August 24, or 小hips Birthday and Pluto
Zodiac Sign Virgo
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Virgo, August 24. Charming and sociable personalities, born on August 24, are gifted with impeccable manners, great tact and diplomacy.
Born 24 August strive to solve the mysteries that interest them. These people are attracted to all the dark, unknown or unexplored branches of human knowledge.
They can do business, wash floors, raise children, but the main thing for them is to replenish their own scientific baggage, which can only be envied.
They are completely absorbed by the endless stream of information and details, allowing them to find the meaning of life and enrich their world.
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Virgo men born on August 24:
- boast the following qualities:
- modest,
- devotee,
- analyst,
- rational,
- kind.
- The Virgo man is calm and reasonable.
- Demonstration, posturing and boasting are alien to him.
- He watches for a long time, looks closely and carefully thinks out his every step.
- In a relationship, such a man will rarely decide to take the initiative, but there is no doubt about his loyalty and reliability.
Virgo women born on August 24:
- endowed with the following features:
- sensitive,
- independent,
- kind.
- The Virgo woman is the ideal of fidelity, devotion and constancy.
- At the first meeting, she seems cold, unapproachable and indifferent.
- The reasons for this behavior lie in the fact that the Virgo woman must carefully weigh all the risks and analyze the situation before showing her emotions.
Holidays
小hips Birthday
August 24, 1853 George Cram - chef at the restaurant at the Moon's Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs (New York) for the first time cooked potato chips. One visitor refused from gave him fried potatoes, saying that the bars were cut too thickly. And then Kram cut potatoes with slices of paper thickness and, sprinkling with salt, fried them to a crunch in boiling oil.
To the surprise of the chef, the client was delighted with the new dish. Soon the "Saratoga Chips" became popular and a specialty in the restaurant.
In 1860, Krum opened his own restaurant, on the tables of which there was always a basket with potato chips.
In 1890, a trader from the city of Cleveland, William Teppenden began to sell chips from a van on the street. They were served to customers in a paper bag decorated with an advertisement of the Teppenden establishment.
In 1926, Laura Scudder proposed packing the chips in waxed paper. As a result, the problems associated with storage and transportation over long distances have disappeared. In addition, the sellers already had less work: the buyers themselves could take the bags from the store rack.
In the late 1950s, chips became the most frequently advertised product on American TV channels.
In 1970, fried potatoes were first sold for more than $ 1 billion. Today, only in America, there are more than $ 6 billion worth of chips sold annually.
Chips have become one of the most common and favorite foods. There were chips from carrots, beets, radishes, gourmets appreciated chips from apples, pears and exotic fruits.
In 2006, Pluto ceased to be considered a planet of the solar system and moved into the category of dwarf planets.
On March 13, 2007, the New Mexico State Legislature, where Clyde Tombo ( Pluto discoverer) lived for a long time, unanimously decided that in his honor, Pluto would always be considered a planet in the New Mexican sky.
On February 26, 2009, a similar decree was passed by the Illinois State Senate, where the discoverer of Pluto was born. The Senate resolution states that Pluto was "unfairly downgraded to a dwarf planet."
American Dialectical Society has recognized the verb “to pluto” with the new word of 2006. It means “lowering the rank or values of someone or something, as happened with the now former planet Pluto”.
79 - the eruption of Vesuvius occurred. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae are buried under volcanic ash.
1542 - Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana opened the mouth of the Amazon river, calling it that way because his expedition was attacked by Indian warrior women.
1660 - French entrepreneurs Pierre-Esprit Radisson and M茅dard Chouart Sieur des Groseilliers decided to establish ''Hudson Bay Company'', the oldest trading corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world.
1770 - 17-year-old English poet Thomas Chatterton, desperate to achieve recognition, killed himself with a poison, after which his works immediately became popular.
1814 - the British took Washington and burned the White House in retaliation for the burning of public buildings in York (now Toronto) by the Americans.
1869 - first waffle iron was patented.
1899 - born Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer and poet ("Aleph", "Creator", "Draft", "Secret Writing"), "dad" of postmodernism in literature.
1906 - US President Theodore Roosevelt issued a decree obliging all state official documents to be published only after their spelling check.
1937 - Soviet pilot Konstantin Kaitanov was the first in the world to make a parachute jump from the stratosphere - from a height of 11,037 meters.
