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Events on February 24

• 1525 In the Battle of Pavia, the troops of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, under the command of Georg von Frundsberg, defeat the troops of the French king Francis I and capture him.
• 1582 Pope Gregory XIII signs the papal bull Inter gravissimas introducing the Gregorian calendar.
• 1793 In the Mainz Republic, a French satellite republic, democratic elections are held for the Rhenish-German National Convention. It is the first parliament on German soil to be elected according to democratic principles. Only the male population is eligible to vote.
• 1848 The February Revolution ends the rule of the French Citizen King Louis Philippe of Orléans. He abdicates shortly after his prime minister François Guizot, to whom the saying Enrichissez-vous is attributed. The republic is then proclaimed.
• 1896 The French physicist Henri Becquerel presents his findings on ionizing radiation from uranium to the Académie des sciences.
• 1971 In its Mephisto decision, the German Federal Constitutional Court rules that the ban on Klaus Mann's book Mephisto: The Saga of a Career was lawful and thereby delivers a landmark ruling on artistic freedom and general personality rights.
• 1975 The British rock band Led Zeppelin releases their first double album Physical Graffiti on Swan Song Records. It is widely regarded as the band's final high point.
• 1987 The supernova 1987A is discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is the first supernova since 1604 that can be observed with the naked eye.
• 1991 The United States Army begins the ground war of Operation Desert Storm during the Second Gulf War.
• 2008 At the 2008 Academy Awards, the Austrian-German feature film The Counterfeiters, by Stefan Ruzowitzky and about the National Socialist Operation Bernhard during World War II, receives the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.
• 2011 The Discovery is on its way into space for the last time. The space shuttle lifts off at 22:53 CET, and thus a few minutes later than planned, from Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida.
• 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine begins with simultaneous attacks from the south, east, and north.

Born on February 24

• 1871 Hedwig Dransfeld, German women's rights advocate and politician
• 1903 Franz Burda, German publisher, founder of the Burda publishing house
• 1912 Ulrich de Maizière, German officer, Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, one of the fathers of civilian control of the armed forces
• 1922 Richard Hamilton, British painter and graphic artist
• 1932 Michel Legrand, French composer and pianist
• 1950 George Thorogood, American blues rock musician
• 1961 Erna Solberg, Norwegian politician
• 1971 Moses Pelham, German rapper
• 1981 Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player
• 1981 Georg Späth, German ski jumper

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „24. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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