On This Day - February 24, A Shot Of History

1989 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US $3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ew3ycxZsZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v20VvP19kCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9JjtXAo5kk

1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPk8g6HbFNA

1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqNb2o3ubN4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV9kyocogKo

2008 Cuba's parliament named Raul Castro president, ending nearly 50 years of rule by his brother Fidel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Castro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiU_3XoSWhE

Produced by Meiqi AN