786 - Pepin the Short of Gaul dies. His dominio divided between his sons Charles (Charle and Carloman.
1525 - In the first of the Franco-Habsburg Wars, Roman Emperor Charles V captures the F
Francis I at the Battle of Pavia, Italy.
1538 - Ferdinand of Hapsburg and John Zapolyai
kings of Hungary, conclude the peace of
Grosswardein.
1803 - Chief Justice John Marshall, by refusing the case of Marbury vs. Madison, asserts
authority of the judicial branch.
1813 Off Guiana, the American sloop Hornet si
British sloop Peacock .
1821 Mexico gains independence from Spain .
1836 Some 3,000 Mexicans launch an assault
the Alamo with its 182 Texan defenders.
1895 The Cuban War of Independence begins.
1908 Japan officially agrees to restrict emigrati
U.S.
1912 Italy bombs Beirut in the first act of war a
Ottoman Empire.
1912 The Jewish organization Hadassah is fou
New York City.
1914 Civil War soldier Joshua Chamberlain die
1916 A film version of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Le
Under the Sea opens in New York.
1921 Herbert Hoover becomes Secretary of Co
1928 The New Gallery of New York exhibits wo
Archibald Motley, its first show to feature
artist.
1944 Merrill’s Marauders, a specially trained g
American soldiers, begin their ground ca
against Japan into Burma.
1945 U.S. forces liberate prisoners of war in th
Baños Prison in the Philippines.
1947 Franz von Papen is sentenced to eight ye
labor camp for war crimes.
1959 Khrushchev rejects the Western plan for t
Four meeting on Germany.
1968 North Vietnamese troops capture the imp
palace in Hue, South Vietnam .
1972 Hanoi negotiators walk out of the peace t
Paris to protest U.S. air raids on North Vi
1991 General Norman Schwarzkopf , command
coalition army, sends in ground forces du
Gulf War.
Born on February 24
1500 Charles V, king of Spain and the last Holy
Emperor to be crowned by the Pope.
1786 Wilhelm Carl Grimm, compiler, with his br
fairy tales.
1836 Winslow Homer, American painter.
1841 John Phillip Holland, inventor of the mode
submarine.
1874 Honus Wagner, baseball shortstop known
Flying Dutchman.”
1885 Chester Nimitz, U.S. admiral who comma
forces in the Pacific during WWII.
1887 Mary Ellen Chase, New England writer.
1909 August Derleth, writer (Still is the Summe
The Shield of the Valiant ).
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