Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 24

This is a list of selected February 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  Pope Gregory XIII
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  Francis I taken prisoner
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  Louis-Philippe, King of the French
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  Louis-Philippe de Bourbon
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  Adolf Hitler
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  President Juan Perón of Argentina
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  The Burning of Drury Lane Theatre from Westminster Bridge by Thomas Luny
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  Andrew Johnson
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  Swaminarayan Mandir
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  Soldiers marching through the Kasserine Pass
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  Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Flag Day in Mexico	refimprove section
; National Artist Day in Thailand	refimprove section
951 – Liu Yun, an aspirant to the throne, was put to death by Guo Wei, founder of the last of northern China's Five Dynasties.	no practical way to verify date
1525 – A Habsburg army defeated French forces at the Battle of Pavia, the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–1526.	Citations needed
1582 – Pope Gregory XIII issued the papal bull Inter gravissimas to promulgate the Gregorian calendar, a modification of the Julian calendar in use since 45 BC.	unreferenced section
1822 – The first Swaminarayan temple, Swaminarayan Mandir in present-day Ahmedabad, India, was inaugurated.	date not cited
1831 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek between the Choctaw and the United States government, the first removal treaty carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act, was proclaimed.	date not cited
1848 – Amid a revolt, French King Louis-Philippe abdicated and escaped to England, leading to the creation of the French Second Republic.	needs more footnotes
1875 – The steamship SS Gothenburg hit a section of the Great Barrier Reef and sank northwest of Holbourne Island, resulting in more than 98 deaths.	refimprove
1920 – At a meeting of the German Workers' Party, Adolf Hitler outlined its 25-point programme and the party changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party.	refimprove section
1942 – World War II: The Canadian government ordered the removal of "all persons of Japanese origin" to internment camps	refimprove section
1942 – World War II: Eyewitness reports of unidentified flying objects over Los Angeles triggered a massive anti-aircraft artillery barrage under the belief it was a Japanese attack.	Excessive quotation banner
1944 – World War II: The United States Army long-range penetration special operations unit known as Merrill's Marauders began a 1,000-mile (1,600-km) march over the Patkai region of the Himalayas and into the Burmese jungle behind Japanese lines.	unreferenced section
1946 – Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, was elected to his first term as President of Argentina.	refimprove section
1999 – Arizona executed German national Karl LaGrand.	needs more footnotes
2006 – Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared a state of emergency in an attempt to subdue a possible military coup.	refimprove
2022 – Russian forces launched an invasion of Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.	Orange "needs expansion" banner
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola |b|1463	refimprove section
Francis, Duke of Guise |d|1563	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
Arcangela Tarabotti |b|1604|	Too much uncited, including large block quote
Marc-Antoine Charpentier |d|1704|	Too much uncited, mostly a list of his works.
Lydia Becker |b|1827|	Birthday not cited
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz |b|1885	refimprove section
Steve Jobs |b|1955	lots of PN tags (30)

Eligible

• 303 – The Diocletianic Persecution, the last and most severe episode of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, began with the publication of a first edict by Roman emperor Diocletian.
• 1607 – Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, considered the first fully developed opera, premiered in Mantua.
• 1720 – War of the Quadruple Alliance: Spanish forces began a failed assault on the British settlement of Nassau in the Bahamas.
• 1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional for the first time, forming the basis of judicial review in the United States.
• 1809 – After standing for only 15 years, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (pictured), the third building in London of that name, burned down.
• 1826 – The Treaty of Yandabo was signed, ending the First Anglo-Burmese War, the longest and most expensive war in the history of British India.
• 1868 – Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. president to be impeached.
• 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kasserine Pass, the first major engagement between American and Axis forces in Africa, ended with the Allied forces suffering heavy losses.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Led by Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese forces recaptured the citadel of Huế.
• 1978 – Five men disappeared after attending a college basketball game in Chico, California; the bodies of four of them were discovered months later.
• 2015 – At a restaurant in Uherský Brod, Czech Republic, a gunman opened fire in a restaurant, killing eight people before committing suicide.
• Born/died: | Ibn Battuta |b|1304| Properzia de' Rossi |d|1530| Edmund Andros |d|1714| Carlo Buonaparte |d|1785| Leo von Caprivi |b|1831| Denis Law |b|1940| Alain Prost |b|1955| Risa Hontiveros |b|1966

Notes

• Internment of Japanese Americans appears on February 19, so Japanese Canadians should not appear in the same year
• People Power Revolution appears on February 25, so 2006 Philippine emergency should not appear in the same year

February 24: Lantern Festival in China (2024); Independence Day in Estonia

George Frideric Handel

• 1711 – Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel (pictured), the first Italian-language opera written specifically for the London stage, premiered.
• 1809 – Napoleonic Wars: French admiral Villaret de Joyeuse unconditionally surrendered to the British, which ended the British invasion of Martinique and began a five-year occupation of the island.
• 1979 – Uganda–Tanzania War: Ugandan government forces fled Masaka, Uganda, as the Tanzania People's Defence Force bombarded and captured the town.
• 1989 – United Airlines Flight 811 experienced uncontrolled decompression after leaving Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii, blowing seats out of the aircraft and killing nine passengers.

• Æthelberht of Kent (d. 616)
• Judah Folkman (b. 1933)
• Nina Simonovich-Efimova (d. 1948)
• Leo Ornstein (d. 2002)

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• February 24
• February 25