Editing February 24 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[484]] &ndash; King [[Huneric]] of the Vandals replaces [[Nicene Christianity|Nicene]] bishops with [[Arianism|Arian]] ones, and banishes some to [[Corsica]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Nicolaye|first=Carla|chapter=Episcopal elections in 5th-century Vandal North Africa|title=Episcopal Elections in Late Antiquity|editor-last1=Leemans|editor-first1=Johan|editor-last2=Van Nuffelen|editor-first2=Peter|editor-last3=Keough|editor-first3=Shawn W.J.|editor-last4=Nicolaye|editor-first4=Carla|location=Berlin|publisher=De Gruyter|date=2011|isbn=9783110268553|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-AHXIJ_HZ0C|pages=393–395|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154101/https://books.google.com/books?id=y-AHXIJ_HZ0C|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1303]] &ndash; The English are defeated at the [[Battle of Roslin]], in the [[First War of Scottish Independence]].<ref>{{cite book|author=George W. Bartle|title=A Synopsis of English History ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vn0DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA92|year=1869|publisher=Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer|pages=92|access-date=2021-02-14|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154055/https://books.google.com/books?id=vn0DAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA92|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1386]] &ndash; King [[Charles III of Naples]] and Hungary is assassinated at [[Buda]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Lodge|first=Richard|title=The Close of the Middle Ages: 1273-1494|location=New York|publisher=Macmillan|date=1902|oclc=1020758127|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Yc1AQAAMAAJ|pages=154–155|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154058/https://books.google.com/books?id=-Yc1AQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1525]] &ndash; A [[House of Habsburg|Spanish-Austrian]] army defeats a French army at the [[Battle of Pavia]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jean Giono|title=Battle of Pavia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MsaqJQAACAAJ|date=August 1985|publisher=Peter Owen Limited|isbn=978-0-7206-0780-2|access-date=2021-02-14|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154051/https://books.google.com/books?id=MsaqJQAACAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1527]] &ndash; Coronation of [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand I]] as the king of Bohemia in [[Prague]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ferdinand I Holy Roman emperor|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-I-Holy-Roman-emperor|access-date=2020-09-10|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|archive-date=2018-09-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917182628/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-I-Holy-Roman-emperor|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1538]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Nagyvárad]] between Holy Roman Emperor [[Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand I]] and King [[John Zápolya]] of Hungary and Croatia.<ref>{{cite book|last=Moose|first=Christina J.|title=Great Events From History: The Renaissance and Early Modern Era, 1454-1600. Vol. 1: 1454—1532|location=Pasadena, Calif.|publisher=Salem Press|date=2005|isbn=9781587652141|page=446}}</ref>
*[[1582]] &ndash; With the [[papal bull]] ''[[Inter gravissimas]]'', [[Pope Gregory XIII]] announces the [[Gregorian calendar]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Wigelsworth|first=Jeffrey R.|title=Science and Technology in Medieval European Life|location=Westport, Conn.|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2006|isbn=9780313337543|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPDqnGGHpHYC|page=135|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154100/https://books.google.com/books?id=VPDqnGGHpHYC|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1597]] &ndash; The last battle of the [[Cudgel War]] takes place on the [[Santavuori Hill]] in [[Ilmajoki]], [[Ostrobothnia (historical province)|Ostrobothnia]].<ref>[https://ilmajoki.fi/asuminen-ja-ymparisto/puistot-ja-yleiset-alueet/jaakko-ilkan-leikkipuisto/nuijasota/ Nuijasota – Ilmajoki] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917021954/https://ilmajoki.fi/asuminen-ja-ymparisto/puistot-ja-yleiset-alueet/jaakko-ilkan-leikkipuisto/nuijasota/ |date=2021-09-17 }} (in Finnish)</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1607]] &ndash; ''[[L'Orfeo]]'' by [[Claudio Monteverdi]], one of the first works recognized as an [[opera]], receives its première performance.