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24 February, 2008

Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.

24 February, 2006

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares Proclamation 1017 placing the country in a state of emergency in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.

24 February, 1999

The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germanys legal action to attempt to save him.

24 February, 1999

A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the Peoples Republic of China, killing 61.

24 February, 1996

The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.

24 February, 1995

The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.

24 February, 1989

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

24 February, 1989

United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers out of the business-class section.

24 February, 1983

A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.

24 February, 1981

Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.

24 February, 1981

An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.

24 February, 1976

Cuba : national Constitution proclaimed.

24 February, 1971

The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, was killed 3 days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar appointed as the new chairman.

24 February, 1970

National Public Radio is founded in the United States.

24 February, 1968

Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.

24 February, 1945

Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.

24 February, 1938

A nylon-bristle toothbrush becomes the first commercial product (DuPont) to be made with nylon yarn.

24 February, 1925

A thermite (magnesium) bomb is used for the first time to break up a 250,000-ton ice jam clogging the St. Lawrence River near Waddington, New York.

24 February, 1920

The Nazi Party is founded.

24 February, 1918

Estonian Declaration of Independence.

24 February, 1917

World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if that country declares war on the United States.

24 February, 1909

The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.

24 February, 1899

Western Washington University is established.

24 February, 1895

Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the second war for Cuban independence, which ended with the Spanish-American War in 1898.

24 February, 1893

The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America.

24 February, 1881

China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.

24 February, 1875

The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast with the loss of approximately 102 lives.

24 February, 1868

The first parade to have floats is staged at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.

24 February, 1868

Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.

24 February, 1863

Arizona is organized as a United States territory.

24 February, 1848

King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.

24 February, 1839

William Otis receives a patent for the steam shovel.

24 February, 1831

The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.

24 February, 1826

The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War.

24 February, 1804

Londons Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.

24 February, 1803

The Supreme Court of the United States, in Marbury v. Madison, establishes the principle of judicial review.

24 February, 1739

Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.

24 February, 1711

The London premiere of Rinaldo by George Friderich Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.

24 February, 1607

LOrfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, premieres.

24 February, 1582

Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.

24 February, 1538

Treaty of Nagyvarad between Ferdinand I and John Zápolya.

24 February, 1387

King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.

24 February, 303

Galerius, Roman Emperor, publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Empire.

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