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What happend on 28. February in History
In our data base we found 349 events happened on 28. February:
• 1155: Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (d. 1183) [category: Births]
• 1261: Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (d. 1283) [category: Births]
• 1261: Henry III, Duke of Brabant (b. c.1230s|1230) [category: Deaths]
• 1326: Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290) [category: Deaths]
• 1453: Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400) [category: Deaths]
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• 1485: Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441) [category: Deaths]
• 1510: Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer [category: Deaths]
• 1525: Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan (b. c. 1495) [category: Deaths]
• 1525: The Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed by Hernán Cortés's forces. [category: Events]
• 1533: Michel de Montaigne, French writer (d. 1592) [category: Births]
• 1552: Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker (d. 1632) [category: Births]
• 1572: Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505) [category: Deaths]
• 1573: Elias Holl, German Architect (d. 1646) [category: Births]
• 1612: John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686) [category: Births]
• 1616: Kaspar Förster, German singer and composer (d. 1673) [category: Births]
• 1619: Giuseppe Felice Tosi, singer, organist and composer (d. 1693) [category: Births]
• 1621: Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590) [category: Deaths]
• 1638: The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh. [category: Events]
• 1648: King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (b. 1577) [category: Deaths]
• 1670: Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737) [category: Births]
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• 1675: Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726) [category: Births]
• 1683: René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757) [category: Births]
• 1700: Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar. [category: Events]
• 1704: Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760) [category: Births]
• 1710: In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil. [category: Events]
• 1712: Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759) [category: Births]
• 1714: Gioacchino Conti, Italian soprano castrato (d. 1761) [category: Births]
• 1724: George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal (d. 1807) [category: Births]
• 1746: Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660) [category: Deaths]
• 1784: John Wesley charters the Methodist Church. [category: Events]
• 1786: John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713) [category: Deaths]
• 1788: Thomas Cushing, American politician (b. 1725) [category: Deaths]
• 1811: Cry of Asencio, beginning of the Uruguayan War of Independence [category: Events]
• 1812: Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author (d. 1882) [category: Births]
• 1820: John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1823: Ernest Renan, French philosopher (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1824: Blondin, French tightrope walker (d. 1897) [category: Births]
• 1827: Édouard-Charles Fabre, Archbishop of Montreal (d. 1896) [category: Births]
• 1827: The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight. [category: Events]
• 1833: Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1836: Friedrich August Grotefend, German philogist (b. 1798) [category: Deaths]
• 1838: Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910) [category: Births]
• 1838: Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec) [category: Events]
• 1840: Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1841: Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1844: A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members. [category: Events]
• 1849: Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor. [category: Events]
• 1851: Samuel W. McCall, American politician (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1854: The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin. [category: Events]
• 1857: André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1858: Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor, theatre director (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1860: Basil Spalding de Garmendia, American tennis player (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1865: Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1869: Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer and poet (b. 1790) [category: Deaths]
• 1870: The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire. [category: Events]
• 1873: William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish 1st Officer on the RMS Titanic (d.1912) [category: Births]
• 1876: John Alden Carpenter, American composer (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1878: Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1878: Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1881: Fernand Sanz, French racing cyclist (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1882: Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1882: José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1882: Pádraic Ó Conaire, Irish writer (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1883: The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts. [category: Events]
• 1885: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.) [category: Events]
• 1891: George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820) [category: Deaths]
• 1893: Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1893: The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched. [category: Events]
• 1894: Ben Hecht, American playwright (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1895: Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and film director (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1896: Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1897: Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force. [category: Events]
• 1900: Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1900: The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted. [category: Events]
• 1901: Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1903: Vincente Minnelli, American film director (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1906: Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1907: Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1908: Alexander Golitzen, American art director (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1908: Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1909: Stephen Spender, English poet (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1911: Otakar Vávra, Czech film director (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1912: Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1913: George Finnegan, American boxer (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1914: The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania. [category: Events]
• 1915: Ketti Frings, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1915: Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1915: Zero Mostel, American actor (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1916: Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1916: Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist [category: Births]
• 1916: Henry James, American writer (b. 1843) [category: Deaths]
• 1917: Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director and producer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1917: Odette Laure, French actress and singer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1918: Alfred Burke, Englis actor (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1920: Jadwiga Piłsudska, Polish aviatro, Józef Piłsudski's daughter [category: Births]
• 1921: Pierre Clostermann, French pilot (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1922: Joyce Howard, British actress (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1922: The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. [category: Events]
