August 24, Hurricane Andrew strikes Florida
Today is Sunday, August 24, the 236th day of 2025. It remains 129 days a year.
Today in history:
On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew broke Florida; The storm resulted in 65 deaths and caused more than $ 26 billion in damage across Florida, Louisiana and Bahamas.
Also on this date:
In 1814, during the War of 1812, the British forces invaded Washington, DC, set fire to the Capitol still under construction and the White House, as well as other public buildings.
In 1912, the congress adopted a measure creating the territory of Alaska.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart embarked on a 7 -hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, making her the first woman to fly solo, constantly, from one ocean to another.
In 1949, the North Atlantic Treaty entered into force.
In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act prohibited the Communist Party in the United States.
In 1981, Mark David Chapman was sentenced to New York to life for life for having murdered John Lennon.
In 1989, the baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti (Juh-Mah’-tee) prohibited Pete Rose from the game for having bet on his own team, the Reds of Cincinnati.
In 1991, in response to an attempted coup d’etat of the hard communist leaders, trying to reaffirm control of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian parliamentarians voted to approve a declaration of independence for the State of Ukraine.
In 2006, the international astronomical union said that Pluto was no longer a planet in its own right, downgrades it to the status of “dwarf planet”.
In 2012, a Norwegian court said that Anders Behring Breivik was guilty of terrorism and premeditated murder for twin attacks on July 22, 2011, who killed 77 people; He was sentenced to a sentence of 21 years in prison which can be extended as long as he is considered dangerous for society.
In 2018, the Senator of Arizona John McCain announced that he had interrupted medical treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer; McCain died the next day.
In 2019, Aurora’s police, Colorado, responding to a suspicious person report, used a strangulation to master Elijah McClain, a 23 -year -old black man; He suffered a cardiac arrest on the hospital path and was then declared dead from the brain and withdrew support for life.
In 2020, the Republicans officially appointed President Donald Trump for a second term on the day of opening an agreement on a scale; During a visit to the conventional city of Charlotte, in North Carolina, Trump told the delegates that “the only way to remove this election is if it is a rigged election.”
Today’s birthdays:
- The composer-musician Mason Williams is 87 years old.
- The R&B singer Marshall Thompson (the Chi-Lites) is 83 years old.
- The co-founder of WWE, Vince McMahon, is 80 years old.
- The author Paulo Coelho is 78 years old.
- Actor Anne Archer is 78 years old.
- The author Alexander McCall Smith is 77 years old.
- Composer Jean-Michel Jarre is 77 years old.
- The author Orson Scott Card is 74 years old.
- The poet Linton Kwesi Johnson is 73 years old.
- Actor Kevin Dunn is 70 years old.
- Former Governor and political commentator of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee, is 70 years old.
- The actor-writer Stephen Fry is 68.
- Actor Steve Guttenberg is 67 years old.
- Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. is 65 years old.
- Actor Jared Harris is 64 years old.
- Talk-show Craig Kilborn is 63 years old.
- Actor Marlee Matlin is 60 years old.
- The temple of basketball renown Reggie Miller is 60 years old.
- Director Ava Duvernay is 53 years old.
- The actor-comedian Dave Chappelle is 52 years old.
- Actor James d’Arcy is 51 years old.
- Actor Carmine Giovinazzo (Jee-Oh-Vihn-Ah’-Zoh) is 52 years old.
- The actor Alex O’Loughlin is 49 years old.
- The author John Green is 48 years old.
- Actor Chad Michael Murray is 44 years old.
- Actor Rupert Grint is 37.
- Basketball player Kelsey Plum is 31 years old.
