August 24

Holidays

• Liberia: Flag Day
• RC Saints - Feast day of Saint Bartholomew
• Roman festivals - first of the 3 days on which the mundus was opened
• Ukraine: National Holiday, independence from Russia (1991)
• Sierra Leone: President's Birthday
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Events

• 2018 Spanish government approves a decree amending the Historical Memory Law that allows the government to exhume Francisco Franco’s remains from Valle de los Caidos.
• 2017 Archaeology in Israel: An archaeological mosaic from the 6th century, dated to Justinian I's rule, was discovered while installing communication cables inside Jerusalem's Old City.
• 2016 Syrian civil war: US-backed rebels and the Turkish Armed Forces join forces to take Jarabulus from ISIL. To prevent ISIL from retaking areas they will not retreat from, the Turkish Land Forces are also bombarding YPG positions.
• 2015 Turkey-PKK conflict - Two Turkish Army soldiers are killed and three injured by an IED on a roadside near Semdinli, Hakkari Province. (Reuters via LBC Group.) Insurgents from the PKK set fire to a natural gas pipeline in Turkey’s southeastern Kars Province, near the Armenian border.
• 2014 Turkey is under intense international pressure after more than 18 months worth of requests to secure its borders from the influx foreign fighters, oil and weapons entering Syria to fight ISIS. ISIS fighters are moving towards the Turkey-Syria border with armored cars stolen from Iraqi military bases.
• 2013 Syrian civil war: Medecins Sans Frontieres reports that 3,600 cases of neurotoxic symptoms were treated by Medecins Sans Frontieres, with 355 deaths.
• 2012 Civil war in Syria:
• 2011 2011 Battle of Tripoli
• 2010 The US military in Iraq reduces its strength to 50,000 troops
• 2009 The US government has ended its month-long "cash-for-clunkers" program. It spent $2.9 billion on rebates for 690,000 low efficiency vehicles. Top trade-in was the Ford Explorer four-wheel drive; Toyota Corolla was top new purchase.
• 2008 Ten people, including four Americans on humanitarian missions, were killed when an aircraft crashed in Guatemala.
• 2007 Lisa Nowak, former NASA astronaut, was arrested and taken into custody.
• 2006 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict:
• 2005 Jeanvie Conflict between Israel and Palestine:
• 2004 Two airliners that were flying out of Domodedovo International Airport near Moscow explode, killing 89 passengers. Suicide bombers (reportedly female) from Russia caused the explosions.
• 2003 Hurricane Ignacio is approaching the coast of Baja California. All airports and harbours in close proximity to low-lying areas must be evacuated.
• 2001 Film: Bubble Boy
• 1998 E.G. Marshall, American actor (The Defenders, Nixon, Absolute Power), dies at age 88 (born 1910).
• 1997 97th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
• 1996 Microsoft releases Windows NT 4.0, with graphical user interface similar to that of Windows 95. The software comprises 16.5 million lines of code. Code-name during development was Cairo.
• 1995 Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
• 1994 Israel and PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare and tourism
• 1993 Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
• 1992 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
• 1991 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
• 1990 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
• 1989 British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
• 1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes.
• 1986 Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
• 1985 STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
• 1984 Pat Bradley set the LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver, Colorado.
• 1983 Cin Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745
• 1981 American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
• 1980 Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
• 1979 Cars play concert in New York Central Park
• 1976 Soyuz 21 returns to Earth.
• 1975 Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
• 1974 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
• 1973 John Adams and his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium
• 1972 Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 vs. Australia
• 1971 India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
• 1970 Bomb kills one at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison.
• 1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament
• 1968 France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.
• 1967 Liberian flag designed.
• 1966 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
• 1964 27 – The Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City nominates incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson for a full term, and U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate.
• 1963 Don Schollander swims the 200-metre freestyle in less than 2 minutes for the first time, in a world record time of 1:58.
• 1962 Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection while in the clubhouse at the Polo Grounds
• 1960 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil.
• 1959 England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
• 1958 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
• 1956 First non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrives in Washington DC.
• 1954 Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
• 1950 1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
• 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
• 1948 The first meeting of the charter members of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) is held.
• 1945 Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy and strike out 12
• 1944 Gen LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
• 1943 Philadelphia Athletics drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game
• 1942 Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
• 1941 WWII: A Luftwaffe bomb hits an Estonian steamer with 3,500 Soviet-mobilized Estonian men on board, killing 598 of them.
• 1940 Luftwaffe bombs London
• 1939 Germany and the USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
• 1938 England beat Australia by an innings and 579 runs at The Oval
• 1937 Republican offensive near Belchite Spain
• 1936 FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists
• 1933 The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake : Potomac hurricane.
• 1932 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
• 1931 Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
• 1929 43rd US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson
• 1927 August 25 ampndash The 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane hits the Atlantic Provinces of Canada, causing massive damage and at least 56 deaths.
• 1925 39th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane
• 1923 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
• 1922 1st Phillie to hit for cycle
• 1921 Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey and Greece
• 1919 Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning
• 1918 Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever
• 1914 Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian / British troops
• 1912 US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition the government.
• 1908 Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1906 Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game.
• 1905 Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings.
• 1904 24th US Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier
• 1902 A statue of Joan of Arc is unveiled in Saint-Pierre-le-Moutier.
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Famous Birthday

