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February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 306 days remain until the end of the year (307 in leap years).




Events






= Pre-1600

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202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on the order of conquistador Hernán Cortés.




= 1601–1900

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1638 – The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
1835 – Elias Lönnrot signed and dated the first version of the Kalevala, the so-called foreword to the Old Kalevala.
1844 – A gun explodes on board the steam warship USS Princeton during a pleasure cruise down the Potomac River, killing six, including Secretary of State Abel Upshur. President John Tyler, who was also on board, was not injured from the blast.




= 1901–present

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1922 – The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1925 – The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
1947 – February 28 incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the death of an estimated 28,000 civilians.
1948 – The 1948 Accra riots erupted following a march by ex-servicemen of the Gold Coast Regiment towards the seat of the colonial government at Christiansborg Castle where they were fired upon by Superintendant Colin Imray leading to the killing of Sergeant Adjetey, Corporal Attipoe and Private Odartey Lamptey and the arrest of the Big Six in the Gold Coast.
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 one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
1959 – Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
1966 – A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory while attempting a poor-visibility landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, killing astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett.
1969 – The 1969 Portugal earthquake hits Portugal, Spain and Morocco.
1974 – The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Jeremy Thorpe-led Liberal Party achieved their biggest vote share since 1929.
1975 – In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
1983 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 110 million viewers.
1985 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers.
1986 – Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
1990 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-36.
1993 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh, starting a 51-day standoff.
1997 – An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 1,100 deaths.
1997 – A Turkish military memorandum resulted in the collapse of the coalition government in Turkey.
2001 – The 2001 Nisqually earthquake, having a moment magnitude of 6.8, with epicenter in the southern Puget Sound, damages Seattle metropolitan area.
2002 – During the religious violence in Gujarat, 97 people are killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in the Gulbarg Society massacre.
2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since Pope Gregory XII in 1415.
2023 – Two trains collide south of the Vale of Tempe in Greece, leading to the deaths of at least 57 people and leaving 58 missing and 85 injured.
2024 – Prime Minister Modi of India inaugurated the 2nd Space Port of India - Kulasekarapattinam Spaceport.




Births






= Pre-1600

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1261 – Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (d. 1283)
1518 – Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Duke of Brittany (d. 1536)
1533 – Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and author (d. 1592)
1535 – Cornelius Gemma, Dutch astronomer and astrologer (d. 1578)
1552 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss mathematician and clockmaker (d. 1632)




= 1601–1900

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1675 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French entomologist and academic (d. 1757)
1704 – Louis Godin, French astronomer and academic (d. 1760)
1848 – Arthur Giry, French historian and academic (d. 1899)
1858 – Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor and director (d. 1941)
1866 – Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1949)
1878 – Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1929)
1884 – Ants Piip, Estonian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1942)
1887 – William Zorach, Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter (d. 1966)
1894 – Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1964)
1896 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
1898 – Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish footballer (d. 1969)




