What happend on 24th August

23.08
25.08
2007

Mount Vesuvius erupts. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash.

2005

Peruvian airliner TANS's Flight 204 crashes in Pucallpa, killing at least 60 people.

2004

Two airliners in Russia, carrying a total of 89 passengers, crash within minutes of each other after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow, leaving no survivors. Authorities suspect suicide attacks by rebels from the breakaway republic of Chechnya to be the cause of the crashes.

2003

US Spacecraft Voyager 2 is 71 astronomical units distant from Earth and escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.3 AU per year (ca. 15 km/s). It will be approximately 40,000 years before Voyager 2 approaches another planetary system.

2001

Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from New York) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.

1998

The Netherlands is selected as the site for the trial of the two Libyan suspects of the 1988 PanAm bombing.

1995

Windows 95 is released.

1994

Initial accord between Israel and the PLO about partial self-rule of the Palestinians on the West Bank.

1992

Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida.

1992

Diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and South Korea.