^B{^#!16!24 August^N! Feast day of St Bartholomew, The Martyrs of Utica, and St Audenoeus or Ouen
^B{AD 79^B} Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in hot volcanic ash. ^B{410^B} The Visigoths, led by Alaric, sacked Rome. ^B{1572^B} Charles IX ordered the massacre of the Huguenots throughout France; in Paris thousands were killed in what became known as the Massacre of St Bartholomew. ^B{1704^B} The French were defeated by the English and Dutch fleets at the Battle of Malaga. ^B{1814^B} British forces captured Washington, DC and set the White House on fire. ^B{1921^B} The Turkish army, led by Mustafa Kemal, drove back the Greeks at the Battle of the Sakkaria River. ^B{1959^B} The ^I{Manchester Guardian^I} was renamed the ^I{Guardian^I}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}George Stubbs, English painter, ^B{1724^B}; William Wilberforce, English philanthropist, ^B{1759^B}; Max Beerbohm, English writer and caricaturist, ^B{1872^B}; Graham Sutherland, English painter, ^B{1903^B}; Charles Causley, English poet, ^B{1917^B}; Stephen Fry, English actor and writer, ^B{1957^B}.^B}
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Pliny the Elder, Roman naturalist and writer, ^B{79^B}; Alaric I, King of the Visigoths, 410^B}; Thomas Blood, Irish adventurer, ^B{1680^B}; Thomas Chatterton, English poet, ^B{1770^B}; Nicolas LΘonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist, ^B{1832^B}; Ronald Knox, British theologian, ^B{1957^B}.
