Writing to Speed on August 24, 1855, Lincoln made the latter point clear.

Founded August 24, 1690 by Job Charnock of the East India Company, and commonly called `` The City of Palaces '', it seemed a vast and elegant place to Ann Hasseltine Judson.

After the Civil War, Doubleday mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24, 1865, reverted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and became the colonel of the 35th U. S. Infantry in September 1867.

Allies within the capital opened the gates for him on August 24, and for three days his troops sacked the city.

Sack of Rome ( 410 ) | The Sack of Rome by the Visigoths on 24 August 410 by Joseph-Noël Sylvestre | J-N Sylvestre ( 1890 )

However, this may be — for our information at this point of the story is meagre — on August 24 410, Alaric and his Visigoths burst in by the Porta Salaria on the northeast of the city.

Alexander II ( Mediaeval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim ) ( 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249 ) was King of Scots from

** August 24 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

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" ( Saturday Review / World, August 24, 1974 )

Fairbanks receives an average 21 hours of daylight between May 10 and August 2 each summer, and an average of less than four hours of daylight between November 18 and January 24 each winter.

Arthur Robert Jensen ( born August 24, 1923 ) is a Professor Emeritus of educational psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Jensen was born August 24, 1923, in San Diego, California, the son of Linda Mary ( née Schachtmayer ) and Arthur Alfred Jensen, who operated and owned a lumber and building materials company.

Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

Showalter's arrival produced, or coincided with, a turnaround ; the Birds went 34 – 24 in August, September and October.

" In an August 24, 1978, Rolling Stone interview, Bruce Springsteen told Dave Marsh, " I play Buddy Holly every night before I go on ; that keeps me honest.

On August 24, 2010, a statue of Selig, commissioned by Brewers owner Mark Attanasio and designed by artist Brian Maughan, was unveiled outside Miller Park in Milwaukee.

In addition to acting and occasionally directing, Campbell has become a writer, starting with an autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor published on August 24, 2002.

The Bronze Star Medal was established by Executive Order 9419, 4 February 1944 ( superseded by Executive Order 11046, 24 August 1962, as amended by Executive Order 13286, 28 February 2003 ).

The Executive Order was amended by President John F. Kennedy, per Executive Order 11046 dated 24 August 1962, to expand the authorization to include those serving with friendly forces.

After it was shown that at least one such body was larger than Pluto, on August 24, 2006 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) reclassified Pluto, grouping it with two similarly sized " dwarf planets " rather than with the eight " classical planets ".

It launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 29 July 1985, and landed just under eight days later on 6 August.

Challenger landed at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on 6 August 1985, at 12: 45: 26 pm PDT.

The orbiter arrived back at Kennedy Space Center on 11 August 1985.

* Confessions of a Contra: How the CIA Masterminds the Nicaraguan Insurgency by The New Republic, 5 August 1985

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

This early post, on August 7, 1985, describes the awards as being, " given posthumously to people who have made the supreme sacrifice to keep their genes out of our pool.

Opening on August 23, 1985, in 235 North American theaters, the film grossed $ 509, 502 USD ($ 2, 168 per screen ) in its opening weekend, on its way to a lackluster $ 4, 116, 395 total gross.

Lineker scored three hat-tricks for Everton ; at home to Birmingham City in a 4 – 1 league win on 31 August 1985, at home to Manchester City in a 4 – 0 home win on 11 February 1986, and then in the penultimate league game of the season on 3 May 1986, when they kept their title hopes alive with a 6 – 1 home win over Southampton.

Janusz Andrzej Zajdel ( 15 August 1938 in Warsaw – 19 July 1985 in Warsaw ) was a prominent Polish science fiction author, second in popularity in Poland after Stanisław Lem.

The V705 was completed in August 1985 and taken to the US where it rolled on the roads around Santa Barbara and got positive reactions.

A bloodless coup in August 1985 had brought Major General Ibrahim Babangida to power in Nigeria, and Rawlings took advantage of the change of administration to pay an official visit.

The development of OS / 2 began when IBM and Microsoft signed the " Joint Development Agreement " in August 1985.

National Geographic magazine introduced the American cultured pearl as a commercial product in their August 1985 issue.

Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 ( with the current line up solidifying in 1985 ), the band's four members — Trey Anastasio ( guitars, lead vocals ), Mike Gordon ( bass, vocals ), Jon Fishman ( drums, percussion, vocals ), and Page McConnell ( keyboards, vocals )— performed together for over 20 years before breaking up in August 2004.

Ruth Gordon Jones ( October 30, 1896 – August 28, 1985 ), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an American actress and writer.

In August 1985 the APC named military commander Maj. Gen. Joseph Saidu Momoh, Stevens ' own choice, as the party candidate to succeed Stevens.

SGI rapidly evolved its machines into workstations with its second product line — the IRIS 2000 series, first released in August, 1985.

Additional massacres by the Shining Path occurred, such as the one in Marcas on August 29, 1985.

* August 28 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate ( d. 1985 )

* August 9 – Philip Larkin, English poet ( d. 1985 )

Part 1, BYTE, August 1985, pp 120 – 136 ; Part 2, BYTE, September 1985, p 116.

* The 5ESS Switching System ( The AT & T Technical Journal, July – August 1985, Vol.

In August 1985, the service went off the air for the first time when workers striked in protest at the British government's decision to ban a documentary featuring an interview with Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin.

Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL ( 9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985 ) was an English poet and novelist.