On this day: Yelena Isinbayeva sets new women’s pole vault record in 2004

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 […]

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