Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/August 24

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• August 24:
• 1814 - British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
• 1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
• 1912 - Alaska becomes a United States territory.
• 1929 - Turkey and Persia sign a friendship treaty.
• 1990 - A judge rules that Judas Priest are not responsible for the deaths of two youths who committed suicide after listening to the band's music.
• 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.