WHAT HAPPENED ON 24. AUGUST
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The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri. (24. August 1816)

Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto, Portugal. (24. August 1820)

The Treaty of Córdoba is signed in Córdoba, now in Veracruz, Mexico, concluding the Mexican War of Independence from Spain. (24. August 1821)

The Panic of 1857 begins, setting off one of the most severe economic crises in United States history. (24. August 1857)

The Wolseley Expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion. (24. August 1870)

Captain Matthew Webb became first person to swim the English Channel (24. August 1875)

Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera. (24. August 1891)

Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference. (24. August 1898)

Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. (24. August 1909)

Alaska becomes a United States territory. (24. August 1912)

World War I: German troops capture Namur. (24. August 1914)

Second day of two-day Hebron massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attacks on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, result in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city. (24. August 1929)

France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality/no attack treaty. (24. August 1931)

Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government. (24. August 1931)

Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey). (24. August 1932)

The Crescent Limited train derails in Washington, D.C., after the bridge it is crossing is washed out by the 1933 Chesapeake–Potomac hurricane. (24. August 1933)

The Australian Antarctic Territory is created. (24. August 1936)

In the Spanish Civil War, the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement. (24. August 1937)

In the Spanish Civil War, Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón. (24. August 1937)

Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war. (24. August 1941)