February 24

On This Day In History
	1868: U.S. President Andrew Johnson impeached On this day in 1868, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 126–47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson, whose lenient Reconstruction policies regarding the South after the Civil War angered Radical Republicans in Congress.
Andrew Johnson
Biography Of The Day
	Charles V Born this day in 1500, Charles V, who reigned as Holy Roman emperor, king of Spain, and archduke of Austria, long struggled to preserve a Spanish and Habsburg empire that reached across Europe to Spanish America.
Charles V, oil on canvas by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio), c. 1548; in the Alte Pinakothek
More Events On This Day In History
1991	1991 U.S. ground operations began in the Persian Gulf War, more than a month after an air war was launched against Iraq to free Iraqi-occupied Kuwait.
	1976 The regime of Fidel Castro adopted the constitution of Cuba, which mandated the operation of only one political party—the Communist Party of Cuba.
1942	1942 The Voice of America made its first broadcast, in German, to counter the propaganda of Nazi leaders.
1848	1848 The antimonarchal Revolutions of 1848 reached France, the one nation where the insurgency was successful.
1821	1821 Agustín de Iturbide made an appeal for an independent Mexico in the Iguala Plan.
1803	1803 In Marbury v. Madison, the U.S. Supreme Court declared an act of Congress unconstitutional, thus establishing the doctrine of judicial review.
	1739 The Battle of Karnal pitted the invading forces of Nadir Shah of Iran against Muhammad Shah, Mughal emperor of India.
1525	1525 The forces of the Habsburg emperor Charles V annihilated the army of Francis I of France at the Battle of Pavia.