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YEAR 2008 Sunday February 24
Raul Castro succeeds her Fidel brother with the cuban report heading
- - elected official for a five years mandate to the presidency of Cuba
- - Raul Castro - 76 years old - the interim of the cuban presidency had ensured for 19 month
YEAR 2008 Sunday February 24
Presentation of the 80e ceremony of the Oscars
- - behaviour with the Kodak theatre of Los Angeles
- - animated by Jon Stewart
better (E):
- - film: “No Country for Old Men”
- - realizer: “Joel Coen and Ethan Coen” No Country for Old Men
- - actor: “Daniel Day-Lewis” There will Be Blood
- - actress: “Marion Cotillard” bed of roses
- - male supporting role: “Javier Bardem” No Country for Old Men
- - female supporting role: “Tilda Swinton” Michael Clayton
- - foreign film: “The Counterfeiters”
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YEAR 2008 Sunday February 24
Death of Denis Lazure at the 82 years age
- - Québécois doctor and politician born on October 12, 1925 with Napierville
- - founder of the department of child psychiatry of the Holy-Justine hospital in 1957 - he was the director of 1957 to 1969 -
- - president of the Association of the psychiatrists of Canada in 1966 and 1967
- - managing director of the hospital River-of-Meadows of 1969 to 1975
- - director of the Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine hospital of 1975 to 1976
- - elected official in the district of Chambly in November 1976
- - Minister for the social Affairs of Quebec of 1976 to 1981
- - minister of state with the Social development of 1981 until September 9, 1982
- - he resigns of the Council of Ministers in December 1984 - in dissension with the beautiful risk of the chief Rene Lévesque -
- - it returns in policy in 1989 - appointed elected official of Laprairie -
- - he resigns in January 1996
- - general president-director of the Office of the handicapped people of 1996 to 1999
- - president of the Committee of support to the Orphans of Duplessis of 1999 to 2001
- - member elect of the price Heinz E. Lehmann in June 2004 - for its contribution to the advance and the radiation of the profession -
- - deceased of the continuations of one cancer at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital of Montreal
YEAR 2007 Saturday February 24
Japan carries out the launching of a satellite radar spy and an experimental satellite
- - carried out by the shooting of a rocket “H2A” on the basis of space Tanegashima - south of Japan -
- - it is about the fourth spy satellite placed in orbit by Japan
- - one of the two satellites will make it possible Japan to supervise the nuclear activities of the North Korea
YEAR 2006 Friday February 24
iTunes announces the sale on line of its billionth song
- - the purchaser is Alex Ostrovsky, of Michigan, which bought “Speed off Sound” of Coldplay
- - iTunes opened its online store in 2003
- - to date, 3 million songs is sold each day by iTunes
YEAR 2004 Tuesday February 24
Earthquake in the North of Morocco
- - approximately 450 dead
- - more than 200 damaged dwellings
- - magnitude of 6,3 degrees on the scale of Richter
- - epicentre in the commune of Has Kamra, in the Al province Hoceïma (Mediterranean coast of Morocco)
- - touched localities: Has Kamar, Imrabten, Imzouren, Béni Abdallah and Has Youssef Ouali
YEAR 2003 Monday February 24
Earthquake in the west of Xinjiang (north-western of China) - - 268 dead
- - 6,8 on the scale of Richter
YEAR 1998 February 24
The film “Titanic” of the Canadian realizer “James Cameron” becomes number 1 with the box world office
- - receipts of 918 million dollars
- - announces made by Twentieth Century Fox
- - the old record was held by “Jurassic Park”
YEAR 1989 February 24
Burial of the emperor from Japan Hirohito in Tokyo in Japan
- - representatives of 163 countries attend the funeral
- - deceased on January 7, 1989
YEAR 1988 February 24
The tenor Luciano Pavarotti is entitled to 165 recalls of the public and is applauded during 67 minutes
- - for its role of Nemorini, in the opera “elixir of love” of Donizetti
- - presented to the Opera of Berlin
YEAR 1988 February 24
Alice Cooper announces her candidature for the post of governor of Arizona
YEAR 1983 February 24
A parliamentary commission étatsunienne declares that the internment in the United States of 120,000 Japanese during IIe World war was a measurement which was not justified
YEAR 1976 February 24
The Eagles Greatest Hits becomes the first album of the history to being certified platinum disc
- - the platinum disc represents sales of a million copies for an album
YEAR 1975 February 24
Death of Nicolaï Boulganine at the 89 years age
- - Prime Minister of the USSR of 1955 to 1958
YEAR 1963 February 24
Invention of the racket of tennis out of metal
YEAR 1955 February 24
Birth of Steve Jobs
- - president of Apple
YEAR 1955 February 24
Birth of the racing driver “Alain Prost”
YEAR 1897 February 24
Emil Berliner makes patent in Canada its invention of the gramophone and opens a factory in Montreal
YEAR 1662 February 24
Mgr of Laval threatens of excommunion people who will sell alcohol to the Indians
YEAR 1525 February 24
Death of Palice
- - French soldier and Marshal of France
- Being beaten until its death, of the soldiers said of him that “fifteen minutes before its death, it were still in life” thus creating the expression “Truth of Palice” used to indicate a naive obviousness
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DYNAMIC CALENDAR [Gregorian] from December 20, 1582 at December 31, 2499
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