Reuters
Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Aug. 24:
1922 - Arab states meeting at Nablus rejected the British mandate for Palestine given by the League of Nations.
1995 - Microsoft releases Windows 95 operating system.
1997 - Kenyan-born Wilson Kipketer of Denmark breaks men's 800m world record.
1999 - Australia's Ian Thorpe sets new world record time in 200m freestyle event.
2003 - Pakistani batsman Yasir Hameed makes cricket history when he scores his second hundred, on his test debut.
2004 - Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva sets new women's pole vault record.
2006 - Scientists from around the world approved a new definition of a planet, downgrading Pluto to a "dwarf planet".
2008 - Beijing Olympics concluded. China topped the medal tally with 51 gold medals, 15 more than the second-placed United States.
2010 - Singer George Michael please guilty to driving under the influence of drugs and possessing cannabis.
2015 - French President Francois Hollande awards the country's highest honour, the Legion d'honneur, to three U.S. Citizens and a Briton who helped disarm a machine gun-toting attacker on a train.
2016 - Earthquake strikes central Italy.
