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Events on August 24

• 1572 During the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, between 2,000 and 10,000 Huguenots are murdered in Paris.
• 1617 The Fruitbearing Society, the oldest German language society, is founded in Weimar.
• 1853 Potato chips are prepared for the first time.
• 1866 The last Federal Convention of the German Confederation in Augsburg leads to its self-dissolution.
• 1939 Germany and the Soviet Union agree in Moscow on a non-aggression pact, the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Because of the longer negotiations, the treaty dated 23 August is not signed until after midnight, with the signatures of Foreign Ministers Molotov and von Ribbentrop.
• 1953 The zebra crossing is included in the West German road traffic regulations.
• 1961 Eleven days after the border closure to West Berlin, East German citizen Günter Litfin dies in an attempted escape. He is the first person to be shot dead at the Berlin Wall.
• 1963 In the Federal Republic of Germany, the first matchday of the Football Bundesliga takes place, with 16 clubs taking part. ZDF broadcasts Das aktuelle Sportstudio for the first time.
• 1992 On the third day of the xenophobic unrest in Rostock-Lichtenhagen, an arson attack is carried out on a house inhabited by Vietnamese people.
• 1995 Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system for personal computers is released in the USA.
• 2006 At the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, the decision is made to deny Pluto planetary status and classify it in the newly redefined class of dwarf planets.
• 2011 Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple.

Born on August 24

• 1890 Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaiian swimmer, surfer and actor
• 1900 Josef Felder, German politician
• 1911 Friedrich Luft, German journalist and theater critic
• 1941 Jürgen Eschert, German canoeist, Olympic champion
• 1942 Gerhard Garbers, German actor
• 1960 Franz Viehböck, first Austrian Austronaut
• 1961 Kirsten Heisig, German lawyer and author
• 1970 Michael Roth, German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1981 Chad Michael Murray, American actor
• 1991 Mark Uth, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „24. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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