Who was born on August 24?

• Paulo Coelho

  Brazilian esoteric writer who's books are extremely popular and sell internationally.

• Rupert Grint

  Movie Actor.

• Chad Michael Murray
• Stephen Fry

  English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, director, and activist.

• Dave Chappelle

  American actor and Comedian.

• Alex O'Loughlin

  Australian actor.

• Anne Archer

  American actress.

• Marlee Matlin

  American actress and winner of an Oscar as Best Actress in "Children of a Lesser God," 1985.

• Martha Higareda
• Steve Guttenberg

  American actor and producer.

• Paola Pitagora
• Jean Desailly
• Karrine Steffans

  Novelist.

• Pia Degermark

  Swedish actress.

• Barret Oliver
• Takashi Miike

  Japanese actor director producer and screenwriter.

• Jennifer Lien

  American actress and producer.

• Jared Harris

  English actor.

• Dorothy Comingore

  Actress (Citizen Kane), dies after illness at 58.

• Wenwen Han

  Movie Actress.

• Jackie Tohn
• David Gregory

  American journalist and host of "Meet the Press," a weekly current affairs television show, beginning late 2008.

• Craig Kilborn

  American actor and talk show host.

• Pierfrancesco Favino

  Italian actor, who has appeared in more than forty European films and television series since the early 1990s, including Gabriele Muccino's...

• David Koechner

  American actor producer and screenwriter.

• Dennis James

  Jersey City, New Jersey -- Wrestling announcer / TV host (PDQ).

• Griffin Gluck

  TV Actor.

• Peter Vogel

  German footballer.

• Peter Lanzani

  TV Actor.

• Kenny Baker

  English actor.

• Ronee Blakley

  American singer-songwriter producer and actress.

• Anjali Devi

  Indian actress and producer (d. 2014).

• John Green

  Young Adult Author.

• Aaron Douglas

  Actor.

• Jean-Michel Jarre

  French musician, songwriter and recording artist, known for keyboarding and as a synthesizer genius.

• Léo Ferré

  Monegasque poet, composer and a dynamic and controversial live performer whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World...

• Nancy Spero

  American artist in figurative Expressionism.

• Houston (Texas)
• Christine Chubbuck
• Grégory Villemin
• Holly Hallstrom

  American TV hostess of the game show, "The Price is Right," from 1977 to 1995.

• Alexandre Coste Grimaldi
• Fabienne Carat
• Reggie Miller

  American black noted pro basketball player chosen by the Indiana Pacers in the first round draft pick out of UCLA on 22 June 1987.

• Pierre Sarkozy
• Vince McMahon

  American professional wrestling promoter.

• John Green (author)
• Simone Pepe
• Rockford (Illinois)
• Jean-Marc Thibault

  French actor (mainly in TV series) and filmmaker.

• 2016 Central Italy earthquake
• René Lévesque

  Canadian politician, the 23rd premier of Quebec.

