History for August 24 - On-This-Day.com
Joshua Lionel Cowen 1880, Jose Luis Borges 1899, Yasser Arafat 1929
Anne Archer 1947 - Actress, Steve Guttenberg 1958 - Actor, Cal Ripken, Jr. 1960 - Baseball player
0079 - Mount Vesuvius erupted killing approximately 20,000 people. The cities of Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum were buried in volcanic ash.
1954 - The Communist Party was virtually outlawed in the U.S. when the Communist Control Act went into effect.
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