• 1923: Charles Durning, American actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1925: Harry H Corbett, English actor (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1925: Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1926: Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet daughter of Joseph Stalin (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1928: Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and producer (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1928: C.V. Raman discovers Raman effect. [category: Events]
• 1929: Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect [category: Births]
• 1929: Hayden Fry, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1929: John Montague, Irish poet [category: Births]
• 1929: Joseph Rouleau, Canadian bass opera singer [category: Births]
• 1929: Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: Bruce Dawe, Australian poet [category: Births]
• 1930: Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1931: Dean Smith, American basketball coach [category: Births]
• 1931: Gavin MacLeod, American actor [category: Births]
• 1931: Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician, 13th President of Bangladesh (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1932: Don Francks, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1932: Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1933: Miro Steržaj, Slovenian 9-pin bowler [category: Births]
• 1933: Rein Taagepera, Estonian politician [category: Births]
• 1933: Robert Grondelaers, Belgian cyclist (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1933: Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire. [category: Events]
• 1934: Willie Bobo, American jazz percussionist (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1935: Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847). [category: Deaths]
• 1935: DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon. [category: Events]
• 1936: Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Kamala Nehru, wife of Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Foge Fazio, American college football coach (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1938: Mike Wofford, American composer and jazz pianist [category: Births]
• 1939: Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan Buddhist meditation instructor (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1939: Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1939: John Fahey, American steel-string acoustic guitarist (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1939: Tommy Tune, American dancer [category: Births]
• 1939: The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation. [category: Events]
• 1940: Joe South, American singer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1940: Mario Andretti, Italian-American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1940: Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden). [category: Events]
• 1941: Suzanne Mubarak, former First Lady of Egypt [category: Births]
• 1941: King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1942: Dino Zoff, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1942: Frank Bonner, American actor [category: Births]
• 1942: Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: The heavy cruiser USS Houston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men. [category: Events]
• 1943: Archbishop Jovan VI of Ohrid, Macedonian cleric [category: Births]
• 1943: Barbara Acklin, American singer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1943: Charles Bernstein, American composer [category: Births]
• 1944: Kelly Bishop, American actress [category: Births]
• 1944: Sepp Maier, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1944: Win Aung, Burmese politician [category: Births]
• 1945: Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1945: Mimsy Farmer, American actress [category: Births]
• 1946: Don Francisco, American songwriter and musician [category: Births]
• 1946: Robin Cook, English politician (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1947: Stephanie Beacham, English actress [category: Births]
• 1947: 228 massacre: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of estimated 30,000 civilians. [category: Events]
• 1948: Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1948: Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo littérateur and religious figure (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1948: Mercedes Ruehl, American actress [category: Births]
• 1948: Mike Figgis, English director [category: Births]
• 1948: Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1949: Ilene Graff, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1951: Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1951: Jim Wohlford, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1951: Karsan Ghavri, Indian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1951: Roseanna Vitro, American jazz singer and educator [category: Births]
• 1952: William Finn, American composer [category: Births]
• 1953: Ingo Hoffmann, Brazilian racing driver [category: Births]
• 1953: Paul Krugman, American economist, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1953: Ricky Steamboat, American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1953: James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2). [category: Events]
• 1954: Brian Billick, American football coach [category: Births]
• 1954: Manuel Torres Félix, Mexican drug trafficker (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1954: The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public. [category: Events]
• 1955: Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1956: Adrian Dantley, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1956: Guy Maddin, Canadian film director [category: Births]
• 1956: Jimmy Nicholl, Canadian-born Northern Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1956: Mike Tenay, American wrestling commentator [category: Births]
• 1956: Emile Buisson, French murderer (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Ainsley Harriott, British celebrity chef [category: Births]
• 1957: Cindy Wilson, American singer (The B-52's) [category: Births]
• 1957: John Turturro, American actor [category: Births]
• 1957: Paul Delph, American musician and producer (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1958: David R. Ross, Scottish historian and writer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1958: Ginette Harrison, British mountaineer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1958: Jack Abramoff, American businessman, political figure and convict [category: Births]
• 1958: Jeanne Mas, French singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1958: Natalya Estemirova, Russian activist (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1958: A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and 26 children die in what remains on of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. [category: Events]
• 1959: Maxwell Anderson, American playwright (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. It failed to achieve orbit. [category: Events]
• 1960: Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1961: Barry McGuigan, Irish boxer [category: Births]
• 1961: Eric Bachelart, Belgian racing driver [category: Births]
• 1961: Mark Latham, Australian politician [category: Births]
• 1961: Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1961: René Simard, Canadian singer and TV host [category: Births]
• 1963: Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1963: Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist [category: Births]
• 1964: Fernando del Valle, American tenor [category: Births]
• 1964: Lotta Lotass, Swedish writer [category: Births]
• 1965: Park Gok-ji, South Korean film editor [category: Births]
• 1966: Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer [category: Births]
• 1966: Jonathan Hale, Canadian-born actor (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Colin Cooper, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Stéphan Lebeau, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1969: Butch Leitzinger, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1969: Patrick Monahan, American singer (Train) [category: Births]
• 1969: Robert Sean Leonard, American actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Tor Øivind Ødegård, Norwegian middle distance runner [category: Births]