• Rodrigo García
• Paulo Leminski

  Brazilian poet, known for his exquisite verbal invention and detached irony.

• Howard Zinn

  American historian author and activist (d. 2010).

• Carmine Giovinazzo

  American actor and singer.

• Sophie Fontanel
• Roger De Vlaeminck

  Belgian champion cyclist, noted family, brother of cyclist Erik de Vlaeminck.

• James d'Arcy
• Stéphane Richard

  French public servant and business manager, currently CEO of Orange (formerly called France Telecom).

• Hideo Kojima

  Japanese video game director.

• Explorer 5 (United States satellite)
• Destiny Davis
• Roger Linn

  American musician and entrepreneur.

• Pierre Mazeaud

  French politician, jurist and state counselor.

• Cal Ripken

  American baseball player: shortstop, Orioles.

• Denílson (Brazilian footballer)
• Jacques Maire
• Rachel Carpani
• Ingrid Berghmans

  Belgian martial artist.

• Huguette Bello
• Ian Rosenberg (Survivor)
• Yesung

  Pop Singer.

• Sauli Niinistö

  Finnish captain and politician 12th President of Finland.

• Roland Ménard
• Isabelle Minière
• Yves Allegro
• Lucien Jeunesse

  French radio host, actor, crooner and operetta singer, who died on 4 May 2008.

• Shirley Hufstedler

  American lawyer and jurist she was US Secretary of Education from 1979-1981.

• Roger Chapelain-Midy

  French painter, lithographer and decorato.

• Fernand Braudel

  French historian and academic (d. 1985).

• Kaya Wittenburg
• Tetsu Sawaki
• Eric Bernard

  French racing driver.

• Peppino de Filippo
• Jiro Wang

  Taiwanese singer and actor (Fahrenheit and Dong Cheng Wei).

• René-Jean Chauffard
• Mason Williams

  American musician-composer and author, originally hired as a gag writer for the "Smothers Brothers" television show, who then starred as a...

• Bill Sweeney
• Shoichi Funaki

  Japanese-American wrestler and sportscaster.

• Leonardo Conti

  Swiss-German Third Reich Health Leader, a specialist in the "race questions.

• John Powless

  American champion tennis player.

• Kim Källström

  Swedish footballer.

• Christian Liger
• Pierre Barillet

  French playwright who worked in close collaboration with Jean-Pierre Grédy.

• Barbara Shafferman

  American astrologer, teaching astrology from 1975 in adult education programs at two school districts and then lecturing at local libraries...

• Guillaume Cramoisan
• Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian

  French writer of youth literature; her best known work is the series of phantasy novels about.

• Kwesi Ameyaw
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Famous Deaths

• Louis Prima

  American singer-songwriter trumpet player and actor (d. 1978).

• Amanda Randolph

  Actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65.

• Max Shulman

  American writer, screenwriter and playwright best known for creating the adventurous 1950's teen Dobie Gillis.

• Kenneth Leighton

  Composer, dies at 28.

• Leo Blech

  Composer, dies at 87.

• Maurice Schoemaker

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas

  US jazz saxophonist, dies at 59.

• Slava Vorlova

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Leonard Frey

  Actor (Tattoo, Magic Christian), dies of AIDS at 49.

• Andreas M Donner

  Dutch state leader / jurist (Constitution), dies at 74.

• Albert Edward Sammons

  Composer, dies at 71.

• Jason McRoy

  Downhill MTB racer, dies at 23.

• Wijnanda MC "Nan" Aberson

  Friend of Gerard Van de Reve Sr, dies at 82.

• Ahmed Bahauddin

  Journalist, dies at 69.

• Emile Noel

  International civil servant, dies at 73.

• John Christopherson

  Artist / collector, dies at 75.

• Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss

  Journalist / travel writer, dies at 42.

• Alfred Stevens

  Belgian artist who became an immensely successful painter during the 1860s, known for his paintings of elegant modern women.

• Larrie Londin

  Jazz drummer, dies at 48.

• John G Strijdom

  Premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65.

• Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66.

• Paul G Nipkow

  German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80.

