On This Day
August 24th

79 Pompeii is buried. 1814 British sack Washington, DC. 1869 the Waffle Iron is invented. 1909 Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. 1989 Voyager II flies past Neptune.

Birthdays

1816 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful trans-Atlantic cables 1886 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed the Liberty ships