Harvey Weinstein convicted – Chicago Tribune

Today is Tuesday, February 24, the 55th day of the year 2026. There are 310 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On February 24, 2020, Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault in New York and taken to prison in handcuffs at a pivotal moment for the #MeToo movement. An appeals court later overturned the verdict and ordered a new trial, but Weinstein remained behind bars after other convictions.

Also on this date:

In 1803, in its historic decision Marbury v. Madison, the United States Supreme Court established the fundamental principle of judicial review of the constitutionality of laws and statutes.

In 1868, the United States House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson by a vote of 126 to 47 following his attempted impeachment of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate by a single vote.

In 1942, the SS Struma, a charter ship attempting to transport nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Romania to British Mandate Palestine, was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine in the Black Sea; all but one of the refugees died.

In 1981, a jury in White Plains, New York, found Jean Harris guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of “Scarsdale Diet” author Dr. Herman Tarnower. (Sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, Harris was pardoned by New York Governor Mario Cuomo in December 1992.)

In 1988, in a decision expanding legal protections against parody and satire, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned a $200,000 award that the Rev. Jerry Falwell had won against Hustler magazine and its publisher, Larry Flynt.

In 1991, the United States began its ground operations in the Gulf War by entering Iraqi-held Kuwait.

In 2008, the Cuban parliament named Raul Castro president, ending the nearly 50-year rule of his brother Fidel, who had announced days earlier that he would not run again. Raul Castro served as president until April 2018.

In 2011, Discovery, the world’s busiest spacecraft, went into orbit for the last time, heading to the International Space Station for a journey marking the beginning of the end of the shuttle era.