TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Today is Tuesday, February 24, the 55th day of 2009. There are 310 days left in the year.

0303 _ First official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued

1582 _ Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar

1821 _ Mexico gains independence from Spain

1836 _ 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at the Alamo, lasts 13 days

1876 _ Henrik Ibsen's ``Peer Gynt" premieres in Oslo

1933 _ League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria

1946 _ Juan Peron elected President of Argentina

1974 _ East Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh

1977 _ President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights

1989 _ 150 million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found