Today is Monday, February 24, the 55th day of 2014. There are 310 days left in the year.
303 ― First official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued
1821 ― Mexico gains independence from Spain
1836 ― 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at the Alamo, lasts 13 days
1917 ― Russian revolution breaks out
1923 ― Mass arrests in U.S. of Mafia
1933 ― League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
1946 ― Juan Peron elected President of Argentina
1982 ― Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92
1989 ― 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
1997 ― Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb. 19)