= 1901–present

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1901 – Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
1903 – Vincente Minnelli, American theatre and film director (d. 1986)
1906 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
1907 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
1908 – Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)
1909 – Stephen Spender, English author and poet (d. 1995)
1915 – Ketti Frings, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
1915 – Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
1919 – Alfred Marshall, American businessman, founded Marshalls (d. 2013)
1920 – Jadwiga Piłsudska, Polish soldier, pilot, and architect (d. 2014)
1921 – Marah Halim Harahap, Indonesian military officer, Governor of North Sumatra (d. 2015)
1922 – Radu Câmpeanu, Romanian politician (d. 2016)
1923 – Charles Durning, American actor (d. 2012)
1924 – Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (d. 2014)
1925 – Harry H. Corbett, Burmese-English actor (d. 1982)
1926 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Russian-American writer, daughter of Joseph Stalin (d. 2011)
1928 – Tom Aldredge, American actor (d. 2011)
1928 – Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and producer (d. 1976)
1929 – Hayden Fry, American football player and coach (d. 2019)
1929 – Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect and designer
1929 – John Montague, American-Irish poet and academic (d. 2016)
1930 – Leon Cooper, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2024)
1931 – Peter Alliss, English golfer and sportscaster (d. 2020)
1931 – Gavin MacLeod, American actor, Christian activist, and author (d. 2021)
1931 – Len Newcombe, Welsh footballer and scout (d. 1996)
1932 – Don Francks, Canadian actor, singer, and jazz musician (d. 2016)
1932 – Ernst Hinterseer, Austria retired alpine skier
1933 – Rein Taagepera, Estonian political scientist and politician
1937 – Jeff Farrell, American swimmer
1939 – Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 – Tommy Tune, American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer
1940 – Mario Andretti, Italian-American racing driver
1942 – Frank Bonner, American actor and television director (d. 2021)
1942 – Brian Jones, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 1969)
1942 – Dino Zoff, Italian footballer
1943 – Barbara Acklin, American singer-songwriter (d. 1998)
1944 – Kelly Bishop, American actress
1944 – Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (d. 2014)
1944 – Sepp Maier, German footballer and manager
1944 – Storm Thorgerson, English graphic designer (d. 2013)
1945 – Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (d. 2011)
1946 – Robin Cook, Scottish educator and politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (d. 2005)
1946 – Syreeta Wright, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1947 – Stephanie Beacham, English actress
1947 – Salvador Flamenco, Salvadoran footballer
1948 – Steven Chu, American physicist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel Prize laureate
1948 – Mike Figgis, English film director, screenwriter, and composer
1948 – Bernadette Peters, American actress, singer, and author
1948 – Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
1949 – Zoia Ceaușescu, Romanian mathematician, daughter of Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena Ceaușescu (d. 2006)
1949 – Ilene Graff, American actress and singer
1953 – Luther Burden, American basketball player (d. 2015)
1953 – Paul Krugman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1953 – Ricky Steamboat, American professional wrestler
1954 – Brian Billick, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1955 – Adrian Dantley, American basketball player and coach
1955 – Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian, actor, and singer (d. 2022)
1956 – Francis Hughes, Irish Republican, hunger striker (d. 1981)
1956 – Terry Leahy, English businessman
1957 – Ainsley Harriott, English chef and television presenter
1957 – Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
1957 – John Turturro, American actor and director
1957 – Cindy Wilson, American singer-songwriter
1958 – Manuel Torres Félix, Mexican criminal and narcotics trafficker (d. 2012)
1958 – Mark Pavelich, American ice hockey player (d. 2021)
1958 – David R. Ross, Scottish historian and author (d. 2010)
1961 – Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian-American actress
1961 – Barry McGuigan, Irish-British boxer
1963 – Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist
1965 – Mikko Mäkelä, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
1966 – Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer
1966 – Archbishop Jovan VI of Ohrid
1967 – Colin Cooper, English footballer and manager
1967 – Seth Rudetsky, American musician, actor, writer, and radio host
1969 – Sean Farrel, English footballer
1969 – Butch Leitzinger, American race car driver
1969 – Robert Sean Leonard, American actor
1969 – Pat Monahan, American singer-songwriter and actor
1970 – Daniel Brochu, Canadian actor
1970 – Daniel Handler, American author, musician, screenwriter, and producer
1970 – Noureddine Morceli, Algerian runner
1971 – Junya Nakano, Japanese pianist and composer
1971 – Tasha Smith, American actress, director, and producer
1972 – Rory Cochrane, American actor
1972 – Ville Haapasalo, Finnish actor and screenwriter
1973 – Eric Lindros, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Nicolas Minassian, French race car driver
1973 – Masato Tanaka, Japanese wrestler
1974 – Lee Carsley, English-Irish footballer and manager
1974 – Alexander Zickler, German footballer and manager
1975 – Mike Rucker, American football player
1976 – Francisco Elson, Dutch basketball player
1976 – Ali Larter, American actress and model
1977 – Jason Aldean, American singer-songwriter
1977 – Lance Hoyt, American football player and wrestler
1978 – Geoffrey Arend, American actor
1978 – Benjamin Raich, Austrian skier
1978 – Jamaal Tinsley, American basketball player
1978 – Mariano Zabaleta, Argentinian tennis player
1979 – Sébastien Bourdais, French race car driver
1979 – Ivo Karlović, Croatian tennis player
1980 – Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer
1980 – Christian Poulsen, Danish footballer
1980 – Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
1981 – Brian Bannister, American baseball player and scout
1982 – Isabel Mendes Lopes, Portuguese politician
1982 – Natalia Vodianova, Russian-French model and actress
1984 – Karolína Kurková, Czech model and actress
1984 – Ali Marhyar, French actor, film director and screenwriter
1985 – Tim Bresnan, English cricketer
1985 – Diego, Brazilian footballer
1985 – Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
1987 – Akito, Japanese professional wrestler
1987 – Antonio Candreva, Italian footballer
1987 – Michelle Horn, American actress
1987 – Josh McRoberts, American basketball player
1988 – Aroldis Chapman, Cuban baseball player
1989 – Carlos Dunlap, American football player
1989 – Charles Jenkins, American basketball player
1990 – Takayasu Akira, Japanese sumo wrestler
1990 – Ryan Allen, American football player
1990 – Sebastian Rudy, German footballer
1991 – Sarah Bolger, Irish actress
1991 – Ronalds Ķēniņš, Latvian ice hockey player
1993 – Marquis Teague, American basketball player
1993 – Éder Álvarez Balanta, Colombian footballer
1994 – Alex Caruso, American basketball player
1994 – Arkadiusz Milik, Polish footballer
1995 – Randy Arozarena, Cuban-Mexican baseball player
1995 – Madisen Beaty, American actress
1995 – Quinn Shephard, American actress
1996 – Bobb'e J. Thompson, American actor
1996 – Jakub Vrána, Czech ice hockey player
1996 – Lucas Boyé, Argentinian footballer
1996 – Axel Werner, Argentinian footballer
1997 – Chris Lindstrom, American football player
1998 – Teun Koopmeiners, Dutch footballer
1999 – Luka Dončić, Slovenian basketball player
2000 – Moise Kean, Italian footballer
2000 – Josip Šutalo, Croatian footballer
2005 – Vitor Roque, Brazilian footballer




