- On the 24th of August, what transpired?
Current Calendar Page for August 24, 2024
Nicknames Day
Amadeus, Bart
Historical Happenings
2023 - For the first time in history, a mugshot of a ex-U.S. president, who's facing charges, gets snapped. After Donald Trump handed himself over to law enforcement at the Atlanta jail, he posted the photo on social media.
1989 - The Red Cross aids 108 East German refugees to leave their hideout in the West German embassy in Budapest and head to Bavaria.
1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki gets elected as the first non-communist Premier of Poland since World War II in Warsaw.
1814 - British troops take over the U.S. capital, Washington, during the war. They torch numerous public buildings in the process.
79 - The eruption of Vesuvius buries the Italian city of Pompeii, along with the neighboring towns of Herculaneum and Oplontis on the Gulf of Naples beneath a 25-meter thick layer of ash (according to certain sources, this happened in October 79).
Birthdays
1959 - Michael Kleeberg (65), renowned German writer ("Proteus the Wanderer")
1948 - Jean Michel Jarre (76), popular French musician and composer ("Oxygène", "Equinoxe", "Metamorphoses")
1942 - Hans Peter Korff (82), acclaimed German actor ("These Drombuschs", "Adelheid and Her Murderers")
Departures
2009 - Toni Sailer, esteemed Austrian skier, who won the first-ever gold medals in all three events: downhill, slalom, and giant slalom at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, passes away at the age of 74
2004 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, renowned American-Swiss psychiatrist and death researcher ("Understanding What Dying People Want to Say", "Conversations with the Dying"), takes her last breath at 78.
The history of August 24, 2024 may reveal significant events, similar to the mugshot incident of a former U.S. president in 2023.In studying the historical Happenings, one can also find mention of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, which buried the Italian city of Pompeii.
