Vesuvius Day Commemoration - 24th August

While browsing the internet, I learned about a special day celebrated by Romans as Vesuvius Day. It is celebrated every year on 24th August in remembrance of the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.

The eruption destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, Torre Annunziata, and other nearby communities. The eruption was so powerful that it released 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Here is a link to the details of the eruption and the damage faced by Italy at that time.

Vesuvius Day.