Deaths






= Pre-1600

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628 – Khosrow II, Shah of Iran, Sasanian Empire (b. c. 570)




= 1601–1900

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1621 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
1740 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal and patron of the arts (b. 1667)
1857 – André Dumont, Belgian geologist and academic (b. 1809)
1882 – Adolf Zytogorski, Polish-British chess master and translator (b. c. 1811/1812)




= 1901–present

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1929 – Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
1932 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
1936 – Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1955 – Isak Penttala, Finnish politician (b. 1883)
1966 – Charles Bassett, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1931)
1966 – Elliot See, American commander, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
1975 – Neville Cardus, English cricket and music writer (b. 1888)
1977 – Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor and comedian (b. 1905)
1978 – Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)
1993 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian-American actress and dancer (b. 1909)
1998 – Arkady Shevchenko, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1930)
2002 – Mary Stuart, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
2002 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist and composer (b. 1920)
2003 – Chris Brasher, Guyanese-English runner and journalist, co-founded the London Marathon (b. 1928)
2004 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and librarian (b. 1914)
2005 – Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (b. 1941)
2006 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
2007 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and critic (b. 1917)
2009 – Paul Harvey, American radio host (b. 1918)
2011 – Annie Girardot, French actress (b. 1931)
2013 – Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
2014 – Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch linguist and author (b. 1935)
2015 – Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1923)
2016 – George Kennedy, American actor (b. 1925)
2019 – André Previn, German-American pianist, conductor, and composer. (b. 1929)
2020 – Joe Coulombe, founder of Trader Joe's (b. 1930)
2020 – Freeman Dyson, British-born American physicist and mathematician (b. 1923)
2020 – Sir Lenox Hewitt, Australian public servant (b. 1917)
2024 – Ahmed Salim, Bangladeshi convicted murderer (b. 1989)
2024 – Cat Janice, American singer-songwriter (b. 1993)




Holidays and observances


Christian feast day:
February 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Kalevala Day, also known as the Finnish Culture Day (Finland)
National Science Day (India)
Peace Memorial Day (Taiwan)
Andalusia Day (Spain)




References






External links



BBC: On This Day

The New York Times: On This Day
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