Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 24

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 * 410 – Rome was sacked for the first time in approximately 800 years by the Visigoths under Alaric I.
 * 1456 – The oldest known version of the Gutenberg Bible, the first major book produced on a printing press, was completed.
 * 1781 – American Revolutionary War: Near present-day Aurora, Indiana, American Indians led by Joseph Brant killed or captured all members of a Pennsylvania militia.
 * 1814 – War of 1812: British forces invaded Washington, D.C., setting fire to various U.S. government buildings, including the White House (damage depicted).
 * 1857 – The New York City branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. collapsed following widespread embezzlement, leading to a severe recession that caused about 5,000 businesses to fail.
 * 1889 – The predominantly Māori New Zealand Native football team (pictured) played the last match of their 107-game tour, the longest in rugby union history.
 * 1914 – World War I: The Battle of Cer ended with the first Allied victory of the war.
 * 1921 – The Royal Navy's R.38, the world's largest airship at the time, was destroyed by a structural failure over Hull, killing 44 of the 49 crew aboard.
 * 1941 – Adolf Hitler ordered the suspension of the T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and disabled, although killings continued in secret for the remainder of World War II.
 * 1942 – World War II: At the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, bombers from the U.S. aircraft carrier Saratoga sank the Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō near Santa Isabel Island, contributing to an Allied victory.
 * 1966 – Cultural Revolution: Red Guards vandalised the Jokhang, the holiest Buddhist temple in Tibet.
 * 1992 – Hurricane Andrew, the third-most intense Category 5 cyclone to impact the United States in the 20th century, made landfall in southern Florida.
 * 2004 – Eighty-nine people died after suicide bombers attacked two airliners flying out of Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport.
 * Born/died: | William Wilberforce |b|1759|Antonio Stoppani |b|1824| Agnes Marshall |b|1852| Zonia Baber |b|1862| Harry Hooper |b|1887| Valentine Baker |b|1888| Jean-Michel Jarre |b|1948| Anna Lee Fisher |b|1949| Louis Prima |d|1978| Anže Kopitar |b|1987Rupert Grint |b|1988|