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Events

• 1743 (283 years ago) The War of the Hats: The Swedish army surrenders to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.
• 1941 (85 years ago) The Holocaust: Adolf Hitler orders the cessation of Nazi Germany's systematic T4 euthanasia program of the mentally ill and the handicapped due to protests, although killings continue for the remainder of the war.
• 1950 (76 years ago) Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.
• 1954 (72 years ago) Vice president João Café Filho takes office as president of Brazil, following the suicide of Getúlio Vargas.
• 1989 (37 years ago) Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
• 2016 (10 years ago) An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as Rome and Florence. Around 300 people are killed.
• 2017 (9 years ago) The National Space Agency of Taiwan successfully launches the observation satellite Formosat-5 into space.

Births

• 1899 (127 years ago) Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator (died 1986)
• 1902 (124 years ago) Fernand Braudel, French historian and academic (died 1985)
• 1947 (79 years ago) Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author and songwriter
• 1948 (78 years ago) Sauli Niinistö, Finnish captain and politician, 12th President of Finland
• 1948 (78 years ago) Jean Michel Jarre, French pianist, composer, and producer
• 1965 (61 years ago) Marlee Matlin, American actress and producer
• 1988 (38 years ago) Rupert Grint, English actor
• 1997 (29 years ago) Alan Walker, British-Norwegian DJ and record producer

Deaths

• 1617 (409 years ago) Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (born 1586)
• 1832 (194 years ago) Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (born 1796)
• 1888 (138 years ago) Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (born 1822)
• 1943 (83 years ago) Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (born 1909)
• 1954 (72 years ago) Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (born 1882)
• 2014 (12 years ago) Richard Attenborough, English actor, director, producer, and politician (born 1923)
• 2016 (10 years ago) Walter Scheel, German politician, 4th President of Germany (born 1919)
• 2021 (5 years ago) Charlie Watts, English musician (born 1941)

All 390 events, births and deaths of August 24