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TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2010

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Today is Tuesday, August 24, the 236th day of 2010. There are 129 days left in the year.

79 _ Mt. Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum

410 _ Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire

1814 _ British sack Washington, D.C., White House burned

1891 _ Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera

1949 _ North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established

1954 _ Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism

1968 _ France became world's fifth thermonuclear power

1981 _ Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for Lennon's murder

1991 _ Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party

1991 _ Ukraine declares independence from the USSR