February 24: Independence Day in Estonia (1918)
The Burning of Drury Lane Theatre from Westminster Bridge by Thomas Luny
- 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian's first "Edict against the Christians" was published, beginning the Diocletianic Persecution, the last and most severe episode of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.
- 1809 – After standing only 15 years, London's Drury Lane theatre, the third building of that name, burned down (pictured).
- 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.
Arcangela Tarabotti (b. 1604) · Thomas Bowdler (d. 1825) · Alain Prost (b. 1955)
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