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24 Feb 1387
King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda
24 Feb 1389
Battle at Falkping Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden
24 Feb 1496
Englands Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders
24 Feb 1527
Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia
24 Feb 1530
1st imperial coronation by a Pope Charles V crowned by Clement V
24 Feb 1538
Treaty of NagyvaradPeace of Grosswardein signed between Ferdinand I of Austria and John Zpolya of Hungary.
24 Feb 1541
Santiago Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 212)
24 Feb 1552
Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated
24 Feb 1582
Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar
24 Feb 1597
Flemish painter Frederick of Valckenborch becomes porter of Frankfurt-on-Main
24 Feb 1607
Claudio Monteverdis opera LOrfeo premieres in Mantua oldest opera still regularly performed
24 Feb 1708
Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen
24 Feb 1739
Battle of Karnal Army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India Muhammad Shah
24 Feb 1779
George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British
24 Feb 1803
US Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)
24 Feb 1804
Londons Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute
24 Feb 1807
17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway Heggerty & Elizabeth Godfrey in England
24 Feb 1826
The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First Burmese War
24 Feb 1835
Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian language monthly magazine
24 Feb 1839
Steam shovel patented by William Otis Philadelphia
24 Feb 1848
King Louis-Philippe abdicates 2nd French republic declared
24 Feb 1855
US Court of Claims forms for cases against government
24 Feb 1857
1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to government
24 Feb 1864
-Feb 25] Battle of Tunnel Hill GA (Buzzards Roost)
24 Feb 1868
1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama)
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
24 Feb 1881
De Lesseps Company begins work on Panama Canal
24 Feb 1881
China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
24 Feb 1888
Louisville Kentucky becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot (i.e. secret ballot on standard voting forms)
24 Feb 1891
French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan
24 Feb 1893
The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America
24 Feb 1896
Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27
24 Feb 1902
Battle at Yzer Spruit Boer general De la Rey beats British
24 Feb 1906
Tomas Estrada Palma defeats Jose Gomez in the election for president of Cuba but Gomez and his followers refuse to accept results and sponsor an uprising
24 Feb 1908
In Muller v Oregon the US Supreme Court favors an Oregon law limiting maximum hours a woman may work and denies that it curtails liberty of contract
24 Feb 1911
Japan and the US conclude a treaty that continues restrictions on Japanese laborers
24 Feb 1914
Frank Cravens Too Many Cooks premieres in NYC
24 Feb 1917
German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
24 Feb 1917
Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood his arm dead at 26 to Cleve for 15000
24 Feb 1921
1st transcontinental flight in 24 hrs flying time arrives in Florida
24 Feb 1925
Thermite explosive 1st used to break up ice jam Waddington NY
24 Feb 1927
John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St NYC
24 Feb 1932
Sir Malcolm Campbell sets world land speed record speed of 253.96 mph driving his famous Blue Bird car at Daytona Beach Florida
24 Feb 1933
Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin
24 Feb 1933
League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
24 Feb 1937
1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized Washington D.C.
24 Feb 1938
Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
24 Feb 1940
Frances Langford records When You Wish Upon a Star
24 Feb 1941
43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
24 Feb 1942
Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
24 Feb 1943
Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II
24 Feb 1945
Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree
24 Feb 1946
General Juan Pern first elected President of Argentina
24 Feb 1948
Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
24 Feb 1949
V-2WAC-Corporal rocket 1st object to reach 5x the speed of sound at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico
24 Feb 1950
Labour wins UK parliamentary election by 5 seats
24 Feb 1951
Bless You All closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 performances
24 Feb 1951
Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of GER
24 Feb 1951
Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of Great Britain
24 Feb 1951
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button of USA
24 Feb 1952
Canada wins 6th Olympic ice hockey title courtesy of a final round 3-3 tie with the US at the Oslo Winter Games Canadian center Billy Gibson top scores with 19 points
24 Feb 1952
Norway goes 1-2 in the mens ski jumping event at the Oslo Winter Olympics with Arnfinn Bergmann winning gold ahead of team mate Torbjrn Falkanger
24 Feb 1955
Silk Stockings opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 461 performances
24 Feb 1960
Austria goes 1-2 in the mens slalom at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics Ernst Hintersteer wins gold ahead of team mate Hias Leitner
24 Feb 1962
New Faces of 62 closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances
24 Feb 1962
Sail Away closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
24 Feb 1962
General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
24 Feb 1963
5th Daytona 500 Tiny Lund driving for Wood Bros Racing wins on 4 pit stops as first 10 laps run under caution flag because of rain
24 Feb 1964
My Heart Skips a Beat single released by Buck Owens (Billboard no. 1 U.S. Hot Country Singles )
24 Feb 1968
Darling of the Day closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 performances
24 Feb 1968
Discovery of 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish)
24 Feb 1968
Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
24 Feb 1969
Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby to study planets atmosphere
24 Feb 1969
Northern Ireland Stormont parliament elections are held the Unionist party fragments into Official Unionist and Unofficial Unionist
24 Feb 1970
29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen Switzerland)
24 Feb 1970
KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem OR (IND) begins broadcasting
24 Feb 1971
Algeria nationalizes 51 percent of French oil concessions
24 Feb 1974
Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater
24 Feb 1976
Jules Feiffers Knock Knock premieres in NYC
24 Feb 1977
12th Academy of Country Music Awards Mickey Gilley and Crystal Gayle win
24 Feb 1978
Kevin Porter NJ sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
24 Feb 1979
Highest price ever paid for a pig 42500 Stamford Texas
24 Feb 1980
Canterbury Tales closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances
24 Feb 1980
Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders
24 Feb 1980
USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal
24 Feb 1980
XIII Winter Olympic Games close in Lake Placid New York
24 Feb 1980
US ice hockey team clinches gold medal with 4-2 win over Finland at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics comes after 4-3 Miracle on Ice victory against hot favourite Soviet Union
24 Feb 1981
Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
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.