<ref>{{cite book|last=Calcagno|first=Mauro|title=From Madrigal to Opera: Monteverdi's Staging of the Self|location=Berkeley, Calif.|publisher=University of Californmia Press|date=2012|isbn=9780520951525|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jIc0uvCGOEsC|pages=16, 20|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154053/https://books.google.com/books?id=jIc0uvCGOEsC|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1711]] &ndash; ''[[Rinaldo (opera)|Rinaldo]]'' by [[George Frideric Handel]], the first Italian [[opera]] written for the London stage, is premièred.<ref>{{cite book|title= Handel's operas: 1704–1726|last= Dean|first= Winton|author2= Knapp, J Merrill|author-link2= J. Merrill Knapp|year= 1995|publisher= Oxford University Press|location= Oxford|isbn= 9780198164418|url-access= registration|url= https://archive.org/details/handelsoperas1700000dean|pages=182–183}}</ref>
*[[1739]] &ndash; [[Battle of Karnal]]: The army of [[History of Iran#Before the First World War|Iranian]] ruler [[Nader Shah]] defeats the forces of the [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] emperor of [[History of India#The Mughal era|India]], [[Muhammad Shah]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Watts|first=Tim J.|chapter=Delhi, Sack of|title=Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia|editor-last=Mikaberidze|editor-first=Alexander|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2011|isbn=9781598843361|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jBBYD2J2oE4C|pages=271–272|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2021-04-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411204001/https://books.google.com/books?id=jBBYD2J2oE4C|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1803]] &ndash; In ''[[Marbury v. Madison]]'', the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] establishes the principle of [[judicial review]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nowak|first1=John E.|last2=Rotunda|first2=Ronald D.|title=Constitutional Law|location=St. Paul, Minn.|publisher=Thomson/West|date=2004|isbn=9780314144522|pages=1–3}}</ref>
*[[1809]] &ndash; London's [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Drury Lane Theatre]] burns to the ground, leaving its owner, Irish writer and politician [[Richard Brinsley Sheridan]], destitute.<ref>{{cite book|author1=James Fullarton Arnott|author2=James F. Arnott|author3=John William Robinson|title=English Theatrical Literature, 1559-1900: A Bibliography; Incorporating Robert W. Lowe's 'A Bibliographical Account of English Theatrical Literature' Published in 1888|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a6YLAQAAIAAJ|year=1970|publisher=Society for Theatre Research|isbn=978-0-85430-000-6|page=135|access-date=2021-02-23|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154052/https://books.google.com/books?id=a6YLAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*1809   &ndash; [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] [[Invasion of Martinique (1809)|invades]] and captures the [[French colonial empire|French]] colony of [[Martinique]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=James |first1=William |title=The naval history of Great Britain during the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Vol. 5: 1808 – 1811 |last2=Lambert |first2=Andrew |date=2002 |publisher=Conway Maritime Press |isbn=978-0-85177-909-6 |edition=[Nachdr. der Ausg.] London 1837 |volume=5 |location=London |pages=209}}</ref>
*[[1812]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Paris (24 February 1812)|Treaty of Paris]] between [[Napoleon]] and [[Frederick William III of Prussia]] against Russia is signed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rowe |first=Michael |title=The Oxford handbook of the history of nationalism |date=7 March 2013 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-920919-4 |editor-last=Breuilly |editor-first=John |pages=140}}</ref>
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[Sinking of HMS Peacock]] by [[USS Hornet (1805)|USS Hornet]] on the [[Demerara River]], [[Guyana]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Roosevelt |first=Theodore |title=The Naval War of 1812 |date=1999-05-04 |publisher=[[Modern Library]] |isbn=978-0-375-75419-7 |edition=Reprint |series=Modern Library war |location=New York |pages=94–95}}</ref>
*[[1821]] &ndash; Final stage of the [[Mexican War of Independence]] from [[Spanish Empire|Spain]] with [[Plan of Iguala]].
*[[1822]] &ndash; The first [[Swaminarayan temple]] in the world, [[Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad]], is inaugurated.
*[[1826]] &ndash; The signing of the [[Treaty of Yandabo]] marks the end of the [[First Anglo-Burmese War]].
