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History on the 24th of February

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24 Feb 0303 RELIGIOUS The first official Roman edict for the persecution of Christians was issued by Roman Emperor Galerius Valerius Maximianus.
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24 Feb 1208 RELIGIOUS St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in the Italian village of Portiuncula. He founded the Franciscans the following year, and is regarded by some Catholics as the greatest of all Christian saints.
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24 Feb 1500 RELIGIOUS Birth of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Reigning 1519-56, it was Charles who officially pronounced Martin Luther an outlaw and heretic.
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24 Feb 1782 RELIGIOUS Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'It is my constitutional weakness to be gloomy and dejected; the work of God puts life into me.'
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24 Feb 1918 WW2 The nation of Estonia was established. 
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24 Feb 1920 WW2 Adolf Hitler made the Twenty-Five Theses speech in Munich, Germany. 
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24 Feb 1925 WW2 Roger Backhouse was promoted to the rank of rear admiral. 
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24 Feb 1927 WW2 Henry Arnold's son David Lee Arnold was born at Fort Riley, Kansas, United States. 
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24 Feb 1933 WW2 Hermann Göring's auxiliary police raided Communist Party offices in Prussia, Germany and claimed to have found documents suggesting the Communists were planning a revolt against the German republic. 
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24 Feb 1936 WW2 Prince Hiroyasu's fifth child, Princess Atsuko, passed away. 
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24 Feb 1937 WW2 When the fighting on the Jarama Front near Madrid, Spain finally came to an end, the Spanish Nationalists had driven a salient into the Republican front-line, but had failed to cut off Madrid. 
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24 Feb 1937 WW2 Vincennes was commissioned into service. 
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24 Feb 1938 WW2 Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg made the "Red-white-red until we're dead" ("Rot-weiß-rot bis in den Tod") speech at the Austrian Bundestag in protest of German threat. In the country, protests both for and against Germany appeared; meanwhile, there was a run on the banks and tourists began to leave the country. 
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24 Feb 1940 WW2 Foreign ministers from Norway, Denmark, and Sweden reasserted the neutrality of their home countries, jointly declaring that they would not assist Finland and would not allow foreign troops to enter their territories. Ignoring this declaration, British envoy to Finland Sir George Gordon Vereker continued to promise 20,000 to 22,000 Allied fighters for Finland if Finland would make such a request by 5 Mar 1940. 
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24 Feb 1940 WW2 German submarine U-63 sank Swedish merchant ship Santos 70 miles east of the Orkney Islands, Scotland at 2100 hours, killing 31. 12 survivors were rescued by HMS Gallant on the next day. 
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24 Feb 1940 WW2 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain condemned Hitler's aggression but said that he was prepared to negotiate with an alternative German government. 
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24 Feb 1940 WW2 Hitler gave approval to detailed plans for the invasion of France and the Low Countries. 
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24 Feb 1940 WW2 USS Helena departed Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. 
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24 Feb 1940 WW2 Commander Mario Giorgini took command of 1a Flottiglia MAS, a motor torpedo boat flotilla. 
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24 Feb 1941 WW2 British Manchester bombers of No. 207 Squadron from Waddington, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom made the Manchester model's operational debut by bombing Brest, France overnight and into the next day. 
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24 Feb 1941 WW2 Omar Bradley was promoted to the temporary rank of brigadier general. 
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24 Feb 1941 WW2 Italian ship Sabbia, damaged by a unsuccessful attack by British submarine HMS Ursula three days prior, nearly made it to Tripoli, Libya when she was intercepted and sunk by British submarine HMS Regent. 
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24 Feb 1941 WW2 300 miles south of Iceland, German submarine U-107 sank British ship HMS Manistee, killing the entire crew of 141, after a chase since the previous day. German submarines U-95 and U-96 and Italian submarine Bianchi attacked the other ships of Allied convoy OB-288 which HMS Manistee was a part of, sinking 7 merchant ships before dawn. 
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24 Feb 1941 WW2 German submarine U-97 sank 3 British ships and damaged Norwegian tanker G.C. Brøvig of Allied convoy OB-289 south of Iceland. 
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24 Feb 1941 WW2 A German patrol with tanks, armored cars, and motorcycles ambushed a British and Australian patrol west of El Agheila, Libya, taking 3 prisoners. 