1938 - the term "soap opera" appeared. A columnist for the American newspaper ''Christian Century'' wrote about the TV series in the janre of ''family romance melodrama'' that came into fashion in the late 30s: "These fifteen minute tragedies ... I call soap opera ..." because without the help of soap I would not shed a single tear over her characters. "
1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian writer and poet, was born. Published a total of 16 books ("The Alchemist", "Eleven Minutes", "I sat down on the banks of the Rio Piedra and wept", "Veronica decides to die" ...).
1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre was born; French composer, author and director of grandiose light shows.
1949 - Treaty on the Creation of NATO entered into force.
1958 - Steve Guttenberg, American actor, producer, screenwriter and director was born. He became famous in the 1980s after a series of major roles in Hollywood films, including ''Cocoon'', the ''Police Academy'' and ''Short Circuit''.
1981 - over the Amur Region, the civilian ""An-24'' collided with a ''Tu-16'' bomber, killing 37 people. The only survivor is Larisa Savitskaya, who survived a fall from a height of 5 kilometers.
1988 - born Rupert Grint, British actor. Known for the role of Ron Weasley in the ''Harry Potter'' films.
1995 - ''Windows 95'' released.
2014 - died Richard Attenborough (b. 1923), English actor, film director and producer, Lord, winner of the ''Oscar''.
2017 - died Jay Thomas (b. 1948), American comedian actor, radio host.
Pluto
On March 13, 2007, the New Mexico State Legislature, where Clyde Tombo ( Pluto discoverer) lived for a long time, unanimously decided that in his honor, Pluto would always be considered a planet in the New Mexican sky.
On February 26, 2009, a similar decree was passed by the Illinois State Senate, where the discoverer of Pluto was born. The Senate resolution states that Pluto was "unfairly downgraded to a dwarf planet."
"To Pluto"
Also on August 24...
1542 - Spanish conquistador Francisco de Orellana opened the mouth of the Amazon river, calling it that way because his expedition was attacked by Indian warrior women.
1660 - French entrepreneurs Pierre-Esprit Radisson and M茅dard Chouart Sieur des Groseilliers decided to establish ''Hudson Bay Company'', the oldest trading corporation in North America and one of the oldest in the world.
1770 - 17-year-old English poet Thomas Chatterton, desperate to achieve recognition, killed himself with a poison, after which his works immediately became popular.
1814 - the British took Washington and burned the White House in retaliation for the burning of public buildings in York (now Toronto) by the Americans.
1869 - first waffle iron was patented.
1899 - born Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer and poet ("Aleph", "Creator", "Draft", "Secret Writing"), "dad" of postmodernism in literature.
1906 - US President Theodore Roosevelt issued a decree obliging all state official documents to be published only after their spelling check.
1937 - Soviet pilot Konstantin Kaitanov was the first in the world to make a parachute jump from the stratosphere - from a height of 11,037 meters.
1938 - the term "soap opera" appeared. A columnist for the American newspaper ''Christian Century'' wrote about the TV series in the janre of ''family romance melodrama'' that came into fashion in the late 30s: "These fifteen minute tragedies ... I call soap opera ..." because without the help of soap I would not shed a single tear over her characters. "
1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian writer and poet, was born. Published a total of 16 books ("The Alchemist", "Eleven Minutes", "I sat down on the banks of the Rio Piedra and wept", "Veronica decides to die" ...).
1948 - Jean-Michel Jarre was born; French composer, author and director of grandiose light shows.
1949 - Treaty on the Creation of NATO entered into force.
1958 - Steve Guttenberg, American actor, producer, screenwriter and director was born. He became famous in the 1980s after a series of major roles in Hollywood films, including ''Cocoon'', the ''Police Academy'' and ''Short Circuit''.
1981 - over the Amur Region, the civilian ""An-24'' collided with a ''Tu-16'' bomber, killing 37 people. The only survivor is Larisa Savitskaya, who survived a fall from a height of 5 kilometers.
1988 - born Rupert Grint, British actor. Known for the role of Ron Weasley in the ''Harry Potter'' films.
1995 - ''Windows 95'' released.
2014 - died Richard Attenborough (b. 1923), English actor, film director and producer, Lord, winner of the ''Oscar''.
2017 - died Jay Thomas (b. 1948), American comedian actor, radio host.
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