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Events on the 24th of February in history

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24 Feb 0303 Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire.
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24 Feb 0303 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued
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24 Feb 0484 King Huneric removes the Christian bishops from their offices and banished some to Corsica. A few are martyred, including former proconsul Victorian along with Frumentius and other merchants. They are killed at Hadrumetum after refusing to become Arians.
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24 Feb 1208 St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy
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24 Feb 1296 Pope Boniface VIII degree Clericis Iaicos
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24 Feb 1303 Battle of Roslin, of the First War of Scottish Independence.
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24 Feb 1387 King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
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24 Feb 1389 Battle at Falk
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24 Feb 1496 England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders
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24 Feb 1510 Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice
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24 Feb 1525 Francois I caught taken / 8700 killed
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24 Feb 1525 Imperial forces defeat French in battle of Pavia
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24 Feb 1525 Spanish-Imperial army defeat French army at Battle of Pavia.
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24 Feb 1525 Battle at Pavia Emperor Karel V's troops beat French king, Fran
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24 Feb 1527 Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia
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24 Feb 1528 J
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24 Feb 1530 1st imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V
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24 Feb 1538 Treaty of Nagyvárad between Ferdinand I and John Zápolya.
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24 Feb 1538 King Ferdinand of Austria & King J
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24 Feb 1541 Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia
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24 Feb 1552 Privileges of the Hanseatic League in England are abrogated
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24 Feb 1581 Pope Gregory approves the results of his calendar reform commission
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24 Feb 1582 With the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
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24 Feb 1582 Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar
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24 Feb 1597 Flemish painter Frederick of Valckenborch becomes porter of Frankfurt-on-Main
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24 Feb 1607 L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
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24 Feb 1607 Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo" premieres in Mantua
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24 Feb 1613 English princess Elizabeth marries earl Frederik of Palts
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24 Feb 1708 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen
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24 Feb 1711 The London première of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
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24 Feb 1779 George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British
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24 Feb 1786 Charles Cornwallis appointed Governor-General of India
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24 Feb 1793 French troops conquer Breda
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24 Feb 1803 In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
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24 Feb 1803 Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury vs Madison)
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24 Feb 1807 17 die and 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey in England
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24 Feb 1809 London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
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24 Feb 1821 Final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala .
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24 Feb 1821 Mexico gains independence from Spain
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24 Feb 1822 The first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
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24 Feb 1826 The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War.
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24 Feb 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.
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24 Feb 1835 Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian language monthly magazine
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24 Feb 1836 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at the Alamo, lasts 13 days
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24 Feb 1839 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
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24 Feb 1848 King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
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24 Feb 1848 King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared
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24 Feb 1855 US Court of Claims forms for cases against government
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24 Feb 1855 US Court of Claims established for cases against the government
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24 Feb 1857 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to the government
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24 Feb 1857 Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized
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24 Feb 1863 Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
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24 Feb 1863 Arizona Territory created
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24 Feb 1863 Forrest's raid on Brentwood TN
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24 Feb 1864 Battle of Tunnel Hill GA (Buzzard's Roost)
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24 Feb 1868 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama)
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24 Feb 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.
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24 Feb 1868 House of Representatives vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson
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24 Feb 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.
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24 Feb 1876 Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" premieres in Oslo
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24 Feb 1881 China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
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24 Feb 1881 De Lesseps' Company begins work on Panam
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24 Feb 1888 Louisville KY becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot
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24 Feb 1891 French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Di
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24 Feb 1894 Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)
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24 Feb 1895 Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
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24 Feb 1895 Cuban war of independence begins
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24 Feb 1896 Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27
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24 Feb 1902 Battle at Yzer Spruit Boer General De la Rey beats British
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24 Feb 1903 US signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba
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24 Feb 1905 Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed
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24 Feb 1914 Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks" premieres in New York NY
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24 Feb 1916 The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
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24 Feb 1917 Russian revolution breaks out (3 / 8 NS)
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24 Feb 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 Mexico declares war on the United States.
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24 Feb 1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WWI exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
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24 Feb 1917 Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000
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24 Feb 1918 Estonian Declaration of Independence.
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24 Feb 1918 Estonia declares independence from Russia
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24 Feb 1920 The Nazi Party is founded.
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24 Feb 1920 Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
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24 Feb 1920 NSDAP begins at Hofbr
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24 Feb 1921 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hours flying time arrives Florida
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24 Feb 1923 Flying Scotsman goes into service
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24 Feb 1923 Mass arrests in US of Mafia
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24 Feb 1924 Greek parliament proclaims republic
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24 Feb 1924 Johnny Weissmuller, swims 100 meter record (57:2/5 seconds)
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24 Feb 1924 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
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24 Feb 1925 Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, New York
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24 Feb 1927 John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St, New York City
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24 Feb 1932 Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona
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24 Feb 1933 Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin
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24 Feb 1933 League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
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24 Feb 1937 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Washington DC
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24 Feb 1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
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24 Feb 1939 Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston
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24 Feb 1940 Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
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24 Feb 1941 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
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24 Feb 1941 Anti Nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
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24 Feb 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".
