MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · February 24
THE DAY IN HISTORY · FEBRUARY 24
February 24 in history
1582
Pope Gregory XIII reforms the calendar; ten days will vanish that October. Britain holds out for another 170 years.
1848 — February 1848
22–24 Feb 1848 — Paris rises again; Louis-Philippe abdicates; the Second Republic decrees universal male suffrage. The news sets a continent alight within weeks.
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1966 — Nkrumah overthrown
24 Feb 1966 — While Ghana’s president is in Beijing, the army and police seize power. The independence hero becomes the emblem of a new pattern: by 1970 the continent has seen more than forty coups.
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