24 Feb 1982
Basketball team Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
24 Feb 1982
24th Grammy Awards Betty Davis Eyes Double Fantasy wins
24 Feb 1982
Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
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.
24 Feb 1985
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
24 Feb 1985
Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
24 Feb 1986
Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for 676 million
24 Feb 1987
29th Grammy Awards Higher Love Graceland Bruce Hornsby wins
24 Feb 1988
Finnish ski jumper Matti Nykanen wins his 3rd gold medal of the Calgary Winter Olympics as part of the winning large hill team normal and large hill individual champion
24 Feb 1988
US Supreme Court votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody
24 Feb 1989
150 million year old fossil egg found in Utah with a fossilized dinosaur embryo inside the oldest dinosaur egg yet found in the Northern Hemisphere
24 Feb 1989
Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
24 Feb 1989
US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific 9 die
24 Feb 1989
Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Durn wins 4th world title in different weight divisions when he beats Iran Barkley in a 12 round split decision in Atlantic City 37 year old Durn wins WBC middleweight title
24 Feb 1991
Those Were The Days closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 performances
24 Feb 1991
End of World League of American Footballs (WLAF) 1st draft
24 Feb 1991
US-led forces begin Operation Desert Sabre the ground invasion of southern Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait
24 Feb 1994
Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleveland Indians park (Jacobs Field)
24 Feb 1995
The Corona reconnaissance satellite program in existence from 1959 to 1972 is declassified.
24 Feb 1996
The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
24 Feb 1997
South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp
24 Feb 1997
Qatar inaugurates the worlds largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting facility and formally launches Qatar Liquefied Gas Co.
24 Feb 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 Feb 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 Feb 2002
Joe Sakic and Jerome Iginla each score twice as Canada defeats the United States 5-2 to win the mens ice hockey Olympic gold medal at Salt Lake City
24 Feb 2002
IXX Winter Olympic Games close in Salt Lake City Utah United States
24 Feb 2007
27th Golden Raspberry Awards Basic Instinct 2 wins
24 Feb 2010
Europe risks a double-dip recession after bad results emerge from France Germany and Italy it is reported today the Eurozone only grew by 0.1% in the last quarter of 2009
24 Feb 2011
Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
24 Feb 2013
10 Chadian soldiers and 28 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Adrar des Ifoghas Mali
24 Feb 2013
Nicos Anastasiades wins the Cypriot presidential election
24 Feb 2013
55th Daytona 500 Jimmie Johnson wins 2nd Great American Race Danica Patrick first female to start from pole position also best-ever finish by a woman at Daytona (8th)
24 Feb 2014
7 people are killed & 37 are injured after a bridge collapses in Vietnam
24 Feb 2014
A 4.4 billion-year-old Crystal is discovered to be the oldest known fragment from the earths crust
24 Feb 1982
Boston Celtics begin an 18 NBA game winning streak
24 Feb 2016
Oldest Muslim graves in Europe from the 8th century identified at a buriel site in Nimes France
24 Feb 2018
Mens big air snowboarding event makes Olympic debut at Pyeongchang Canadas Sbastien Toutant is inaugural gold medallist
24 Feb 1952
Norway goes 1-2 in the mens ski jumping event at the Oslo Winter Olympics with Arnfinn Bergmann winning gold ahead of teammate Torbjrn Falkanger
24 Feb 1956
Walter Pistons 5th Symphony commissioned by the Juilliard School of Music for their 50th anniversary premiere performance by the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Jean Morel
24 Feb 1960
Austria goes 1-2 in the mens slalom at the Squaw Valley Winter Olympics Ernst Hintersteer wins gold ahead of teammate Hias Leitner
24 Feb 1962
General mobilization in Indonesia over New Guinea
24 Feb 1152
English cleric and writer Geoffrey of Monmouth consecrated as Bishop of St Asaph at Lambeth
24 Feb 1961
NASA Explorer S-45 mission ionosphere beacon satellite fails to reach Earth orbit
24 Feb 1964
My Heart Skips a Beat single released by Buck Owens (Billboard No. 1 U.S. Hot Country Singles )
24 Feb 1982
24th Grammy Awards Bette Davis Eyes Double Fantasy win
24 Feb 2016
Oldest Muslim graves in Europe from the 8th century identified at a burial site in Nimes France
24 Feb 1917
Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood his arm dead at 26 to Cleveland for 15000
24 Feb 1974
Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes Womens Allround World Champion at Heerenveen Netherlands her third consecutive title and fourth in 5 years
24 Feb 1991
English-Yiddish musical revue Those Were The Days closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 performances
