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79 \u2013 Mount Vesuvius erupts and in 2 days buries the cities of Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabiae,\u00a0 aaaand<\/em> Pompeii.<\/p>\n 410 \u2013 The Visigoths under King Alaric I sack Rome.<\/p>\n 1215 \u2013 A little over 2 months after being signed by him, King John of England persuades Pope Innocent III to issue a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid.<\/p>\n 1682 \u2013 William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Penn<\/em><\/strong>sylvania.<\/p>\n 1781 \u2013 Militia reinforcements for General George Rogers Clark, under the command of Archibald Lochry, are ambushed and overwhelmed near present day Aurora, Indiana by a Mohawk force under the command of Joseph ‘Thayendanegea’ Brant, which forces Clark to abandon his attempt to attack British held Detroit.<\/p>\n 1814 \u2013 British troops invade Washington D.C. and set fire to the White House, the Capitol, and many other buildings.<\/p>\n 1816 \u2013 The first Treaty of St. Louis<\/em> between the U.S. and the Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi tribes is signed in, *drum roll*\u00a0 St. Louis, Missouri<\/p>\n 1841 \u2013 Captain John Ordronaux, reputedly the most successful American privateer of the War of 1812, dies in\u00a0 Cartagena, Colombia<\/p>\n 1857 \u2013 The financial Panic of 1857 caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy,\u00a0begins in the U.S and due to the invention of the telegraph spread rapidly throughout the nation.<\/p>\n 1909 \u2013 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop, from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey.<\/p>\n 1933 \u2013 Southern Railways, Crescent Limited<\/em> train derails in Washington, D.C., after the Anacostia River bridge it is crossing was washed out by a hurricane hitting the area earlier in the day.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 The Japanese aircraft carrier Ry\u016bj\u014d<\/em> is sunk and the U.S. carrier USS Enterprise<\/em> is heavily damaged in The Battle of the Eastern Solomons.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 British Prime Minister Attlee informs Parliament that Britain is in “a very serious financial position” due to the abrupt ending of Lend-Lease by President Truman<\/p>\n 1949 \u2013 The treaty creating NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,\u00a0 goes into effect.<\/p>\n 1951 \u2013 United Air Lines Flight 615, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Decoto, California, killing all 50 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The Communist Control Act<\/em> goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party as a “Communist-action” organization.<\/p>\n 1970 \u2013 Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 Colombian drug cartels declare “total war” on the Colombian government.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 Hurricane Andrew<\/em> makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category 5 hurricane<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 Microsoft Windows 95 is released to the public in North America.<\/p>\n 2006 \u2013 The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term “planet” such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet.<\/p>\n 2012 \u2013 Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, killing 77 people, is sentenced to 21 years of preventive detention.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 24 79 \u2013 Mount Vesuvius erupts and in 2 days buries the cities of Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabiae,\u00a0 aaaand Pompeii. 410 \u2013 The Visigoths under King Alaric I sack Rome. 1215 \u2013 A little over 2 months after being signed by him, King John of England 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