24. August
of the 24. August is the 236. Day of the Gregorian calendar (the 237. in leap years), thus still 129 days up to the year end remain.
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of events
- 79: The Vesuv breaks out and destroys Pompeji.
- ,410: The Westgoten under Alarich I. conquer and plündern Rome.
- 1349: Beginning of a Pogroms against Jews in Cologne, which are suspected of the debt at the plague. Several thousand humans die or are driven out, the Jewish quarter by the mobilization down-burned.
- 1814: During the British-American war men hunts 4,500 a strong British army inthe battle with Bladensburg apart and the US capital Washington conquers an American Milizarmee comprehensive over 7.000 men. The Kapitol is damaged destroyed, the white house, and president James Madison must flee with his government after Virginia.
- 1853: Potato chipare for the first time prepared.
- 1866: The last Presidential Election Council of the German federation in Augsburg leads to its self dissolution.
- 1866: In Vienna and Lower Austria a Cholera epidemic disease breaks out , which will demand 15,000 dead ones until November.
- 1952: British one Troops evacuate the Sueskanal.
- 1953: The zebra crossing is introduced to Germany.
- 1954: Of Brazil president Getúlio Dornelles Vargas the life takes itself.
- 1961: First victim at the citizens of Berlin wall becomes eleven days after border locking with an escape attemptthe GDR - Citizen Günter Litfin.
- 1968: France ignites its first hydrogen bomb
- 1989: In Poland Tadeusz Mazowiecki becomes after first not-communist Prime Minister the Second World War.
- 1991: The Ukraine becomes independent.
- 1992: On the third day of the hostile to foreignersExcesses in Rostock Lichtenhagen it comes to an arson attack on a house inhabited by Vietnamesen.
- 1995: Georgien gives itself a new (democratic) condition.
- 1995: With the attempt to defuse one in complaint ford before a bilingual school discovered tubing bomb become thatPoliceman Theo Kelz both hands blown away. As bomb casual Franz fox will be identified.
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culture
- 1913: In Copenhagen the small sea virgin becomes solemnly 1990
- reveal: The Diddl mouse is outlined for the first time by Thomas Goletz
religion
- 1572: In the Bartholomäusnacht culminate the Huguenot wars in a massacre, with the catholic in Paris 3,000 Calvinisten murder
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disasters
- 79: With an outbreak of the Vesuv the Roman cities Pompeji, Herculaneum and Stabiae buries
- 1921: The rigid airship R38 /ZR II has an accident during its fourth test travel. 44 dead ones
- 1951: Sew union town center, California, the USA. A DC-6 fell. 50 dead ones
- 1992: The hurricane Andrew crosses the Bahamas and Florida and addresses heavy devastations to
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sport
- 1875: The Australian Matthew Webb through-swims as first humans the English Channel
- 1926: Max Schmeling defeats max of Diekmann and becomes at the age of 21 years of German masters in the light heavyweight
- 1963: For the start of the first season of the soccer federal league in Germany jet the Second Channel of German Television for the first time „the current sport Studio “out
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born
Joaquim António de Aguiar (1792-1884)
- 1420: Albrecht of Eyb, German human and writer
- 1487: Bartholomäus Bernhardi, theologian
- 1511: Jean Bauhin, French physician
- 1759: William Wilberforce, British parliamentarian and leader in the fight against the slave trade
- 1772: William I., King of the Netherlands
- 1787: James Weddell, English polar researcher,Sailor and whaler
- 1792: Joaquim António de Aguiar, Portuguese politician, leader of the Cartisten
- 1837: Théodore Dubois, French composer
- 1837: Adolf of Wilbrandt, German writer and director of the castle theatre in Vienna
- 1838: Sanford ChristieBarnum, dentist, inventor of the Kofferdam_ (dental medicine)
- 1839: Eduard Naprawnik, Czech conductor and composer
- 1865: Ferdinand I., King of Romania
- 1866: Josef Jarno, Austrian actor and theatre manager
- 1884: Earl Derr Biggers, US-American writer
- 1888: Leo Bosschart, Netherlands football player
- 1890: Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian float and founder of the modern Surfsports
- 1890: Jean Rhys, Dominican authoress
- 1899: Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer
- 1900: Leonardo Conti, bossthe realm physician chamber during the NS time
- 1902: Remote and Braudel, French historian
- 1902: Carlo Gambino, American gangster
- 1903: Graham Suez ago country, British painter and commercial artist
- 1905: Arthur Crudup, US-amerikanischer musician and Songschreiber
- 1906: Ruth Berlau, Danish-German actress
- 1911: Victor Barna, Hungarian table tennis player and repeated world champion
- 1911: Friedrich air, German journalist
- 1915: Wynonie Harris, US-American singer
- 1918: Avery Dulles, US-amerikanischer theologian and cardinal
- 1919: Niels Viggo Bentzon, Danish composer
- 1920: Harsh ore buyer, German journalist and writer
- 1925: Karel Vrána, Czech theologian and philosopher
- 1927: Harry M. Markowitz, US-American economist
