About February 24
February 24, 2024 is the 55th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 311 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 340 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
February 24: More About This Day
By Roman custom, February 24 is the day added to a leap year in the Julian calendar. The Mensis Intercalaris began on this day or the following day in intercalary years in the pre-Julian calendar. This custom still has some effect around the world; for example, with respect to name days in Hungary.
What Happened On February 24
- 1387 –King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
- 1538 –Treaty of Nagyvarad between Ferdinand I and John Zápolya.
- 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.
- 1822 –The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
- 1826 –The signing of the Treaty of Yandaboo marks the end of the First 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.
- 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.
- 1918 –Estonian Declaration of Independence.
- 1942 –The Battle of Los Angeles, one of the largest documented UFO sightings in history; the event lasted into the early hours of February 26, 1942.
- 1945 –Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
- 1976 –Cuba: national Constitution is proclaimed.
- 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.
- 1983 –A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
- 1989 –Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
- 1999 –A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern the People’s Republic of China, killing 61.
- 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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