Wikislippy:Selected anniversaries/August 24

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  • August 24:
  • 1814 - 1812: British troops invade Washington, D.C. and burn down the White House and several other buildings.
  • 1912 - Alaska becomes a United States territory.
  • 1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.
  • 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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