CHICKEN BUCKETS: TODAY IN HISTORY

Saturday, August 24, 2013

AP Highlight in History:
On Aug. 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, causing record damage; 55 deaths in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas were blamed on the storm.

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On this date in:
79	Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash. An estimated 20,000 people died.
1572	The slaughter of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics began in Paris.
1814	British forces invaded Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol and the White House.
1857	The New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. failed, sparking the Panic of 1857.
1932	Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours.
1949	The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.
1954	The Communist Control Act went into effect, virtually outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.
1968	France became the world's fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.
1970	A bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing a researcher.
1981	Mark David Chapman was sentenced in New York to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of rock musician John Lennon.
1989	Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti banned Pete Rose from the game for gambling.
2006	The International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a planet, demoting it to the status of a "dwarf planet."
2007	A judge in Inverness, Fla., sentenced John Evander Couey to death for kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, raping her and burying her alive.
2007	James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced to three life terms for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in Mississippi.
2007	The NFL suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick for his involvement in dogfighting.
2011	Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple Inc.