GMT 8/24/2016

This Day In History:

1814 – British troops invade Washington, D.C. and during the Burning of Washington the White House, the Capitol and many other buildings are set ablaze.

1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is signed in St. Louis, Missouri.

1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.

1932 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).

1949 – The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.

1981 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison for murdering John Lennon.

1989 – Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.

1995 – Microsoft Windows 95 was released to the public in North America.