February 24th
Today in America's Present Past
1721 | Politician and physician John McKinly was born.
1779 | War of Independence: George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes from England.
1781 | War of Independence: Pyle’s Massacre.
1803 | SCOTUS: Court decides Marbury v. Madison decided.
1815 | Entrepreneur Robert Fulton died.
1836 | Painter Winslow Homer was born.
1863 | Civil War: Confederate forces raid Brentwood, Tennessee.
1864 | Civil War: Battle of Tunnel Hill, Georgia.
1868 | First U.S. parade features “floats” in Mobile, Alabama, for Mardi Gras.
1868 | POTUS: U.S. House votes to impeach President Andrew Johnson.
1881 | Construction on the Panama Canal begins.
1885 | Admiral Chester Nimitz was born.
1886 | Thomas Edison weds Mina Miller.
1893 | Congress: Established the charter for the American University in Washington, D.C.
1899 | Western Washington University is established.
1913 | Economist Richard M. Goodwin was born.
1921 | Actor Abe Vigoda was born.
1930 | SCOTUS: Justice Charles Evans Hughes was sworn in.
1938 | Entrepreneur Phil Knight was born.
1942 | WWII: The Battle of Los Angeles, a literal panic attack of an entire city.
1942 | Politician Joe Lieberman was born.
1947 | Actor Edward James Olmos was born.
1955 | Entrepreneur Steve Jobs was born.
1966 | Actor Billy Zane was born.
1968 | Vietnam War: U.S. forces recapture Hue, Vietnam.
1972 | Priscilla and Elvis Presley separate.
1977 | POTUS: Democrat President Jimmy Carter decreed that foreign aid should consider human rights.
1977 | Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1983 | Congress: A committee report condemns the U.S. policy of Japanese-American internment during WWII.
1990 | Publisher Malcolm Forbes died.
1991 | Gulf War: Operation Desert Sabre, the ground invasion, begins.
1994 | Entertainer Dinah Shore died.
2020 | Author Clive Cussler died.