24 August in history.

1932

Non-stop across America. Amelia Earhart flew non-stop from Los Angeles to New Jersey, the first woman to cross the United States without landing.

Wikipedia: Amelia Earhart

Photo: Underwood & Underwood (active 1880 – c. 1950) [1] / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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   1950

   Edith Sampson at the UN

   Lawyer Edith Sampson became the first Black American delegate to the United Nations.

   Wikipedia: Edith S. Sampson

   Photo: Kidfly182 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

2. 

   1995

   Windows 95

   Microsoft released Windows 95, which brought the Start button and taskbar.

   Wikipedia: Windows 95

   Photo: Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

3. 

   2006

   Pluto becomes a dwarf planet

   Astronomers voted on a new definition of a planet. Pluto became a "dwarf planet".

   Wikipedia: IAU definition of planetWikipedia: Pluto

   Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/A… / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

4. 

   2016

   A planet next door

   Astronomers announced Proxima b, a planet circling the nearest star to the Sun.

   Wikipedia: Proxima Centauri b

   Photo: ESO/M. Kornmesser / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)

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