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in welfare policy
Famous Birthday's
Robert Walpole
(1676 - 1745)
Mary Ann Nichols
(1845 - 1888)
Mother Teresa
(1910 - 1997)
Famous Deaths
William James
(1842 - 1910)
Andrew Mellon
(1855 - 1937)
Charles Lindbergh
(1902 - 1974)
Famous Weddings
1926 Poet Arna Bontemps (24) weds fellow Seventh-Day Adventist Alberta Johnson
1946 "Gone with the Wind" actress Olivia de Havilland weds screenwriter and novelist Marcus Goodrich
1965 Mobster and nbi informant Henry Hill (22) weds Karen Friedman in North Carolina
2006 "Days of our Lives" actor Billy Warlock (45) weds actress Julie Pinson in Las Vegas, Nevada
2006 2004 X-Factor winner Steve Brookstein (37) weds jazz musician Eileen Hunter at King's College Chapel in Aberdeen, Scotland
Famous Divorces
1927 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (60) divorces artist Maude Noel after almost 4 years of marriage
27 AUGUST
479 BC Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Plataea, Persian forces led by Mardonius routed by Greek army under Pausanias; together with Greek success at Battle of Mycale halts Persian invasion of Greece
663 Battle of Baekgang: Tang Chinese and Silla Korean forces defeat Korean Baekje forces and their Yamato Japanese allies on the Geum River in Korea; - no Japanese invasion of Korea for 900 years
1883 Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people
1979 Warrenpoint ambush: 18 British Army soldiers killed when Provisional IRA explode two roadside bombs as a British convoy passes Narrow Water Castle
2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States
Famous Birthday's
Donald Bradman
(1908 - 2001)
Lyndon B. Johnson
(1908 - 1973)
Barbara Bach
70th Birthday
Famous Deaths
W.E.B. Du Bois
(1868 - 1963)
Haile Selassie
(1892 - 1975)
Stevie Ray Vaughan
(1954 - 1990)
Famous Weddings
1930 Journalist H. L. Mencken (49) weds author Sara Haardt (32) at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church
1956 Socialite Gloria Vanderbilt (32) weds "12 Angry Men" director Sidney Lumet (32)
1966 American sportscaster Al Michaels (21) weds Linda Stamaton
1977 "Coral Reefer Band" singer Jimmy Buffett (30) weds Jane Slagsvol
1994 TV executive Anthony Radziwill (35) weds Emmy Award-winning journalist Carole Di Falco (31) in East Hampton, New York
28 AUGUST
1189 Third Crusade: the Crusaders begin the Siege of Acre under Guy of Lusignan
1609 English explorer Henry Hudson, discovers and explores Delaware Bay
1830 1st American built locomotive, "Tom Thumb" races a horse-drawn car from Stockton and Stokes stagecoach company from Baltimore to Ellicott Mills. Let history record that due to mechanical problems the horse won!
1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue
1864 First Geneva Convention, governing rules of warfare, signed by 26 nations
1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
Famous Birthday's
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749 - 1832)
Jack Kirby
(1917 - 1994)
Shania Twain
52nd Birthday
Famous Deaths
Albert Frederick
(1553 - 1618)
Frederick Law Olmsted
(1822 - 1903)
Emmett Till
(1941 - 1955)
Famous Weddings
1775 Statesman John Hancock (38) weds hostess Dorothy Quincy (28) in Fairfield, Connecticut
1811 English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (19) elopes to Scotland with 1st wife Harriet Westbrook (16)
1924 British children's writer Enid Blyton (27) marries editor Major Hugh Alexander Pollock, DSO (36)
1968 1 day marriage of character Murphy Brown
1997 British-Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (50) weds Elizabeth West
Famous Divorces
1953 Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald (36) divorces bass player Ray Brown (27) after 6 years of marriage
2009 Blake Fielder-Civil (27) divorces Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse (25) due to adultery after 2 years of marriage
29 AUGUST
1526 Battle of Mohács: In a decisive battle the Hungarian Empire is conquered by the Ottoman Empire led by Suleiman the Magnificent
1533 Francisco Pizarro orders the death of the last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa
1825 Portugal recognizes the Independence of Brazil
1842 Great Britain & China sign Treaty of Nanking, ends Opium war
2005 Hurricane Katrina makes its 2nd landfall as a category 3 hurricane devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida Panhandle. Kills more than 1,836, causes over $115 billion in damage.
Famous Birthday's
Ingrid Bergman
(1915 - 1982)
Michael Jackson
(1958 - 2009)
Chris Hadfield
58th Birthday
Famous Deaths
Brigham Young
(1801 - 1877)
Ingrid Bergman
(1915 - 1982)
Lee Marvin
(1924 - 1987)
Famous Weddings
1885 Pulitzer Prize-winning American author (Age of Innocence) Edith Jones (23), marries Edward "Teddy" Wharton (36)
1955 "Untamed Youth" actress Mamie Van Doren (24) weds trumpeter and actor Ray Anthony (33)
1964 46th US Vice President Dick Cheney (23) weds Lynne Ann Vincent (23) at the First Presbyterian Church of Casper in Wyoming
1968 Norwegian Crown Prince Harald (later Harald V) marries Sonja Haraldsen at Oslo Cathedral
1993 Actress Elke Sommer (52) weds Wolf Walther (46)
It probably does not happen very often, Ingrid Bergman born on this day and also died on the same date 67 years later, Lee Marvin an actor I rated died on this day.
Don't forget
29 John the Baptist, beheaded
1350 Battle of Winchelsea (or Les Espagnols sur Mer): The English naval fleet under King Edward III defeats a Castilian fleet of 40 ships.
708 Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
1640 English King Charles I signed a peace treaty with Scotland
1792 British man o'war HMS Royal George capsizes at Spithead; more than 800 killed
1883 Seismic sea waves created by Krakatoa eruption create a rise in English Channel 32 hrs after explosion
1958 George Harrison joins The Quarrymen (Lennon-McCartney-Best-Sutcliffe)
I leave some so others can contribute if they wish, which thankfully you have Server