Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 24

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 * 303 – The Diocletianic Persecution, the last and most severe episode of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, began with the publication of a first edict by Roman emperor Diocletian.
 * 1607 – Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, considered the first fully developed opera, premiered in Mantua.
 * 1720 – War of the Quadruple Alliance: Spanish forces began a failed assault on the British settlement of Nassau in the Bahamas.
 * 1803 – In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional for the first time, forming the basis of judicial review in the United States.
 * 1809 – After standing for only 15 years, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (pictured), the third building in London of that name, burned down.
 * 1826 – The Treaty of Yandabo was signed, ending the First Anglo-Burmese War, the longest and most expensive war in the history of British India.
 * 1868 – Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. president to be impeached.
 * 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kasserine Pass, the first major engagement between American and Axis forces in Africa, ended with the Allied forces suffering heavy losses.
 * 1968 – Vietnam War: Led by Ngô Quang Trưởng, South Vietnamese forces recaptured the citadel of Huế.
 * 1978 – Five men disappeared after attending a college basketball game in Chico, California; the bodies of four of them were discovered months later.
 * 2015 – At a restaurant in Uherský Brod, Czech Republic, a gunman opened fire in a restaurant, killing eight people before committing suicide.
 * Born/died: | Ibn Battuta |b|1304| Properzia de' Rossi |d|1530| Edmund Andros |d|1714| Carlo Buonaparte |d|1785| Leo von Caprivi |b|1831| Denis Law |b|1940| Alain Prost |b|1955| Risa Hontiveros |b|1966