August 24 1482 The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army.*
August 24 1516 The Ottoman Empire under Selim I defeats the Mamluk Sultanate and captures present-day Syria at the Battle of Marj Dabiq*
August 24 1743 The Swedish army surrenders to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.*
August 24 1781 A small force of Pennsylvania militia is ambushed and overwhelmed by an American Indian group, which forces George Rogers Clark to abandon his attempt to attack Detroit.*
August 24 1789 The first naval battle of the Svensksund began in the Gulf of Finland.*
August 24 1812 Peninsular War: A coalition of Spanish, British, and Portuguese forces succeed in lifting the two-and-a-half-year-long Siege of Cádiz.*
August 24 1814 British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.*
August 24 1914 World War I: German troops capture Namur.*
August 24 1914 World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.*
August 24 1937 Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.*
August 24 1937 Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.*
August 24 1942 World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is* sunk, with the loss of seven officers and 113 crewmen. The US carrier USS Enterprise is heavily damaged.*
August 24 1944 World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.*
August 24 1949 The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO goes into effect.*
August 24 1950 Edith Sampson becomes the first black U.S. delegate to the United Nations.*
Source * -Wikipedia *1-Onthisday.com
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