• Ernst Ottwalt

  Writer.

• Ernst Wiechert

  Writer, dies at 63.

• Henry George Ley

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Henry J Kaiser

  Industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85.

• Charles H Revson

  US cosmetic magnate, dies at 69.

• Michael Dewar Head

  Composer, dies at 76.

• Jack Somack

  Actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64.

• Pieter Louis Tak

  Writer (Chronicle), dies at 58.

• Paul Creston [Giuseppe / Joseph Guttoveggio]

  US composer, dies at 78.

• Abel Kivlat

  US 1500m runner (1912 Olympics - Silver Medalist), dies at 99.

• Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk

  Neth / Indon writer (Camp Diary), dies at 86.

• Mike Sokoll

  Cowboy actor, dies at 97.

• Erich Geiringer

  General Practitioner campaigner, dies at 78.

• Phillip Humphrey Vellacott

  Classicist, dies at 90.

• Bernard Castro

  patented convertible couch, dies at age 87.

• Gary Crosby

  American actor and noted family, the first of four sons of Bing and Dixie Crosby.

• Bayard Rustin

  American civil rights activist (d. 1987).

• Shawn Lewis

  5th Wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, dies of methadone overdose.

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Top #1 songs in the USA

• 2017 Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber - Despacito
• 2016 Sia Featuring Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills
• 2015 The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face
• 2014 MAGIC! - Rude
• 2013 Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
• 2012 Flo Rida - Whistle
• 2011 Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
• 2010 Eminem - Love The Way You Lie
• 2009 The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
• 2008 Rihanna - Disturbia
• 2007 Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls
• 2006 Fergie - London Bridge
• 2005 Mariah Carey - We Belong Together
• 2004 Terror Squad - Lean Back
• 2003 Beyonce - Crazy In Love
• 2002 Nelly - Dilemma
• 2001 Alicia Keys - Fallin'
• 2000 Janet - Doesn't Really Matter
• 1999 Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle
• 1998 Brandy & Monica - The Boy Is Mine
• 1997 Puff Daddy & Faith Evans - I'll Be Missing You
• 1996 Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)
• 1995 Seal - Kiss From A Rose
• 1994 Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
• 1993 UB40 - Can't Help Falling In Love
• 1992 Boyz II Men - End Of The Road
• 1991 Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
• 1990 Mariah Carey - Vision Of Love
• 1989 Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
• 1988 George Michael - Monkey
• 1987 Madonna - Who's That Girl
• 1986 Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
• 1985 Huey Lewis & The News - Power Of Love
• 1984 Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters
• 1983 The Police - Every Breath You Take
• 1982 Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
• 1981 Diana Ross - Endless Love
• 1980 Olivia Newton-John - Magic
• 1979 The Knack - My Sharona
• 1978 Frankie Valli - Grease
• 1977 The Emotions - Best Of My Love
• 1976 Elton John - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
• 1975 Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds - Fallin' In Love
• 1974 Paul Anka - (You're) Having My Baby
• 1973 Stories - Brother Louie
• 1972 Looking Glass - Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
• 1971 Bee Gees - How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
• 1970 Bread - Make It With You
• 1969 The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
• 1968 The Rascals - People Got To Be Free
• 1967 Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe
• 1966 The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City
• 1965 Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe
• 1964 The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go
• 1963 Little Stevie Wonder - Fingertips - Pt 2
• 1962 Little Eva - The Loco-Motion
• 1961 Bobby Lewis - Tossin' And Turnin'
• 1960 Elvis Presley - It's Now Or Never
• 1959 Elvis Presley - A Big Hunk O' Love
• 1958 Domenico Modugno - Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare)
• 1957 Elvis Presley - (Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear
• 1955 Bill Haley and His Comets - (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock
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Top #1 Rock songs

• 2017 Imagine Dragons - Believer
• 2016 twenty one pilots - Heathens
• 2015 WALK THE MOON - Shut Up And Dance
• 2014 Coldplay - A Sky Full Of Stars
• 2013 Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
• 2012 Green Day - Oh Love
• 2011 Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie
• 2010 Linkin Park - The Catalyst
• 2009 Linkin Park - New Divide