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February 24…
1304, born, Ibn Batutu, Arab traveler and author.
1581 Pope Gregory approves the results of his calendar reform commission
1582 Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar
1786, born, Wilhelm Grimm, German scholar.
Wilhelm Grimm was born on this date in 1786. National Geographic presents a site about the Grimm brothers and their fairy tales; it includes biographical information, the text of selected tales, and activities for children.
Grimm Brothers @ nationalgeographic.com
1803: Marbury v. Madison establishes the authority of the Supreme Court of the United States to decide whether acts of Congress are legitimate under the U.S. Constitution.
Marbury v. Madison, landmark court case of 1803 in which the Supreme Court of the United States established its authority to review and invalidate government actions that conflict with the Constitution of the United States. In Marbury, Chief Justice John Marshall, speaking for a unanimous Court, expressed for the first time the concept of judicial review at the federal level. Although the Court’s decision concerned only a minor provision of a federal law, the case is monumentally significant because it was the first time that the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress to be unconstitutional. Equally significant was Marshall’s reasoning in the case.
Today Marbury is generally considered to be the most important early U.S. Supreme Court decision and the leading precedent for the idea that the Court has the power—and the duty—to strike down acts of Congress that violate the Constitution. While central to modern jurisprudence, the case involved a rather technical set of facts and an issue of relatively minor importance.
1821, Mexico declared its independence from Spain.
1836, born, Winslow Homer, naturalist painter.
1858, born, Arnold Dolmetsch, English musician.
1863, The United States Congress establishes the Arizona Territory from part of the New Mexico Territory.
1868, the House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate.
1874, Honus Wagner, American professional baseball player, nicknamed the Flying Dutchman, and considered one of the greatest shortstops in the history of baseball. He was born John Peter Wagner in Mansfield (now Carnegie), Pennsylvania. He played semiprofessional and minor league baseball in Ohio and New Jersey, and in 1896 he joined the Louisville team of the National League. In 1900, Pittsburgh took Louisville's place in the league, and Wagner played shortstop for the Pittsburgh Pirates until his retirement in 1917. He was the National League batting champion eight times, and his lifetime batting average was .329. He also led the league five times in stolen bases. Wagner was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.
1885, born, Joseph Sprinzak Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
1903, the United States signed an agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
1917, Russian revolution breaks out
1918, Estonia declares independence from Russia
1920, Peace treaty gives Estonia independence
1920, a fledgling German political party held its first meeting of importance in Munich; it became known as the Nazi Party, and its chief spokesman was Adolf Hitler.
1923 Mass arrests in US of Mafia
1924 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
1924: Johnny Weissmuller breaks the world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming (57:2/5 seconds).
1933 League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
1934 Frank Chapot US, equestrian (Olympics-silver-1960, 1972)
1937 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Washington DC
1941 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague
1941 Anti Nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1943 General-Major Bradley flies to Algiers
1944 Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
1945, American soldiers liberated the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese control during World War II.
1945 Manila freed from Japanese
1945 Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
1945 Egypt & Syria declares war on Nazi-Germany
1946: Juan Perón is elected president of Argentina.
1948 Lorri Menconi playmate (February 1969)
1948 Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands NM, 400 km
1949 Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
1950 Labour wins British parliamentary election
1950 Cathy Mant LPGA golfer
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 East German President Ulbricht visits Egypt
1966 Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
1976 Cuba adopts its constitution
1977 President Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
1978 Louise Woodward Elton England, nanny who killed Matthew Eappen
1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford TX
1979 War between North & South Yemen begins
1980, the U.S. hockey team defeated Finland, four goals to two, to clinch the gold medal at the Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, N.Y.
1983, a congressional commission released a report condemning the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II as a "grave injustice."
1987: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hits his first three-point shot. Up to this date, he has scored 36,000 points, but only scoring two points at a time.
1989, a state funeral was held in Japan for Emperor Hirohito, who had died the month before at age 87.
1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1991 End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
1991 US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
1991 "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 performances
1993 35th Grammy Awards Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton wins
1994 Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleveland Indians' park (Jacobs Field)
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74
1996 Cuba downs 2 US planes
Missing in Action
1965 FRAKES DWIGHT GLENN LOS ANGELES CA TANGELED IN PARA SANK
1966 HETRICK RAYMOND H. BROOKVILLE PA
1968 FRIESE LAURENCE V. HURON SD 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 MARVEL JERRY W. EVANSVILLE IN 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV DIED MAY 1995 ENROUTE
February 24…
1570, Pope Pius V excommunicated England's Queen Elizabeth I.
1707, Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright
1793, the department heads of the U.S. government met with President Washington at his home for the first Cabinet meeting on record.
1836, inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver.
1841, Pierre Renoir, French impressionist painter
1890, Myra Hess, British pianist
1913, the 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving Congress the power to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect.
1917, Anthony Burgess, British novelist and critic, best known for his controversial novel A Clockwork Orange (1962). Burgess was born in Manchester and was educated at the University of Manchester. He served in the army from 1940 to 1946 and then became a lecturer at Birmingham University. From 1948 to 1950 Burgess worked for the ministry of education. He was later appointed education officer in the Colonial Service and was based in Borneo and Malaya from 1954 to 1959. During his time abroad Burgess wrote his first three novels: Time for a Tiger (1956), The Enemy in the Blanker (1958), and Beds in the East (1959), published together as The Malayan Trilogy in 1972.
1919: Oregon is the first state to impose a state tax on gasoline (one cent a gallon).
1950, Neil Jordan, Irish film director, screenwriter, and novelist
1964: Boxer Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston after six rounds in Miami, Florida, to win the world heavyweight boxing title. The same year Clay announces his conversion to Islam, changing his name to Muhammad Ali. He boasted he was "The Greatest," and in the prime of his charismatic career, many agreed. But as brilliant as Muhammad Ali was in the ring, perhaps his true greatness was outside it when he fought the United States government. His refusal to accept induction into the armed forces on religious grounds cost him millions and his heavyweight title, but in the end Ali came up victorious in the most significant battle of his life.
1986: President Ferdinand E. Marcos flees the Philippines, after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; Corazon Aquino assumed the presidency and is sworn in.
1998: Bob Dylan wins three awards, including album of the year for Time Out of Mind, and his son Jakob wins two awards at the 40th annual Grammy Awards in New York City.
Missing in Action
1965 FRAKES DWIGHT GLENN LOS ANGELES CA TANGELED IN PARA SANK
1966 HETRICK RAYMOND H. BROOKVILLE PA
1968 FRIESE LAURENCE V. HURON SD 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV ALIVE AND WELL 98
1968 MARVEL JERRY W. EVANSVILLE IN 03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV DIED MAY 1995 ENROUTE
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