August 24

Today in History
• 1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed
• 1572 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris
• 1635 - The Great Colonial Hurricane affected the Virginia Colony at Jamestown
• 1682 - Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
• 1816 - The Treaty of St. Louis is signed by the USA and the Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi
• 1869 - American inventor Cornelius Swarthout patents stove-top waffle iron
• 1891 - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
• 1893 - Tornado destroys coast of Savannah and Charleston, about 1000 die


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Melaka Governor's Birthday
• National Burger Day
• National Flag Day in Liberia
• Pluto Demoted Day
• St Bartholomew History
• Ukraine Independence Day
• Vesuvius Day
• William Wilberforce Day

Birthdays
• 1198 - King Alexander II of Scotland
• 1358 - John I of Castile, King of Castile and León (1379-90)
• 1759 - William Wilberforce, philanthropist, leader of the movement to end the slave trade
• 1772 - William I Frederick, King of the Netherlands (1815-40)
• 1816 - Daniel Gooch, English engineer, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
• 1865 - Ferdinand I VAM, King of Romania (1914-27)
• 1886 - William Francis Gibbs, American naval architect, designed Liberty ships
• 1905 - Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (1971-85)