February 24
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February 24 is the 55th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 310 days remaining after February 24 until the end of the year (311 in leap years).
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[change] Events
- 1303 – An English Army is defeated by a Scottish Army in the Battle of Roslin.
- 1377 – Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated in Buda.
- 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announces the introduction of the Gregorian calendar.
- 1607 – The L'Orfeo opera by Claudio Monteverdi premieres.
- 1848 – Louis Philippe I gives up the French throne. He is France's last king.
- 1863 – Arizona becomes a US territory.
- 1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first US President to be impeached, by the House of Representatives.
- 1875 – The ship SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef, and sinks, killing around 100 people.
- 1918 – Estonia declared its independence.
- 1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
- 1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in parliament.
- 1966 – While abroad, Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah is diposed from power in a military coup, and replaced by Joseph Arthur Ankrah.
- 1980 – The Shekel becomes the currency of Israel.
- 1980 – The US men's ice hockey team wins the gold medal over Finland at the Winter Olympics.
- 1981 – A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Athens.
- 1981 – Charles, Prince of Wales and the future Diana, Princess of Wales announce their engagement.
- 1991 – In Operation Desert Storm the ground war begins.
- 2003 – A magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Xinjiang Province in China kills 261 people.
- 2004 – An earthquake in Morocco kills 571 people.
- 2006 – After an attempted coup in the Philippines, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declares a state of emergency.
- 2007 – Japan launches its fourth spy satellite to monitor potential threats, such as North Korea.
- 2008 – Raul Castro becomes President of Cuba, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro.
- 2011 – The Space Shuttle Discovery launches for the last time.
[change] Births
- 1103 – Emperor Toba of Japan (d. 1156)
- 1304 – Ibn Battuta, traveller from present-day Morocco (date of death unknown)
- 1463 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian humanist (d. 1494)
- 1500 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1558)
- 1536 – Pope Clement VIII (d. 1605)
- 1557 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1619)
- 1597 – Vincent Voiture, French poet (d. 1648)
- 1722 – John Burgoyne, British general and writer (d. 1792)
- 1786 – Wilhelm Grimm, German storyteller (d. 1859)
- 1805 – Julius Vogel, 8th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1899)
- 1831 – Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1899)
- 1836 – Winslow Homer, American artist (d. 1910)
- 1843 – Teofilo Braga, Portuguese writer and statesman (d. 1924)
- 1866 – Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist (d. 1912)
- 1880 – Einar Arnorsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1955)
- 1885 – Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish writer, painter and philosopher (d. 1939)
- 1885 – Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (d. 1966)
- 1899 – Mikhail Mikhailovich Gromov, Soviet-Russian pilot (d. 1985)
- 1909 – Max Black, American philosopher (d. 1988)
- 1912 – Jiri Trnka, Czech puppet maker and illustrator (d. 1969)
- 1922 – Richard Hamilton, British painter and collage artist (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Steven Hill, American actor
- 1931 – Dominic Chianese, American actor
- 1934 – Bettino Craxi, Italian politician (d. 2000)
- 1934 – Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi
- 1938 – James Farentino, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1940 – Denis Law, Scottish footballer
- 1942 – Paul Jones, English singer
- 1942 – Joe Lieberman, American politician
- 1948 – Walter Smith, Scottish football manager
- 1948 – Dennis Waterman, English actor
- 1955 – Steve Jobs, American computer pioneer, CEO of Apple Inc. (d. 2011)
- 1955 – Alain Prost, French race car driver
- 1956 – Judith Butler, American philosopher
- 1965 – Hans-Dieter Flick, German football coach
- 1966 – Billy Zane, American actor
- 1966 – Ben Miller, British comedian, actor and director
- 1967 – Brian Schmidt, American-Australian astrophysicist, 2011 Nobel Prize winner
- 1968 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian (d. 2005)
- 1971 – Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish racing driver
- 1973 – Chris Fehn, American musician (Slipknot)
- 1974 – Karim Bagheri, Iranian footballer
- 1976 – Eric Griffin, American rock guitarist
- 1977 – Floyd Mayweather Jr., American boxer
- 1981 – Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player
- 1981 – Mauro Rosales, Argentine footballer
- 1989 – Trace Cyrus, American musician
- 1991 – Madison Hubbell, American ice dancer
[change] Deaths
- 1307 – Charles III of Naples and Hungary
- 1563 – Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (b. 1519)
- 1777 – Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
- 1810 – Henry Cavendish, English physicist (b. 1731)
- 1815 – Robert Fulton, American inventor (b. 1765)
- 1856 – Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1792)
- 1876 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
- 1925 – Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1860)
- 1945 – Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egyptian Premier
- 1975 – Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet premier (b. 1895)
- 1986 – Tommy Douglas, Scottish-Canadian politician (b. 1904)
- 1988 – Memphis Slim, American blues singer and musician (b. 1915)
- 1990 – Sandro Pertini, Italian politician (b. 1896)
- 1993 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
- 1994 – Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
- 1998 – Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
- 2001 – Claude Shannon, American mathematician and electro technician (b. 1916)
- 2003 – Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
- 2006 – Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
