WHAT HAPPENED ON 24. AUGUST
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World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier USS Enterprise heavily damaged. (24. August 1942)

World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris. (24. August 1944)

The treaty creating NATO goes into effect. (24. August 1949)

Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations. (24. August 1950)

The Communist Control Act goes into effect. The American Communist Party is outlawed. (24. August 1954)

Getúlio Dornelles Vargas, president of Brazil, commits suicide and is succeeded by João Café Filho. (24. August 1954)

Buddhist crisis: As a result of the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids, the US State Department cables the United States Embassy, Saigon to encourage Army of the Republic of Vietnam generals to launch a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem if he did not remove his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. (24. August 1963)

Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupts trading at the NYSE by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them. (24. August 1967)

Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon. (24. August 1981)

Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government. (24. August 1989)

Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti. (24. August 1989)

Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. (24. August 1991)

Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union. (24. August 1991)

Hurricane Andrew makes landfall just south of Miami as a Category 5 hurricane. (24. August 1992)

Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank. (24. August 1994)

First radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation tested in the United Kingdom. (24. August 1998)

Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores. (24. August 2001)

Eighty-nine passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions are caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya. (24. August 2004)

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefines the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet. (24. August 2006)

In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 72 illegal immigrants are killed by Los Zetas and eventually found dead by Mexican authorities. (24. August 2010)