Today’s highlight

On Feb. 24, 1942, the SS Struma, a charter ship attempting to carry nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Romania to British-mandated Palestine, was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine in the Black Sea; all but one of the refugees perished.

On this date

1803: In its Marbury v. Madison decision, the Supreme Court established judicial review of the constitutionality of statutes.

1868: The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson by a vote of 126-47 following his attempted dismissal of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Johnson was later acquitted by the Senate.

1986: The Supreme Court struck down, 6-3, an Indianapolis ordinance that would have allowed women injured by someone who had seen or read pornographic material to sue the maker or seller of that material.

1993: Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney resigned after more than eight years in office.

2015: The Justice Department announced that George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in a 2012 confrontation, would not face federal charges.

2020: Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted in New York on charges of rape and sexual assault involving two women.