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August 24
The Burning of HMS Liberty, Newport
Drop in and WEAVE!, Pawtucket
3rd Annual Old Time Music Picnic, Narragansett
RISEUP Paranormal Investigation, Coventry
August 24-25
Loyal 9 Summer Music Festival, Peace Dale, South Kingstown
Civil War Reenactment, Newport
August 25
Season Closing: Membership Day, Tiverton Four Corners, Tiverton
Civil War Day, Lincoln
Federal Hill Culinary and History Tour, Providence
Sam's Mill Fest, Pawtucket
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August 24th in Rhode Island history*
1740
Colonel Israel Angell is born in Providence.
1781
Foster (named for U.S. Senator Theodore Foster), is taken from Scituate and incorporated as a town.
1865
Merchants National Bank (formerly Merchants Bank of Providence) is organized and granted federal charter #1131.
1904
The First National Bank of Warren (Charter #673), the National Hope Bank of Warren (Charter #1008), the National Warren Bank of Warren (Charter #1419), the Warren Trust Company, and the Warren Institution for Savings are all absorbed by the Industrial Trust Company.
1949
Former Rhode Island Governor and U.S. Senator J. Howard McGrath is sworn in as United States Attorney General.
1962
Someone realizes there is still black powder inside the barrel of the Gettysburg Gun on display in the State House. The Rhode Island National Guard's Army Corps of Engineers will drill holes in the barrel and submerge it in water to remove the powder.
1964
Rhode Island Senator John O. Pastore delivers the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
1977
A statewide grand jury—the first of its kind ever called in Rhode Island—hears evidence involving 25 people arrested in what authorities have called an international drug ring.
1988
The creation of a kidney transplant program at Rhode Island Hospital, scheduled to begin accepting patients in 1990, is approved by Rhode Island Health Director H. Denman Scott.
1992
Ground is broken for a 220-bed federal detention center in Central Falls.
