Today In History – 24 August 2020
Learn what happened today in history around the world including major events across the world!
Year: 79
Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die
Year: 410
Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire
Year: 1391
Jews of Palma, Mallorca, massacred
Year: 1516
Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate
Year: 1572
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces
Year: 1600
East India Company’s first ship ‘HECTOR’ reached at Surat Port.
Year: 1608
1st English convoy lands at Surat, India
Year: 1662
Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer
Year: 1682
Calcutta city was established.
Year: 1690
Job Charnock sets up East India Company HQ camp by Kalikata village (modern Calcutta)
Year: 1704
Battle of Málaga: largest naval battle in the War of the Spanish Succession; Tactically indecisive but a Grand Alliance strategic victory
Year: 1789
French Revolution: The National Assembly proclaims freedom of speech
Year: 1814
British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812)
Year: 1853
1st potato chips prepared by chef George Crum at Moon’s Lake House, near Saratoga Springs, New York (popular legend says he invented though earlier recipes exist)
Year: 1857
The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in U.S. history.
Year: 1911
Manuel d’Arriaga elected first president of Portugal
Year: 1912
District of Alaska becomes an organized incorporated territory of the United States
Year: 1949
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
Year: 1968
France becomes the world’s fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific
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