Today in History - History - February 24th

1510Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice

200880th Academy Awards - "No Country for Old Men," Daniel Day-Lewis & Marion Cotillard win

1924Mahatma Gandhi released from jail

1996Meg Mallon wins LPGA Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open

1997Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th)

1990Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiia Ladies Golf Open

1208St Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy

1981Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer

1987LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point

1711Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres at Haymarket theatre in London

1956Eddie Murray, Los Angeles California, 1st baseman (Orioles, Dodgers, Cleve Indians)

1874Honus Wagner, Chartiers Pennsylvana, HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17)

1786Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)

1885Chester Nimitz, US admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WW II)

1955Steve Jobs, San Francisco, California, American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple (d. 2011)

1950George Thorogood, Wilmington, Delaware, American singer and guitarist (The Delaware Destroyers-Bad to the Bone)

1989Film director Tim Burton (30) weds photographer Lena Gieseke

1662English Poet and author of "Paradise Lost" John Milton marries 3rd wife Elizabeth Mynshull, 31 years his junior.

1992Singer-songwriter Courtney Love (27) weds lead singer Kurt Cobain (25) on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii

1985NFL quarterback Joe Montana (28) weds actress and model Jennifer Wallace

1979NBA player Bill Walton (26) weds Susan Guth

1999Bollywood actor Ajay Devgan (29) weds actress Kajol Mukherjee (24) on a traditional Maharashtrian style ceremony in Juhu, Varsha

2007Former world champion track and field athlete Marion Jones (31) weds Olympic bronze medalist Obadele Thompson (30) at the Union Hill African Methodist Episcopal Church in Wilson's Mills, North Carolina

1886Inventor Thomas Edison (38) marries 2nd wife Mina Miller (20) in Akron Ohio.

1986Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "Father of Medicare", dies of cancer at 81

1990Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70