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Events
303 – Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire.
484 – 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.
1303 – Battle of Roslin, of the First War of Scottish Independence.
1386 – King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1525 – Spanish-Imperial army defeat French army at Battle of Pavia.
1538 – Treaty of Nagyvárad between Ferdinand I and John Zápolya.
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII issues a papal bull, or edict, Inter gravissimas, outlining his calendar reforms. (The Gregorian Calendar is the calendar in general use today.)
1607 – L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, receives its première performance.
1711 – The London première of Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel, the first Italian opera written for the London stage.
1739 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
1809 – London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
1821 – Final stage of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain with Plan of Iguala.
1822 – The first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
1826 – The signing of the Treaty of Yandabo marks the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War.
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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1848 – King Louis-Philippe of France abdicates the throne.
1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
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.
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.
1881 – China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
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.
1916 – The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
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.
1918 – Estonian Declaration of Independence.
1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
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".
1944 – Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese occupied Burma.
1945 – Egyptian Premier Ahmad Mahir Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
1946 – Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, elected to his first term as President of Argentina.
1968 – Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
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.
1976 – Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed.
1980 – The United States Olympic Hockey team completes their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal.
1981 – An earthquake registering 6.7 (surface wave magnitude) hits Athens. This intensity IX (Violent) shock kills 16 people and destroys buildings in several towns west of the city.
1983 – A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
1984 – Tyrone Mitchell perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
1996 – The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.
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.
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.
2007 – Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
2011 – Final Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103).
2015 – A Metrolink train derails in Oxnard, California, following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Matthias, Apostle. Double of the Second Class. (February 25 in Leap-Year.)
In Leap-Year February has 29 days, the additional day being inserted after the 23rd.
Contemporary Western
Æthelberht of Kent
Blessed Ascensión Nicol y Goñi
Modest (bishop of Trier)
Sergius of Cappadocia
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Lindel Tsen and Paul Sasaki (Anglican Church of Canada)
Eastern Orthodox
February 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
First (4th c.) and Second (452) Findings of the Precious Head of St. John the Baptist.
Saints
Saint John the Harvester (Theristos), of Calabria (9th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Martyrs Montanus, Lucias, Julian, Victoricus, Flavian, and their companions,
at Carthage (259)
Saint Primitiva (Primitivus), an early martyr, probably in Rome
Saint Modestus, Bishop of Trier in Germany and Confessor (489)
Saint Praetextatus (Prix), Bishop of Rouen in France and Martyr (586)
Saint Liudhard (Letard), Chaplain and Bishop of Queen Bertha of Kent (c. 600)
Saint Æthelberht of Kent, King of Kent (616)
Saint Boisil of Melrose Abbey (664)
Saint Cummain Ailbe (Cumine the White), Abbot of Iona (669)
Saint Betto, a monk at Sainte Colombe in Sens in France, who became Bishop
of Auxerre in 889 (918)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Venerable Erasmus of the Kiev Caves Monastery (c. 1160)
Other commemorations
Uncovering of the relics (1486) of St. Romanus, Prince of Uglich (1285)
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