• 1970: Daniel Handler, American writer [category: Births]
• 1970: Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete [category: Births]
• 1971: Junya Nakano, Japanese composer [category: Births]
• 1971: Maxine Bahns, American actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Peter Stebbings, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Tristan Louis, American writer [category: Births]
• 1972: Rory Cochrane, American actor [category: Births]
• 1972: Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué. [category: Events]
• 1973: Eric Lindros, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1973: Masato Tanaka, Japanese professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1973: Nicolas Minassian, French racing driver [category: Births]
• 1974: Lee Carsley, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Moana Mackey, New Zealand politician [category: Births]
• 1974: Tangi Miller, American actress [category: Births]
• 1974: Bobby Bloom, American singer and songwriter (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Greg Simkins, American painter [category: Births]
• 1975: Mike Rucker, American football player [category: Births]
• 1975: In London an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people. [category: Events]
• 1976: Adam Pine, Australian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1976: Ali Larter, American actress and model [category: Births]
• 1976: Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Kaido Külaots, Estonian chess player [category: Births]
• 1977: Jason Aldean, American country singer [category: Births]
• 1977: Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, American actor (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Benjamin Raich, Austrian skier [category: Births]
• 1978: Jamaal Tinsley, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Jeanne Cherhal, French singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1978: Mariano Zabaleta, Argentine tennis player [category: Births]
• 1978: Yasir Hameed, Pakistani cricketer [category: Births]
• 1978: Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Ivo Karlović, Croatian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1979: Michael Bisping, English mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1979: Primož Peterka, Slovenian ski jumper [category: Births]
• 1979: Srikanth, South Indian film actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver [category: Births]
• 1979: Paul Alverdes, German writer (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Bada, South Korean singer [category: Births]
• 1980: Christian Poulsen, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Esquerdinha, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Lucian Bute, Romanian-born Canadian boxer [category: Births]
• 1980: Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Piotr Giza, Polish footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum. [category: Events]
• 1981: Brian Bannister, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Florent Serra, French tennis player [category: Births]
• 1982: Natalia Vodianova, Russian supermodel [category: Births]
• 1984: Ben Fagan, American musician [category: Births]
• 1984: Christian Müller, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Karolína Kurková, Czech supermodel [category: Births]
• 1984: Noureen DeWulf, American actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1985: Tim Bresnan, British cricketer [category: Births]
• 1985: David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Ray Ellington, English singer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day. [category: Events]
• 1986: Mark Sztyndera, German rugby player [category: Births]
• 1986: Min Hyo-rin, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Tendai Mzungu, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm. [category: Events]
• 1987: Antonio Candreva, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Stephen Tennant, English socialite (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Aroldis Chapman, Cuban baseball player [category: Births]
• 1988: Jorge Gastélum, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Maikol Negro, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Markéta Irglová, Czech songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Steeve Gerard Fankà, Cameroonian footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Charles Jenkins, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1990: Naomi Broady, British tennis player [category: Births]
• 1991: Sarah Bolger, Irish actress [category: Births]
• 1991: Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: The first Gulf War ends. [category: Events]
• 1993: Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress and dancer (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff. [category: Events]
• 1997: An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths. [category: Events]
• 1997: An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in Armenia and Azerbaijan kills around 1,100 people [category: Events]
• 1997: GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way. [category: Events]
• 1997: The North Hollywood shootout takes place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators. [category: Events]
• 1998: Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace. [category: Events]
• 1998: Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo. [category: Events]
• 1999: Christine Glanville, British puppeteer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash. [category: Events]
• 2001: The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington. [category: Events]
• 2002: Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre. [category: Events]
• 2003: Chris Brasher, English athlete (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek film director and screenwriter (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Rudolf Kingslake, English optical engineer (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Carmen Laforet, Spanish writer (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947 [category: Events]
• 2005: Chris Curtis, English singer and musician (The Searchers) (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127. [category: Events]
• 2006: John S. Lesmeister, American politician (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco [category: Births]
• 2007: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and political commentator (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Baron Charles Forte, Italian-born hotelier (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Annie Girardot, French actress (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Jane Russell, American actress (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Peter Gomes, Harvard University Chaplain (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bai Jing, Chinese actress (b. 1983) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jim Green, Canadian politician (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Peter King, English footballer (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 202_bc: coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China. [category: Events]
• 468: Pope Hilarius (approximate date) [category: Deaths]
• 870: The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. [category: Events]
• _: Abercius (martyr) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: February 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hilarius [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Kalevala Day, the day of Finnish Culture. (Finland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Mar Abba [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Science Day (India) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Oswald of Worcester [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Peace Memorial Day (Taiwan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Rare Disease Day (last day of February) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Romanus of Condat [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Rufinus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Teacher's Day (Arab countries) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The third day of Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá'í Faith) [category: Holidays and observances]