This Day in History Aug. 24

Posted by blue water massey on August 23, 2015 at 22:46:26 from (198.254.227.107):

Aug. 24

1682 William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware

1781 Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group

1814 British troops invade Washington, D.C. the White house and many buildings are set ablaze.

1816 The Treaty of St. Louis is signed

1857 The Panic of 1857, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.

1870 The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion

1891 Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera

1909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.

1914 German troops capture Namur.

1914 The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.

1932 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop

1936 The Australian Antarctic Territory is created

1942 Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged.

1944 Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established

1954 The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party

1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC

1966 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon

1968 France became world's 5th thermonuclear power

1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth

1979 UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps

1981 Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.

1989 Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1992 Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane.

2001 Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.

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