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Today in history

A.D. 79: Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash. 20,000 died.

A.D. 410: Rome was overrun by the Visigoths.

1572: The St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics began in Paris.

1814: The British invaded Washington, setting fire to the Capitol and the White House.

1949: The North Atlantic Treaty came into force.

1954: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.

1968: France became the world’s fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.

1992: Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, causing dozens of deaths.

2006: The International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a planet, demoting it to the status of a “dwarf planet.”