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On This Day, August 24
- 2023: Japan officially begins discharging treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean, sparking international concerns and condemnation.
- 2020: Erin O'Toole is elected leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
- 2017: The National Space Agency of Taiwan successfully launches the observation satellite Formosat-5 into space.
- 2016: An earthquake strikes Central Italy with a magnitude of 6.2, with aftershocks felt as far as Rome and Florence. Around 300 people are killed.
- 2016: Proxima Centauri b, the closest exoplanet to Earth, is discovered by the European Southern Observatory.