📜 This Day in History
February 24
303The 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.- 1720War of the Quadruple Alliance: Spanish forces began a failed assault on the British settlement of Nassau in the Bahamas.
- 1809Napoleonic Wars: The British invasion of Martinique ended with the unconditional surrender of French admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, beginning a five-year occupation of the island.
- 1868Andrew Johnson became the first U.S. president to be impeached.
- 1978Five men disappeared after attending a college basketball game in Chico, California; the bodies of four of them were discovered months later.
- 2015At a restaurant in Uherský Brod, Czech Republic, a gunman opened fire in a restaurant, killing eight people before committing suicide.
