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What Happened on February 24th This Day in History

Year	Name
2022	Days after recognising Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states, Russian president Vladimir Putin orders a full scale invasion of Ukraine.
2020	Mahathir Mohamad resigned as Prime Minister of Malaysia following an attempt to replace Pakatan Harapan government which triggered 2020 Malaysian political crisis.
2016	Tara Air Flight 193, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft, crashed, with 23 fatalities, in Solighopte, Myagdi District, Dhaulagiri Zone, while en route from Pokhara Airport to Jomsom Airport.
2015	A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
2008	Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
2007	Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
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.
2004	The 6.3 Mw Al Hoceima earthquake strikes northern Morocco with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 628 people are killed, 926 are injured, and up to 15,000 are displaced.
1999	China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
1996	Two civilian airplanes operated by the Miami-based group Brothers to the Rescue are shot down in international waters by the Cuban Air Force.
1991	Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
1989	United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.
1984	Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
1983	A special commission of the United States Congress condemns the Japanese American internment during World War II.
1981	The 6.7 .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Ms Gulf of Corinth earthquake affected Central Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). Twenty-two people were killed, 400 were injured, and damage totaled $812 million.
1978	The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
1976	The current constitution of Cuba is formally proclaimed.
1971	The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
1968	Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnamese forces led by Ngo Quang Truong recapture the citadel of Hué.
1967	Cultural Revolution: Zhang Chunqiao announces the dissolution of the Shanghai People's Commune, replacing its local government with a revolutionary committee.
1949	The Armistice Agreements are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1946	Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina.
1945	Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1944	Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese-occupied Burma.
1942	791[22] Romanian Jewish refugees and crew members are killed after the MV Struma is torpedoed by the Soviet Navy.[23]
1942	The Battle of Los Angeles: A false alarm led to an anti-aircraft barrage that lasted into the early hours of February 25.
1942	An order-in-council passed under the Defence of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin".
1920	Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom following her election as a Member of Parliament (MP) three months earlier.
1920	The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
1918	Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1917	World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page 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 Mexico declares war on the United States.
1916	The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
1895	Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence; the war ends along with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
1881	China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
1876	The stage première of Peer Gynt, a play by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania (Oslo), Norway.
1875	The SS Gothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries.
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.
1863	Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
1854	A Penny Red with perforations becomes the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution.
1848	King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
1831	The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed.
1826	The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War.
1822	The first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
1821	Final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala.
1809	London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving its owner, Irish writer and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan, destitute.
1803	In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
1739	Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1711	Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, is premièred.
1607	L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
1597	The last battle of the Cudgel War was fought on the Santavuori Hill in Ilmajoki, Ostrobothnia.
1582	With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
1538	Treaty of Nagyvárad between Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I and King John Zápolya of Hungary and Croatia.
1527	Coronation of Ferdinand I as the king of Bohemia in Prague.
1525	A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.
1386	King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1303	The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
484	King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.

Famous People Born on February 24

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Year	Name
1965	Jane Swift, American businesswoman and politician, Governor of Massachusetts
1956	Paula Zahn, American journalist and producer
1943	Gigi Meroni, Italian footballer (d. 1967)
1831	Leo von Caprivi, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1899)
1991	Semih Kaya, Turkish footballer
1919	John Carl Warnecke, American architect (d. 2010)
1982	Fala Chen, Chinese actress and singer
1963	Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Indian filmmaker
1972	Manon Rhéaume, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1946	Grigory Margulis, Russian mathematician and academic

Famous People Deaths On February 24

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on February 24. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1721	John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English poet and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1648)
1714	Edmund Andros, English courtier and politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (b. 1637)
1810	Henry Cavendish, French-English physicist and chemist (b. 1731)
1974	Margaret Leech, American historian and author (b. 1895)
1785	Carlo Buonaparte, Corsican lawyer and politician (b. 1746)
1910	Osman Hamdi Bey, Turkish archaeologist and painter (b. 1842)
1982	Virginia Bruce, American actress (b. 1910)
1994	Jean Sablon, French singer and actor (b. 1906)
2010	Dawn Brancheau, senior animal trainer at SeaWorld (b. 1969)
1975	Hans Bellmer, German artist (b. 1902)