A bit of August 24th history…
79 - Mt Vesuvius erupts; buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die)
410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the 1st time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire
1456 - Printing of the Gutenberg Bible is completed
1572 - St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of 70,000 Protestants by Roman Catholics beginning in Paris and spreading to French provinces
1853 - 1st potato chips prepared by chef Crum in NY
1891 - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1995 - Microsoft debuts Windows 95
2006 - Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet
2018 - Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler sends cease-and-desist letter to President Trump demanding he stop using the bands songs at rallies
A bit of August 24th history… 79 - Mt Vesuvius erupts;...