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24 Feb 1942 The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history; the event lasted into the early hours of February 25.
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24 Feb 1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
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24 Feb 1943 General-Major Bradley flies to Algiers
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24 Feb 1943 Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WWII
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24 Feb 1944 Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma.
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24 Feb 1944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
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24 Feb 1945 Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
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24 Feb 1945 Egypt & Syria declares war on Nazi-Germany
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24 Feb 1945 Manila freed from Japanese
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24 Feb 1945 Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
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24 Feb 1946 Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, elected to his first term as President of Argentina.
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24 Feb 1946 Juan Peron elected President of Argentina
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24 Feb 1948 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
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24 Feb 1949 V-2 / WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
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24 Feb 1949 Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
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24 Feb 1950 Labour wins British parliamentary election
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24 Feb 1951 "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 performances
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24 Feb 1951 Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of Germany
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24 Feb 1951 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of Great Britain
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24 Feb 1951 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA
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24 Feb 1952 Betty MacKinnon and Sam Snead wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
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24 Feb 1955 "Silk Stockings" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 461 performances
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24 Feb 1955 Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
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24 Feb 1960 Italian government of Segni falls
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24 Feb 1960 US beats Germany in Olympics hockey finals round, 9-1
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24 Feb 1961 Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
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24 Feb 1962 "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
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24 Feb 1962 "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances
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24 Feb 1962 General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
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24 Feb 1964 Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing title
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24 Feb 1965 Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
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24 Feb 1965 Beatles begin filming "Help" in the Bahamas
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24 Feb 1965 East German President Ulbricht visits Egypt
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24 Feb 1966 Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
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24 Feb 1968 "Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 performances
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24 Feb 1968 Discovery of 1st pulsar announced
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24 Feb 1968 Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar
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24 Feb 1968 Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
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24 Feb 1968 Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
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24 Feb 1968 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
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24 Feb 1968 US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam
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24 Feb 1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars fly-by
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24 Feb 1970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
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24 Feb 1970 Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
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24 Feb 1970 KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem OR (IND) begins broadcasting
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24 Feb 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.
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24 Feb 1971 Algeria nationalizes French oil companies
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24 Feb 1974 Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
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24 Feb 1974 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champion all-round skater
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24 Feb 1976 Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed.
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24 Feb 1976 Cuba adopts its constitution
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24 Feb 1976 Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock" premieres in New York NY
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24 Feb 1976 Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU
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24 Feb 1977 President Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
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24 Feb 1978 Kevin Porter, New Jersey, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
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24 Feb 1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
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24 Feb 1979 War between North & South Yemen begins
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24 Feb 1980 "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances
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24 Feb 1980 Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
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24 Feb 1980 USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal
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24 Feb 1980 The United States Olympic Hockey team completes its Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4–2 to win the gold medal.
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24 Feb 1980 Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders
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24 Feb 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.
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24 Feb 1981 Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
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24 Feb 1981 Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
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24 Feb 1981 Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer
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24 Feb 1982 Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
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24 Feb 1982 24th Grammy Awards Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy win
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24 Feb 1983 A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
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24 Feb 1983 Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time
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24 Feb 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
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24 Feb 1984 Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
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24 Feb 1984 Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
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24 Feb 1985 Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
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24 Feb 1985 Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yards
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24 Feb 1985 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
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24 Feb 1985 Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
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24 Feb 1985 Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
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24 Feb 1986 Voyager 2, 1st Uranus fly-by
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24 Feb 1986 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
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24 Feb 1987 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
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24 Feb 1987 29th Grammy Awards Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby win
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24 Feb 1987 Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
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24 Feb 1988 Supreme Court votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
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24 Feb 1988 Matti Nykanen becomes winter Olympics 1st triple gold medalist
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24 Feb 1988 South African apartheid regime bans the UDF
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24 Feb 1989 United Airlines Flight 811, bound for New Zealand from Honolulu, rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.
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24 Feb 1989 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
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24 Feb 1989 Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
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24 Feb 1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
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24 Feb 1989 Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
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24 Feb 1989 US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
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24 Feb 1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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24 Feb 1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
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24 Feb 1991 "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 performances
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24 Feb 1991 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
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24 Feb 1991 US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
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24 Feb 1993 35th Grammy Awards Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton wins
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24 Feb 1994 Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleveland Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
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24 Feb 1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74
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24 Feb 1996 Cuba downs 2 US planes
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24 Feb 1996 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
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24 Feb 1997 Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died February 19th)
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24 Feb 1997 South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp
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24 Feb 1998 NHL resumes season since February 8th to accommodate the Olympics
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24 Feb 1998 Elton John knighted
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24 Feb 1999 The U.S. state of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
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24 Feb 2002 XIX winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City UT/Qu
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24 Feb 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.
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24 Feb 2007 Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
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24 Feb 2008 Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
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24 Feb 2011 Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
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24 Feb 2015 Stock Index FTSE 100 reaches an all-time high after almost 15 years; the previous all-time high was reached on the last trading day of 1999 during the dot-com boom.
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24 Feb 2015 A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California, following a collision with a truck, leaves more than 30 injured.
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