August 24 Today is my forty-second birthday.
Other less important things related to the Aug. 24:
79: Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabia - Eruption of Vesuvius
410 - The Visigoths under Alaric sack Rome for three days.
1349 to 6000 Jews are killed in Mainz blamed for the epidemic of bubonic plague. 1391 - Jews are massacred in Palma de Mallorca.
1456 - completes the printing of the Gutenberg Bible.
1511 - The Portuguese conquer Malacca.
1572 - Massacre of St. Bartholomew: On the orders of King Charles IX of France, began the massacre of the Huguenots (Protestants French).
1608 - The first official British representative in India lands in Surat.
1690 - was founded Calcutta (India).
1814 - British troops invade Washington and burn the White House and several other buildings. 1831 - Charles Darwin is asked to travel on HMS Beagle.
1847 - Charlotte Bronte to write Jane Eyre ends.
1853 - are prepared for the first time the fries.
1857 - Start the Panic of 1857, one of the worst economic crises in U.S. history. 1858 - A Richmond (Virginia), 90 blacks were arrested on charges of "learning."
1891 - Thomas Edison patented a film camera.
1909 - Workers begin pouring cement for the Panama Canal.
1912 - Alaska becomes a U.S. territory.
1914 - German troops capture Namur.
1929 - Turkey and Persia signed a treaty of friendship.
1931 - France and Soviet Union sign a treaty of nonaggression.
1942 - World War II: the Battle of Eastern Solomon Islands, the Japanese aircraft carrier is sunk Ryuho.
1949 - Entry into force of the Treaty establishing NATO.
1954 - In the U.S. enters into force the Communist Control Act. The American Communist Party is outlawed.
1960 - The temperature of -88 ° C is recorded at Vostok, Antarctica, is the lowest ever recorded.
1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years in prison for the killing of John Lennon.
1989 - The Colombian drug barons declare "total war" to the Colombian government.
1989 - The space probe Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
1990 - A U.S. judge ruled that the heavy metal band Judas Priest is not responsible for the deaths of two youths who had committed suicide after listening to their music. 1990 - Sinead O'Connor refused to perform at the Garden State Arts Plaza in Holmdel (New Jersey) if The Star Spangled Banner is played before the concert, as usual.
1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 - Ukraine declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 - Initial Agreement between Israel and the PLO on self part of the Palestinians in the West Bank.
1995 - Windows 95 is released.
2003 - The U.S. spacecraft Voyager 2 was 71 astronomical units away from the Earth and coming out of the solar system at about 3.3 AU per year (approx. 15 km / s). By 40,000 years Voyager 2 will reach another planetary system.
2006 - IAU demotes Pluto to a dwarf planet.
Born 1113 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, father of Henry II of England 1198 - Alexander II of Scotland 1358 - King John I of Castile, king of Castile († 1390) 1393 - Arthur III, the executioner, Duke of Brittany 1591 - Robert Herrick, English poet 1669 - Alessandro Marcello, composer († 1747) 1759 - William Wilberforce, an activist against slavery 1772 - King William I of the Netherlands (1814-1840) 1787 - James Weddell, Antarctic explorer († 1834) 1817 - Aleksei Tolstoy, novelist and poet 1837 - Théodore Dubois, composer and teacher († 1924) 1856 - Anselmo Bassani, Italian mathematician († 1911) 1863 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer († 1918) 1865 - King Ferdinand I of Romania 1880 - Joshua Lionel Cowen, inventor of the electric train 1881 - Vincenzo Lancia, the founder of the homonymous dell'indutria 1884 - Earl Derr Biggers, author († 1933) 1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer († 1986) 1903 - Peppino De Filippo, actor and playwright († 1980) 1915 - James Tiptree, Jr., writer 1929 - Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader († 2004) 1936 - Antonia S. Byatt, English writer 1938 - David Freiburg, bassist (Jefferson Starship) 1939 - Max Bunker, author, writer, journalist and editor of Italian 1944 - Jim Capaldi, singer 1945 - Ken Hensley, rock musician (Uriah Heep) 1947 - Paulo Coelho, poet Brazilian writer and 1950 - Marc Aaronson, American astronomer († 1987) 1951 - Orson Scott Card, novelist 1952 - Joe Strummer, musician 1957 - Stephen Fry, comedian, author and English actor 1958 - Steve Guttenberg, actor 1960 - Takashi Miike, director Japanese 1964 - Raul Taste, poet, gemologist
1981 - Lorenzo Porzio, vests
Italian National Holidays & Occasions
Liberia: Flag Day Sierra Leone: President's Birthday
Ukraine: National holiday
Also:
Audoen, Bishop of Rouen
St. Bartholomew, Apostle .
Festival of Benevento, Boves, Bojano, Borzonasca, Fara Vicentino, Formigine, Geraci Siculus, Giarratana, Aeolian Islands, Patti and Ronciglione. Sant'Emiliano de Viale, St. Rose of Lima, patron saint of Peru, San Ptolemy, martyr
Thank you all. To all those who have left a voicemail message to those who have left a comment on this blog, those who have sent us an email. Thanks even those that I have just thought. A hug to Camilla.
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