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24 Feb 1941 WW2 Three German He 111 bombers attacked British destroyers HMS Dainty and HMS Hasty in Tobruk harbor, Libya at 1900 hours. HMS Dainty was sunk by a 500kg bomb, killing 16. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Enterprise launched aircraft to attack Wake Island. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 USS Yorktown for the New Hebrides for a rendezvous with USS Lexington for a raid on Rabaul in the Bismarck Islands. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 Tatsuta Maru arrived at Mereyon, Palau Islands. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 German submarine U-94 sank British ship Empire Hail in the Atlantic Ocean at 0145 hours, killing all 49 aboard. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 George Brett arrived in Melbourne, Australia and assumed command of US Army Forces in Australia. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 Three Australian Catalina aircraft bombed Rabaul, New Britain; 1 aircraft was lost on this mission. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 9 Japanese Type 1 aircraft of 4th Air Group, escorted by 9 Zero fighters, attacked Seven Mile Airfield near Port Moresby, Australian Papua, destroying 1 Hudson aircraft and 1 civilian aircraft, destroying many buildings, destroying a few vehicles, and killing 1 person; Australian fighters did not scramble to intercept. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 Passenger ship Struma, powerless with broken-down engines, drifted in the Black Sea after being abandoned by Turkish authorities on the previous day. In the morning, Soviet submarine SC-213 sank Struma with one torpedo, killing 768 of 769 Romanian Jewish refugees aboard. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 At Java, Dutch East Indies, the headquarters of the Allied ABDA Command was relocated with intention of dissolution. On the same day, Japanese aircraft attacked Allied airfields on Java, destroying 3 US B-17 bombers on the ground; the remaining US 5th Air Force aircraft were evacuated to Australia. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 Nachi departed Staring Bay, Celebes, Dutch East Indies with Cruiser Division 5. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 A Japanese E9W1 seaplane from submarine I-9 conducted a reconnaissance mission over Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. When the aircraft returned to the submarine, both wings were damaged during the recovery. 
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24 Feb 1942 WW2 Hans-Joachim Marseille was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross medal by Albert Kesselring at Martuba airfield, Libya. The citation of the award was dated 22 Feb 1942, two days prior. 
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24 Feb 1943 WW2 The US 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), also known as "Merrill's Marauders", began their campaign in northern Burma. 
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24 Feb 1943 WW2 On Ambon Island in Eastern Indonesia, the Japanese beheaded 132 Australian and Dutch prisoners. 
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24 Feb 1943 WW2 Omar Bradley arrived in French Algeria. 
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24 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Iowa began her shakedown cruise in Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of the United States. 
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24 Feb 1943 WW2 Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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24 Feb 1943 WW2 USS Tunny arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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24 Feb 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Paving of the original land plane runways completed. 
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24 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Tang sank a Japanese freighter, hitting her with three of four torpedoes fired. 
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24 Feb 1944 WW2 American submarine Rasher sank Japanese transports Tango Maru and Ryusei Maru in the Java Sea, not knowing that the former was carrying Allied prisoners of war and laborers. 3,000 POWs and laborers were killed aboard Tango Maru and nearly 5,000 soldiers were killed aboard Ryusei Maru. 
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24 Feb 1944 WW2 Repair ship Akashi arrived at Palau Islands and performed repairs on herself. 
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24 Feb 1944 WW2 Japanese Colonel Tanahashi ordered a retreat from Sinzweya, Burma without authorization. 
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24 Feb 1944 WW2 USAAF (day) and RAF (night) bombings were conducted on the ball bearing plants at Schweinfurt, Germany. 
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24 Feb 1944 WW2 Two Italian motor torpedo boats attacked the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy before dawn, causing no damage and losing one boat. 
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24 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Grayback sank cargo ship Taikei Maru, sank cargo ship Toshin Maru, and damaged two others of Japanese convoy Hi-40 in the East China Sea. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Trepang sank freighter Usuki Maru and damaged another ship, and then survived a seven-hour depth charge barrage by multiple Japanese anti-submarine vessels. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wake Island launched 55 spotting sorties 56 kilometers south of Iwo Jima, Japan; 205 rockets were fired on targets of opportunity. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet 1st Baltic Front was disbanded; its units were merged into Soviet 3rd Byelorussian Front. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Spot departed for her second war patrol. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Ivan Konev declared the Lower Silesian Offensive a success. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Indian 2nd Division crossed the Irrawady River at Ngazumi, Burma and met heavy Japanese resistance. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 The Soviet bridgehead over the Danube River at Hron, Slovakia was destroyed by a German attack. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha was assassinated at parliament by 28-year-old Mustafa Essawy in the parliament building after reading a declaration of war against the Axis Powers. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Adolf Hitler made what was to be his last speech to Reischsleiters and Gauleiters in the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Soviet troops attacked toward the eastern Pommern region of Germany (occupied Poland). 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 During the night of 24-25 Feb, 174 American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs on Tokyo, Japan and destroyed about 3 square kilometers of the city, or about 28,000 buildings. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft launched to attack targets in the Nagoya, Japan area, but the mission was canceled due to poor weather. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 Major Geoffrey Hutchinson, Member of Parliament representing Ilford in London, England, United Kingdom, wrote to the Secretary for Air for assistance with recent German rocket attacks on Ilford. This letter yielded no significant results. 
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24 Feb 1945 WW2 USS Pollack arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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24 Feb 1946 WW2 Submarine R-1 was raised from her sunken state. 
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24 Feb 1948 WW2 USS Brill departed San Francisco, California, United States. 
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24 Feb 1949 WW2 Israel signed an armistice with Egypt to de-escalate the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, also known as the Israeli Independence War. 
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24 Feb 1967 RELIGIOUS Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth wrote in a letter: 'The statement that God is dead comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.'
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