On This Day for February 24 - U.S. President Andrew Johnson impeached, Charles V is featured, and more

Created: 2020-02-24 11:02 Updated: 2020-02-24 11:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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February 24

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

1500

Charles V

Andrew Johnson; photo from the Brady-Handy Collection.

FEATURED EVENT

1868

U.S. President Andrew Johnson impeached

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2014: American filmmaker and actor Harold Ramis—who ushered in a racy and raucous brand of comedy notably as the scriptwriter of such movie classics as Caddyshack (1980; his directorial debut) and Ghostbusters (1984)—died in Chicago.

1955: American businessman Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Inc. and a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer era, was born. [ Take our quiz about tech companies .]

1836: American painter Winslow Homer, who captured the interaction of humans and nature in his watercolours, was born in Boston. [ Test your knowledge of artists .]

U.S. Marines entering Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War, February 1991.

1991: U.S. ground operations began in the Persian Gulf War, more than a month after an air war was launched against Iraq to free Iraqi-occupied Kuwait. [ Read about the conflict's key events in our timeline .]

1976: The regime of Fidel Castro adopted the constitution of Cuba, which mandated the operation of only one political party—the Communist Party of Cuba. [ Discover six interesting facts about Castro .]