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===1901–present=== *[[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 [[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]] – [[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]] – [[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 – 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]] – 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 – The [[Battle of Los Angeles]]: A [[false alarm]] led to an anti-aircraft barrage that lasted into the early hours of February 25. *[[1943]] – [[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]] – [[Egypt]]ian Premier [[Ahmad Mahir Pasha]] is killed in [[Parliament of Egypt|Parliament]] after reading a decree. *[[1946]] – 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]] – 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]] – [[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]] – [[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]] – [[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]] – 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]] – The [[Constitution of Cuba#1976 Constitution|1976 constitution of Cuba]] is formally proclaimed. *[[1978]] – The [[Yuba County Five]] disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later. *[[1981]] – 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 million. *[[1983]] – A special commission of the [[United States Congress]] condemns the [[Japanese American 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]] – [[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]] – [[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]] – 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]] – [[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]] – 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]] – [[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]] – 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]] 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]] – 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]] – [[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]] – [[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]] – [[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>
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