Template:On this day/February 24

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

February 24:

• 1944 – Cooper Yates was born.
• 1976 – At a demonstration protesting the Escambia County Sheriff's Department's refusal to discipline Deputy Doug Raines for killing a black motorist, a race riot erupted, resulting in the arrest of civil rights leaders B. J. Brooks and H. K. Matthews.