On this day (August 24)

76 - Mount Vesuvius destroying Pompeii and Herculaneum.

410 - Alaric, chief of the Visigoths, led an army into Rome, an event that symbolizes the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

1949 - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) entered into force, following the signing of its treaty four months earlier. Happy birthday, I suppose.

The rest is boring shit