*[[1831]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek]], the first removal treaty in accordance with the [[Indian Removal Act]], is proclaimed.<ref>{{cite book|author=United States. Department of Justice|title=Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States: Advising the President and Heads of Departments in Relation to Their Official Duties|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CicrAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA452|year=1852|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=452|access-date=2021-02-23|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154053/https://books.google.com/books?id=CicrAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA452|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Choctaw]]s in [[Mississippi]] cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[List of French monarchs|King]] [[Louis-Philippe of France]] abdicates the throne.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sir Adolphus William Ward|author2=George Walter Prothero|author3=Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes|title=The Cambridge Modern History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jbc8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA101|year=1934|publisher=CUP Archive|pages=101|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154059/https://books.google.com/books?id=Jbc8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA101|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1854]] &ndash; A [[Penny Red]] with perforations becomes the first perforated [[postage stamp]] to be officially issued for distribution.<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Post, and Postal Service |volume= 22 |last= Ingram |first= Thomas Allan | pages = 176&ndash;196 see page 191 |quote= English Issues....Line-engraved Stamps....One Penny Stamp....Third issue, February 1854: small crown watermark... }}</ref> 
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Arizona]] is organized as a [[United States territory]].
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[Andrew Johnson]] becomes the first [[President of the United States]] to be [[Impeachment of Andrew Johnson|impeached]] by the [[United States House of Representatives]]. He is later acquitted in the [[United States Senate|Senate]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Floyd Millard Riddick|title=Procedure and Guidelines for Impeachment Trials in the United States Senate|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CZAzg2Ivkk4C&pg=PA3|year=1974|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=3|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154103/https://books.google.com/books?id=CZAzg2Ivkk4C&pg=PA3|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1875]] &ndash; 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.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Great Barrier Reef: A Guide to the Reef, Its Islands, and Resorts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KK4QAQAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Glenmede|isbn=978-0-7316-5785-8|page=20|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154104/https://books.google.com/books?id=KK4QAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; The stage première of ''[[Peer Gynt]]'', a play by [[Henrik Ibsen]] with incidental music by [[Edvard Grieg]], takes place in Christiania (Oslo), Norway.<ref>{{cite book|author=Edvard Grieg|title=Peer Gynt: suites nos. 1 and 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oCbnKHiV-wEC&pg=PP4|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-29582-4|pages=4|access-date=24 February 2021|archive-date=24 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154100/https://books.google.com/books?id=oCbnKHiV-wEC&pg=PP4|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Qing dynasty|China]] and [[Russian Empire|Russia]] sign the [[Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881)|Sino-Russian Ili Treaty]].
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Revolution]] breaks out in Baire, a town near [[Santiago de Cuba]], beginning the [[Cuban War of Independence]]; the war ends along with the [[Spanish–American War]] in 1898.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jan Knippers Black|title=Area Handbook for Cuba|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FH1EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37|year=1976|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=37|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154058/https://books.google.com/books?id=FH1EAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37|url-status=live}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1916]] &ndash; The [[Governor-General of Korea]] establishes a clinic called ''Jahyewon'' in [[Sorokdo]] to segregate [[Hansen's disease]] patients. 
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: The U.S. ambassador [[Walter Hines Page]] 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]] &ndash; [[Estonian Declaration of Independence]].<ref name="Aggression1954">{{cite book|author=United States Congress|title=Report of the Select Committee to Investigate Communist Aggression and the Forced Incorporation of the Baltic States into the U.S.S.R.: Third Interim Report of the Select Committee on Communist Aggression, House of Representatives, Eighty-third Congress, Second Session, Under Authority of H. Res. 346 and H. Res. 438|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-qo3U7wwQScC&pg=PA28|year=1954|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=28|access-date=2021-02-24|archive-date=2022-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224154058/https://books.google.com/books?id=-qo3U7wwQScC&pg=PA28|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1920]] &ndash; [[Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor|Nancy Astor]] becomes the first woman to speak in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]] following her [[1919 Plymouth Sutton by-election|election]] as a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) three months earlier.
