Category: This Day In History February 24
Categories: This Day In History February
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This Day in History for February 24th
Historic Events:
- 1981: Raul Benavidez, Medal of Honor recipient on 24 Feb 1981. Vietnam veteran, WIA; 5 Purple Heart medals.
Famous Birthdays:
- 1500: King Charles V of Spain
- 1792: Bishop Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Bishop.
- 1885: Admiral Charles William Nimitz, a 5-star fleet commander in the US Navy.
- 1955: Steve Jobs, Founding member of Apple computers.
Famous Deaths:
- 1815: Robert Fulton, inventor of the the steamboat.
- 2006: Dennis Weaver, American actor.
- 2014: Harold Ramis, American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor.
- 2020: Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who calculated trajectories for NASA missions.
- 2020: David Roback, founder of the alternative rock band "Mazzy Star.
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Person Profiles (9)
Raul Benavidez
05 Aug 1935 Cuero, DeWitt County, Texas, USA - 29 Nov 1998
Creola (Coleman) Johnson
26 Aug 1918 White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier, West Virginia, United States - 24 Feb 2020
Robert Fulton
14 Nov 1765 Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - 24 Feb 1815
Charles Habsburg
24 Feb 1500 Ghent, Flanders, Belgium - 21 Sep 1558
Steven Jobs
24 Feb 1955 San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States - 05 Oct 2011
Chester Nimitz
24 Feb 1885 Gillespie, Texas, United States - 20 Feb 1966
Harold Ramis
21 Nov 1944 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States - 24 Feb 2014
Jonathan Wainwright
24 Feb 1792 Liverpool, Lancashire, England - 21 Sep 1854
William Weaver
04 Jun 1924 Joplin, Missouri, United States - 24 Feb 2006
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