Infopedia: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.
 * 1711 – George Frideric Handel's Rinaldo, the first Italian-language opera written specifically for the London stage, premiered.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 1942 – World War II: Eyewitness reports of unidentified flying objects over Los Angeles triggered a massive anti-aircraft artillery barrage under the belief it was a Japanese attack.
 * 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.
 * 1989 – United Airlines Flight 811 experienced uncontrolled decompression after leaving Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii, blowing seats out of the aircraft and killing nine passengers.
 * 2022 – Russian forces launched an invasion of Ukraine in an escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict.
 * Born/died: | Æthelberht of Kent |d|616| Properzia de' Rossi |d|1530| Arcangela Tarabotti |b|1604| Marc-Antoine Charpentier |d|1704| Lydia Becker |b|1827| Leo von Caprivi |b|1831| Judah Folkman |b|1933| Denis Law |b|1940| Alain Prost |b|1955| Leo Ornstein |d|2002