What happend on 24th February

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25.02
2002

2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah ends.

1999

A China Southern Airlines Tupolev TU-154 airliner crashes on approach to Wenzhou airport in eastern China killing 61.

1999

The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.

1996

The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church.

1995

The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.

1992

Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain marries Courtney Love.

1989

United Airlines Flight 811, bound forNew Zealand from Honolulu, Hawaii, rips open during flight, sucking 9 passengers out of the business-class section.

1989

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

1988

The Supreme Court of the United States sides with Larry Flynt's Hustler magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $200,000 for defamation.

1983

A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.