- 1929: Jassir Arafat, president of the PalestinianAutonomy areas (4. , 24. or 27. August)
- 1931: Friedhelm Dohmann, SPD MdB 1969-1970
- 1932: Cormac Murphy O'Connor, tenth archbishop of Westminster, cardinal and Primas
- 1932: Heinz Werner Meyer, German trade unionist, DGB-REPRESENTATIVE
- 1934: Kenny Baker, US-American actor
- 1936: Antonio María Rouco Varela, archbishop of Madrid and cardinal
- 1936: Antonia S. Byatt, English authoress
- 1939: Joshua Sobol, Israeli dramatist
- 1941: Hans Reimann (sportsman), German athlete and olympia medal winner
- 1942: Hans Peter Korff, German actor
- 1942: Franc Michael Pietzsch, German politician, Minister in Thuringia
- 1943: John Cipollina, US-American musician
- 1945: Ken Hensley, British musician (Uriah Heep)
- 1947: Roger de Vlaeminck, Belgian wheel running driver
- 1948: Nana Dschordschadse, Georgian film rain eating urine
- 1948: Jean Michel Jarre, French Synthesizer musician
- 1949: Natalja Lebedjewa, Russian light athlete and Olympionikin
- 1951: Danny Joe Brown, US-American musician
- 1952: Joe Strummer, British musician
- 1952: GusVan Sant, US-amerikanischer film director
- 1953: Sascha Anderson one, German writer
- 1953: Elfi tin, German light athlete and olympia medal winner
- 1954: Salomé, German painter and representative of the new wild ones
- 1956: Nina Ruge, German TV-host
- 1957: Stephen Fry, British actor and writer
- 1958: Steve Guttenberg, US-American actor
- 1960: Franz cattle support, the first Austrian Austronaut
- 1965: Reggie Miller, US-amerikanischer basketball player
- 1965: Pavel Telička, Czech politician and European Union commissioner
- 1973: David (Dave) Chappelle, US-American Comedian and actor
- 1974: Jürgen Macho, Austrian football player
- 1981: Chad Michael Murray, US-more American play-ground. Ing
- 1982: Björn close-flow, Swedish football player
- 1988: Rupert Grint, British actor
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died
Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572)
Henri d'Artois (1820-1883)
- 79: Plinius the older one, Roman scholar
- ,672: Kōbun, 39. Emperor of Japan
- 1313: Heinrich VII., Count by Luxembourg and Laroche,Roman-German emperor
- 1475: Albrecht of Eyb, German human and writer
- 1540: Parmigianino, Italian painter of the mannersism
- 1572: Claude Goudimel, French composer
- 1572: Gaspard II. de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon, French admiral andHuguenot leader
- 1617: Pink one by Lima, holy one, Mystikerin, Dominikaner Terzianerin
- 1759: Ewald Christian von Kleist, Prussian poet and officer
- 1804: Valentin Adamberger, German opera singer
- 1832: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist
- 1846: AdamJohann of Krusenstern, first Russian Weltumsegler
- 1847: Charles lurk HuguesThéobald de Choiseul Praslin, French noble
- 1856: Carl Justus Heyer, forstlicher practical man, teacher and scientist
- 1856: William bending country, English geologist and paleontologist
- 1864: Jakob Lorber,Austrian writer and musician
- 1883: Henri d'Artois, in opinion of the legitimatists as Heinrich V. King of France
- 1885: Anna Plochl, countess of Meran
- 1888: Jakob Eisendle, south animal oilers farmer, mechanic and inventor
- 1888: RudolfJulius Emanuel Clausius, German physicist
- 1919: Friedrich Naumann, Evangelist theologian and politician
- 1921: Nikolai Stepanowitsch Gumiljow, Russian poet of the silver age
- 1929: January Frizewitsch Fabrizius, brigade commander of the Red Army
- 1940: Paul Nipkow, German technician and inventor, television pioneer
- 1943: Simone because, French philosophies
- 1944: Rudolf broad-separate, German politician
- 1946: Harry Maasz, important garden architect and horticulture writer
- 1950: Arturo Alessandri Palma, Chilean politician
- 1950: Ernst Wiechert, German writer
- 1954: Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil
- 1961: Günter Litfin, the first dead one at the citizens of Berlin wall
- 1966: Tadeusz Komorowski, commander in chief of the Polish homeland army
- 1971: Carl Blegen, US AmericanArchaeologist
- 1972: Don Byas, jazz tenor saxophone player
- 1974: Alexander Procofieff De Seversky, US-amerikanischer aviation engineer
- 1978: Louis great, US-American musician and singer
- 1979: Hanna Reitsch, German Flugpionierin and aviator
- 1982: Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer
- 1983: Scott Nearing, US-American environmentalist and writer
- 1985: Morrie Ryskind, US-American author
- 1994: Wolf of Aichelburg, Romanian-German writer
- 1995: Zbynek Brynych, Czech director
- 1997: Luigi Villoresi, Formel-1-Rennfahrer
- 1997: Werner Abrolat, German actor
- 2000: Andy Hug, Swiss competitive athlete
- 2001: Donald A. Prater, English writer, Germanist and diplomat
- 2002: Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Netherlands astronomer
- 2003: Harsh ore Otto, GermanWriter
- 2004: Elizabeth Kübler Ross, Swiss-US-American Medizinerin
- 2004: Irmgard Düren, host of the former television of the GDR
- 2005: Ambrogio Fogar, Italian adventurer
- 2005: William J. Eaton, US-American journalist
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of celebration and anniversaries
- National holiday in the Ukraine (independence day of 1991)
- Bartholomäus
see also: Historical anniversaries, time scale