*  1920 &ndash; The [[Nazi Party]] (NSDAP) was founded by [[Adolf Hitler]] in the [[Hofbräuhaus am Platzl|Hofbräuhaus]] beer hall in Munich, Germany.<ref>Some 2000 people attended the meeting at the [[Hofbrauhaus]]; Hitler offered the program point-by-point, to an approving crowd. {{cite book |last=Toland |first=John |author-link=John Toland (author) |title=Adolf Hitler |publisher=Doubleday & Company |year=1976 |isbn=0-385-03724-4 |location=New York |pages=94–98}}</ref>
*[[1942]] &ndash; Seven hundred ninety-one<ref>{{Cite web |title=Who Perished on the Struma |url=https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0140_Struma.html#P9 |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=jewishgen.org}}</ref> [[Romanian Jewish]] [[refugees]] and crew members are killed after the [[MV Struma]] is [[Struma disaster|torpedoed]] by the [[Soviet Navy]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1942-03-13 |title=THE STRUMA DISASTER|work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1942/03/13/archives/the-struma-disaster.html |access-date=2022-06-16 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Voyage of the Struma |url=https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/voyage-of-the-struma |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=encyclopedia.ushmm.org}}</ref>
*  1942 &ndash; The [[Battle of Los Angeles]]: A [[false alarm]] led to an anti-aircraft barrage that lasted into the early hours of February 25.
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[1943 Greek protests against labour mobilization|First large-scale protest march]] resulting in clashes with the Axis occupation forces and collaborationist police in Athens against rumours of forced mobilization of Greek workers for work in Germany.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mazower|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Mazower|title=Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941–44|year=1993|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-06552-3|location=New Haven and London | page=116}}</ref>
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Egypt]]ian Premier [[Ahmad Mahir Pasha]] is killed in [[Parliament of Egypt|Parliament]] after reading a decree.
*[[1946]] &ndash; Colonel [[Juan Perón]], founder of the political movement that became known as [[Peronism]], is [[Argentine general election, 1946|elected]] to his first term as [[List of Presidents of Argentina|President of Argentina]].
*[[1949]] &ndash; The [[1949 Armistice Agreements|Armistice Agreements]] are signed, to formally end the hostilities of the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War|1948 Arab-Israeli War]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/71260B776D62FA6E852564420059C4FE|title=S/1296 of 23 March 1949|date=2011-07-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726121052/http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/71260B776D62FA6E852564420059C4FE|access-date=2018-10-29|archive-date=2011-07-26}}</ref>
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[1966 Ghanaian coup d'état|Ghanaian coup d'état]] by National Liberation Council overthrows [[Kwame Nkrumah]]'s Government<ref>{{Cite book |last=Biney |first=Ama |author-link=Ama Biney|title=The Political and Social Thought of Kwame Nkrumah |date=24 March 2011 |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |isbn=9781349295135 |pages=2, 158}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rathbone |first=Richard |title=Nkrumah & the chiefs: The Politics of Chieftaincy in Ghana, 1951–1960 |date=30 June 2000 |publisher=[[Ohio University Press]] |isbn=978-0-8214-1305-0 |series=Western African studies |location=Athens, Ohio |pages=119}}</ref>
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Cultural Revolution]]: [[Zhang Chunqiao]] announces the dissolution of the [[Shanghai People's Commune]], replacing its local government with a [[Revolutionary committee (China)|revolutionary committee]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Meisner|first=Maurice|author-link=Maurice Meisner|title=Mao's China and After: A History of the People's Republic|year=1986|location=[[New York City|New York]]|publisher=[[Free Press (publisher)|Free Press]]|isbn=9780029208700|oclc=13270932|edition=3rd|url=https://libcom.org/library/maos-china-after-history-peoples-republic-maurice-meisner|pages=331|access-date=2021-07-23|archive-date=2021-08-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812035931/https://libcom.org/library/maos-china-after-history-peoples-republic-maurice-meisner|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: The [[Tet Offensive]] is halted; [[South Vietnam]]ese forces led by [[Ngo Quang Truong]] [[Battle of Hue|recapture]] the [[Citadel of Hue|citadel of Hué]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shulimson|first1=Jack|last2=Blasiol|first2=Leonard|last3=Smith|first3=Charles|last4=Dawson|first4=David|title=U.S. Marines in Vietnam: 1968, the Defining Year|publisher=History and Museums Division, USMC|year=1997|url=https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/US%20Marines%20In%20Vietnam%20The%20Defining%20Year%201968%20%20PCN%2019000313800.pdf|isbn=0160491258|pages=209–212|access-date=2021-01-02|archive-date=2020-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204084038/https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/US%20Marines%20In%20Vietnam%20The%20Defining%20Year%201968%20%20PCN%2019000313800.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1971]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; The [[Constitution of Cuba#1976 Constitution|1976 constitution of Cuba]] is formally proclaimed.
