Today in History: August 24, Hurricane Andrew strikes Florida
In the modern day is Sunday Aug the th day of There are days left in the year Currently in history On August Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida the storm resulted in deaths and caused more than billion in damage across Florida Louisiana and the Bahamas Also on this date In during the War of British forces invaded Washington D C setting fire to the still-under-construction Capitol and the White House as well as other residents buildings Related Articles Judge blocks Trump from cutting funding from cities and counties including Denver over sanctuary policies In the current era in History August Italian immigrants put to death in Boston Colorado judge rejects plea agreement for funeral director who acknowledged abusing corpses National Guard troops on DC streets for Trump s crackdown will start carrying guns Powell signals Fed may cut rates soon even as inflation risks remain In Congress passed a measure creating the Alaska Territory In Amelia Earhart embarked on a -hour flight from Los Angeles to Newark New Jersey making her the first woman to fly solo non-stop from coast to coast In the North Atlantic Treaty came into force In President Dwight D Eisenhower signed the Communist Control Act outlawing the Communist Party in the United States In Mark David Chapman was sentenced in New York to years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon In Baseball Commissioner A Bartlett Giamatti juh-MAH -tee banned Pete Rose from the event for betting on his own squad the Cincinnati Reds In in response to a coup attempt by hardline Communist leaders attempting to reassert control over the Soviet Union Ukrainian parliamentarians voted to approve a Declaration of Independence for the state of Ukraine In the International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a full-fledged planet demoting it to the status of a dwarf planet In a Norwegian court detected Anders Behring Breivik guilty of terrorism and premeditated murder for twin attacks on July that killed people he received a -year prison sentence that can be extended as long as he is considered dangerous to society In the family of Arizona Sen John McCain broadcasted that he had discontinued clinical medicine for an aggressive form of brain cancer McCain died the following day In police in Aurora Colorado responding to a overview of a suspicious person used a chokehold to subdue Elijah McClain a -year-old Black man he suffered cardiac arrest on the way to the hospital and was later declared brain dead and taken off life sponsorship In Republicans formally nominated President Donald Trump for a second term on the opening day of a scaled-down convention during a visit to the convention city of Charlotte North Carolina Trump explained delegates that the only way they can take this electoral process away from us is if this is a rigged polling In contemporary times s Birthdays Composer-musician Mason Williams is R B singer Marshall Thompson The Chi-Lites is WWE co-founder Vince McMahon is Author Paulo Coelho is Actor Anne Archer is Author Alexander McCall Smith is Composer Jean-Michel Jarre is Author Orson Scott Card is Poet Linton Kwesi Johnson is Actor Kevin Dunn is Former Arkansas governor and political commentator Mike Huckabee is Actor-writer Stephen Fry is Actor Steve Guttenberg is Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr is Actor Jared Harris is Talk show host Craig Kilborn is Actor Marlee Matlin is Basketball Hall of Famer Reggie Miller is Film director Ava DuVernay is Actor-comedian Dave Chappelle is Actor James D Arcy is Actor Carmine Giovinazzo jee-oh-vihn-AH -zoh is Actor Alex O Loughlin is Author John Green is Actor Chad Michael Murray is Actor Rupert Grint is Basketball athlete Kelsey Plum is
