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Vesuvius from Pompeii
Hurricane Andrew reached South Florida
Getúlio Vargas
Goodison Park
The 1888–89 New Zealand Native football team
The White House after having been burned by British troops
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1954 – Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas shot himself to death in the Catete Palace in Rio de Janeiro. | unreferenced section, lots of {{cn}} tags |
Eligible
- 49 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Forces loyal to Julius Caesar led by Gaius Scribonius Curio were crushingly defeated by Pompeian Republicans under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba I of Numidia.
- 79 – According to estimates based on the Codex Laurentianus Mediceus, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Italian towns of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae in rock and ash.
- 1482 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: The border town of Berwick-upon-Tweed and its castle were captured by English forces.
- 1690 – East India Company official Job Charnock established his headquarters in a location he called Calcutta.
- 1812 – Peninsular War: Seeing that his army was in danger of being cut off, French commander Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult retreated from Cádiz, ending a 30-month siege.
- 1814 – War of 1812: British forces invaded Washington, D.C., setting fire to various U.S. government buildings, including what is now the White House.
- 1857 – The New York City branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. collapsed following widespread embezzlement, leading to a severe recession that caused about 5,000 businesses to fail.
- 1889 – The predominantly Māori New Zealand Native football team played the last match of their 107-game tour, the longest in rugby union history.
- 1892 – Goodison Park in Liverpool, England, one of the world's first purpose-built football grounds, opened.
- 1942 – World War II: Bombers from the United States aircraft carrier Saratoga sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō near Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands, helping to lead to an Allied victory.
- 1963 – Buddhist crisis: The U.S. State Department ordered Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. to encourage South Vietnamese Army officers to oust Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not willingly remove Ngo Dinh Nhu from his unofficial position of power.
- 1992 – Hurricane Andrew made landfall in South Florida, the third most powerful Category 5 system to hit the United States during the 20th century.
- 2004 – About 90 total people died after suicide bombers attacked two airliners flying out of Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport.
- 2006 – The International Astronomical Union redefined the term "planet", reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet since it has not "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit.
Notes
- Xá Lợi Pagoda raids appears on Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 21|August 21]], so Cable 243 should not appear in the same year
- Chennai appears on August 22, so Kolkata should not appear in the same year
August 24: Independence Day in Ukraine (1991)
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Lance Armstrong
- 410 – Rome was sacked for the first time in 800 years, by the Visigoths under Alaric I.
- 1456 – The oldest known version of the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book produced on a printing press, was completed.
- 1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba was signed, ratifying the Plan of Iguala and concluding Mexico's War of Independence from Spain.
- 1941 – Adolf Hitler ordered the official termination of the T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings continued in secret for the remainder of the war.
- 2012 – American cyclist Lance Armstrong (pictured) was banned from all competitions and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for using illicit performance-enhancing drugs.