Today is Wednesday, February 24, the 55th day of 2010. There are 310 days left in the year.

On this date

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII issued a papal bull, or edict, outlining his calendar reforms. The Gregorian Calendar is the calendar in general use today.

In 1821, Mexican rebels proclaimed the "Plan de Iguala," their declaration of independence from Spain.

In 1868, the US House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate.

In 1920, the German Workers Party, which later became the Nazi Party, met in Munich to adopt its platform.

In 1946, Argentinian men went to the polls to elect Juan D. Peron their president.

In 1976, Isabel Peron was deposed in a bloodless coup; General Jorge Videla was named president of Argentina.

In 1980, Salvadorean Archbishop Oscar Romero was shot dead by a right-wing hit squad while preparing for mass in San Salvador.

In 1982, Lt. Gen. Mohammad Hossain Ershad declared himself leader of Bangladesh after a military coup.

In 1983, a congressional commission released a report condemning the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War as a "grave injustice".

In 1996, former Marxist military ruler Mathieu Kerekou was proclaimed winner of Benin's second multiparty presidential election.

Thought for Today

"It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring." — Alfred Adler, Austrian psychoanalyst (1870-1937).