February 24
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February 24in history:
- 1991: The ground-war phase of the Persian Gulf War began at 4 a.m. (local time; it was 8 p.m. on February 23, EST); it featured a massively successful outflanking movement of the Iraqi forces and lasted exactly 100 hours.
- 1868: The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution for the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson; the vote was 126 to 47.
- 1863: Arizona was proclaimed a separate U.S. territory by President Abraham Lincoln, who hoped that the new territory's gold and silver would help pay for the Civil War.
- 1848: As the first of the Revolutions of 1848 turned into a major insurrection in Paris, the French king Louis Philippe abdicated his throne; the Orléanist monarchy ended with the proclamation of the Second Republic.
- 1803: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Marbury v. Madison; in what is generally regarded as the single most important opinion in the history of the Court, Chief Justice John Marshall asserted the power of judicial review.