24 Feb 2018
2016 world mass start speed skating champion Lee Seung-hoon of South Korea wins the event at Pyeongchang Winter Olympics also Olympic 10000m champion Vancouver (2010)
24 Feb 2018
After taking gold in the Olympic team sprint in Sochi (2014) Finnish cross country skier Iivo Niskanen wins the 50k classical event in Pyeongchang
24 Feb 1923
Flying Scotsman locomotive of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) built at Doncaster Railway Works goes into service [1]
24 Feb 1991
Gulf War US-led forces begin Operation Desert Sabre the ground invasion of southern Iraq and Iraqi-occupied Kuwait
24 Feb 1600
Last sighting of Dutch trading ship De Hoop by its sister ship De Liefde near the Mariana islands its never seen again
24 Feb 1607
Claudio Monteverdis opera LOrfeo premieres in Mantua the oldest opera still regularly performed
24 Feb 1905
Simplon railroad tunnel through the Alps in Switzerland achieves breakthrough after 7-12 years of construction
24 Feb 1945
WWII US troops defeat Japanese forces in Manila ending the military occuoation
24 Feb 1970
Dutch schlager singer Heintje Simons (14) wins his 7th gold record
24 Feb 1983
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1100 mark for 1st time
24 Feb 2018
Ester Ledeck of the Czech Republic becomes first female to win Olympic gold medals in 2 different sports at a single Winter Games (Pyeongchang) skiing super-G and snowboarding parallel giant slalom
24 Feb 2018
Japanese speed skater Nana Takagi wins her 2nd gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the womens mass start event also member Japans successful pursuit team
24 Feb 2018
Swiss alpine skiers Luca Aerni Denise Feierabend Wendy Holdener Daniel Yule & Ramon Zenhusern win the inaugural Olympic team event at Pyeongchang
24 Feb 2018
UN Security Council passes resolution for 30 day ceasefire in Syria
24 Feb 2019
At least 133 people have died and 200 treated in hospital after drinking toxic bootleg alcohol in Golaghat district north-eastern India
24 Feb 2019
Roman Catholic Church summit on paedophilia ends with Pope Francis promising more action and calling those guilty tools of Satan
24 Feb 2020
Memorial service for NBA star Kobe Byrant held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles
24 Feb 2020
New York firefighter Daniel Foley who found his brothers body in ruins of World Trade Center dies of cancer bringing first responders death toll to 343
24 Feb 2020
Scientists identify the first animal that doesnt need oxygen to breathe - a tiny parasite living in salmon tissue reported in journal PNAS
24 Feb 2021
United Nations-backed COVAX initiative begins delivering vaccines to middle and low income countries with first AstraZeneca shipment to Ghana
24 Feb 1389
Battle of Falkping Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden
24 Feb 1530
First imperial coronation by a pope Charles V crowned by Clement VII
24 Feb 1807
17 die and 15 are wounded in a crush to witness the execution of Holloway Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey in England
24 Feb 1835
Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is the first Native American Indian language monthly magazine
24 Feb 1857
First perforated US postage stamps are delivered to the government
24 Feb 1868
Mardi Gras in Mobile Alabama is the first US parade with floats
24 Feb 1891
French troops under Captain Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan in Africa
24 Feb 1921
First transcontinental flight in 24 hours flying time arrives in Florida
24 Feb 1945
Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a declaration of war against Germany
24 Feb 1945
WWII US troops defeat Japanese forces in Manila ending the military occupoation
24 Feb 1946
General Juan Pern is first elected President of Argentina
24 Feb 1965
THe Beatles begin filming their second feature fim Help on Providence Island in the Bahamas
24 Feb 1979
Highest price ever paid for a pig is 42500 in Stamford Texas
24 Feb 1997
South Africa announces it is constructing the largest modern-day blimp
24 Feb 1999
A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou Airport China killing 61 people
24 Feb 1999
State of Arizona executes convicted murderer and bank robber German national Karl LaGrand despite international legal action by Germany to save him
24 Feb 2014
A 4.4 billion-year-old crystal is discovered as the oldest known fragment of Earths crust
24 Feb 2020
Scientists identify the first animal that doesnt need oxygen to breathe a tiny parasite living in salmon tissue reported in the journal PNAS
24 Feb 2022
Zahir Zakir Jaffer sentenced to death in Islamabad Pakistan for the rape murder and beheading of Noor Muqaddam after she refused to marry him highlighting violence towards women in the country [1]
24 Feb 2023
Puffin publisher of author Roald Dhal announces it will now print his books with their original unaltered text alongside those with offensive language removed after widespread criticism and debate [1]
24 Feb 2024
Brian Ortega wins against Yair Rodrguez at UFC Fight Night 237 earning Performance of the Night