{"id":23046,"date":"2020-08-24T04:50:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T23:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23046"},"modified":"2020-08-21T17:00:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T11:30:34","slug":"history-of-24-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-24-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 24 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1990 &#8211; Iraqi troops surrounded\nforeign missions in Kuwait.<\/li><li>1991 &#8211; Russian President Mikhail\nGorbachev resigned as the head of the Communist Party.<\/li><li>1992 &#8211; China and South Korea\nestablished diplomatic relations.<\/li><li>1995 &#8211; Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Windows\n95&#8221; went on sale.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211;&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;officials\ncited a soil sample as part of the evidence that a Sudan plant was producing\nprecursors to the VX nerve gas. And, therefore made it a target\nfor&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;missiles on August 20, 1998.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; A donation of 24 beads was\nmade, from three parties, to the Indian Museum of North America at the Crazy\nHorse Memorial. The beads are said to be those that were used in 1626 to buy\nManhattan from the Indians.<\/li><li>2001 &#8211; In McAllen,&nbsp;TX,\nBridgestone\/Firestone agreed to settle out of court and pay a reported $7.5\nmillion to a family in a rollover accident in their Ford Explorer.<\/li><li>2001 &#8211; The remains of nine American\nservicemen killed in the Korean War were returned to the U.S. The bodies were\nfound about 60 miles north of Pyongyang. It was estimated that it would be a\nyear before the identies of the soldiers would be known.<\/li><li>2001 &#8211;&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;District Judge\nColleen Kollar-Kotelly was randomly picked to take over the Microsoft monopoly\ncase. The judge was to decide how Microsoft should be punished for illegally\ntrying to squelch its competitors.<\/li><li>2001 &#8211; NASA announced that operation\nof the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite would end by September 30th due to\nbudget restrictions. Though the satellite is best known for monitoring a hole\nin the ozone layer over Antarctica, it was designed to provide information\nabout the upper atmosphere by measuring its winds, temperatures, chemistry and\nenergy received from the sun.<\/li><li>2006 &#8211; The planet Pluto was\nreclassified as a &#8220;dwarf planet&#8221; by the International Astronomical\nUnion (IAU). Pluto&#8217;s status was changed due to the IAU&#8217;s new rules for an object\nqualifying as a planet. Pluto met two of the three rules because it orbits the\nsun and is large enough to assume a nearly round shape. However, since Pluto\nhas an oblong orbit and overlaps the orbit of Neptune it disqualified Pluto as\na planet. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2010\u00a0\u2013 In\u00a0San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are\u00a0killed\u00a0by\u00a0Los Zetas\u00a0and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities.<\/li><li>2010 \u2013\u00a0Henan Airlines Flight 8387\u00a0crashes at\u00a0Yichun Lindu Airport\u00a0in\u00a0Yichun,\u00a0Heilongjiang,\u00a0China, killing 44 out of the 96 people on board.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_24#cite_note-10\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>2016\u00a0\u2013 An\u00a0earthquake strikes Central Italy\u00a0with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as\u00a0Rome\u00a0and\u00a0Florence.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating Birthday Today <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Chad Michael Murray, American model and actor<\/li><li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Bosingwa, Portuguese footballer<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Kim K\u00e4llstr\u00f6m, Swedish footballer<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Glen Atle Larsen, Norwegian footballer<\/li><li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Brett Gardner, American baseball player<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0George Perris, Greek-French singer-songwriter and pianist<\/li><li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Erin Molan, Australian journalist and sportscaster<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player<\/li><li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nick Adenhart, American baseball player (d. 2009)<\/li><li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Joseph Akpala, Nigerian footballer<\/li><li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Arian Foster, American football player<\/li><li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Fabiano Santacroce, Italian footballer<\/li><li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0An\u017ee Kopitar, Slovenian ice hockey player<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Daichi Miura, Japanese singer-songwriter, dancer, and choreographer<\/li><li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rupert Grint, English actor<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Manu Ma&#8217;u, New Zealand rugby league player<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Joel Thompson, Australian rugby league player<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Maya Yoshida, Japanese footballer<\/li><li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Reynaldo, Brazilian footballer<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Roc\u00edo Igarz\u00e1bal, Argentinian actress and singer<\/li><li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Juan Pedro Lanzani, Argentinian actor and singer<\/li><li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Wang Zhen, Chinese race walker<\/li><li>1992\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jemerson, Brazilian footballer<\/li><li>1993\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Allen Robinson, American football player<\/li><li>1995\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Lady Amelia Windsor, member of the British royal family<\/li><li>1996\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Camila Giangreco Campiz, Paraguayan tennis player<\/li><li>2001\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mildred Maldonado, Mexican rhythmic gymnast<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_24#cite_note-21\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1990 &#8211; Iraqi troops surrounded foreign missions in Kuwait. 1991 &#8211; Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as the head of the Communist Party. 1992 &#8211; China and South Korea established diplomatic relations. 1995 &#8211; Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Windows 95&#8221; went on sale. 1998 &#8211;&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;officials cited a soil sample as part of the evidence that a Sudan plant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1364,1325],"class_list":{"0":"post-23046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-24-august","10":"tag-today-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5ZI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23047,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23046\/revisions\/23047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}