HISTORY TODAY : AUGUST 24

HISTORY TODAY : AUGUST 24 

Selected purely from my personal perspective 

Mikhail Gorbachev – leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
Author:  Vladimir Vyatkin 
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Attribution: 
RIA Novosti archive, image #850809 / Vladimir Vyatkin / CC-BY-SA 3.0
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EVENTS 

1349 – Six thousand Jews are killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.

American aviator/pilot Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) standing by her Lockheed Electra dressed in overalls, with Fred Noonan getting into the plane in the background. Parnamerim airfield, Natal, Brazil.

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

1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1991 – Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union

2023 – Japan officially begins discharging treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking international concerns and condemnation

BIRTHS 

1908 – Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (died 1931). Indian Freedom Fighter, who sacrificed his for the sake of the country 

The Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho.

Source: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paulo_Coelho_30102007.jpg

Author:  Marcello Casal Jr./ABr

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1947 – Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author and songwriter

Grateful thanks to WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA and Image credit is given under each image. My grateful thanks to WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, FLICKR, RIA Novosti archive and authors of the images: 

 Vladimir Vyatkin  and Marcello Casal Jr./ABr