Important Events on August 24th In History:
1909: Construction on the Panama Canal begins.
1911: Manuel de Arriaga becomes the first President of Portugal.
1914: German troops capture Namur during World War 1.
1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop.
1936: The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
1944: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris during World War II.
1949: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) went into effect.
1954: The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
1981: Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.
1991: Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991: Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1995: Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.
1998: First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom.
2020: Erin O’Toole is elected as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
2021: Malia and Michael “MJ The Terrible” Johnson’s son Christopher Alexander Johnson was born.
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