*[[1978]] &ndash; The [[Yuba County Five]] disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
*[[1981]] &ndash; The 6.7 {{M|s|link=y}} [[1981 Gulf of Corinth earthquakes|Gulf of Corinth earthquake]] affected [[Kentriki Ellada|Central Greece]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''). Twenty-two people were killed, 400 were injured, and damage totaled $812&nbsp;million.
*[[1983]] &ndash; A special commission of the [[United States Congress]] condemns the [[Japanese American internment]] during World War II.
*[[1984]] &ndash; [[Tyrone Mitchell]] perpetrates the 49th Street Elementary School shooting in Los Angeles, killing two children and injuring 12 more.
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[United Airlines Flight 811]], bound for New Zealand from [[Honolulu]], rips open during flight, blowing nine passengers out of the business-class section.<ref name="AAR-92-02 Final Report">{{cite web|url=https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR9202.pdf |title=Aircraft Accident Report, Explosive Decompression – Loss of Cargo Door in Flight, United Airlines Flight 811, Boeing 747-122, N4713U, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 24, 1989 |publisher=[[National Transportation Safety Board]] |date=March 18, 1992 |access-date=January 14, 2016}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Gulf War]]: Ground troops cross the [[Saudi Arabia]]n border and enter [[Iraq]], thus beginning the [[Gulf War#Ground campaign|ground phase]] of the war.
*[[1996]] &ndash; Two civilian airplanes operated by the [[Miami]]-based group [[Brothers to the Rescue]] are [[1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue aircraft|shot down]] in international waters by the [[Cuban Air Force]].
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509]], a [[Tupolev Tu-154]] aircraft, crashes in [[Rui'an]], [[Zhejiang]], China. All 61 people on board are killed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19990224-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev Tu-154M B-2622 Ruian|last=Ranter|first=Harro|website=aviation-safety.net|access-date=2020-02-13|archive-date=2019-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115061854/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19990224-0|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2004]] &ndash; The 6.3 {{M|w|link=y}} [[2004 Al Hoceima earthquake|Al Hoceima earthquake]] strikes northern [[Morocco]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of IX (''Violent''). At least 628 people are killed, 926 are injured, and up to 15,000 are displaced.
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[President of the Philippines|Philippine President]] [[Gloria Macapagal Arroyo]] declares [[Proclamation 1017]] placing the country in a [[2006 state of emergency in the Philippines|state of emergency]] in attempt to subdue a possible military coup.
*[[2007]] &ndash; Japan launches its fourth [[spy satellite]], stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as [[North Korea]].
*[[2008]] &ndash; [[Fidel Castro]] retires as the [[President of Cuba]] and the [[Council of Ministers (Cuba)|Council of Ministers]] after 32 years. He remained as head of the [[Communist Party of Cuba|Communist Party]] for another three years.
*[[2015]] &ndash; A [[Metrolink (California)|Metrolink]] train [[2015 Oxnard train derailment|derails]] in [[Oxnard, California]] following a collision with a truck, leaving more than 30 injured.
*[[2016]] &ndash; [[Tara Air Flight 193]], a [[de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter]] aircraft, crashed, with 23 fatalities, in [[Myagdi District|Solighopte, Myagdi District, Dhaulagiri Zone]], while en route from [[Pokhara Airport]] to [[Jomsom Airport]].
*[[2020]] &ndash; [[Mahathir Mohamad]] resigns as [[Prime Minister of Malaysia]] following an attempt to replace the [[Pakatan Harapan]] government, which triggered the [[2020–2022 Malaysian political crisis|2020-2022 Malaysian political crisis]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-02-24 |title=Mahathir Mohamad: Malaysian prime minister in shock resignation|publisher=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51610974 |access-date=2022-04-12}}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Russo-Ukrainian War]]: Days after [[Address concerning the events in Ukraine|recognising]] [[Donetsk People's Republic|Donetsk]] and [[Luhansk People's Republic|Luhansk]] as [[International recognition of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic|independent states]], Russian president [[Vladimir Putin]] [[On conducting a special military operation|orders]] a [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|full-scale invasion]] of [[Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60454795|title=Russia launches invasion of Ukraine|publisher=BBC News|date=24 February 2022|access-date=24 February 2022|archive-date=21 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221183326/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-europe-60454795|url-status=live}}</ref>