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| February 28th, 2005 (February 28 2005) | Event | Lebanon s pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, resigns amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in Beirut. | |
| February 28th, 2005 (February 28 2005) | Event | A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127. | |
| February 28th, 1995 (February 28 1995) | Event | Denver International Airport officially opens in Denver, Colorado to replace Stapleton International Airport | |
| February 28th, 1985 (February 28 1985) | Event | 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. | |
| February 28th, 1985 (February 28 1985) | Birth | Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer | |
| February 28th, 1985 (February 28 1985) | Birth | Jelena Jankovic, Serbian tennis player | |
| February 28th, 1985 (February 28 1985) | Death | David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (born in 1947) | |
| February 28th, 1985 (February 28 1985) | Death | Ray Ellington, English singer (born in 1916) | |
| February 28th, 1975 (February 28 1975) | Event | A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people. | |
| February 28th, 1975 (February 28 1975) | Birth | Mike Rucker, American football player | |
| February 28th, 1955 (February 28 1955) | Birth | Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian | |
| February 28th, 1945 (February 28 1945) | Birth | Bubba Smith, American football player and actor | |
| February 28th, 1935 (February 28 1935) | Event | Nylon is invented by Wallace Carothers. | |
| February 28th, 1935 (February 28 1935) | Death | Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (born in 1847). | |
| February 28th, 1925 (February 28 1925) | Birth | Harry H Corbett, English actor (died in 1982) | |
| February 28th, 1925 (February 28 1925) | Death | Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (born in 1871) | |
| February 28th, 1915 (February 28 1915) | Birth | Ketti Frings, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter, (died in 1981) | |
| February 28th, 1915 (February 28 1915) | Birth | Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (died in 1987) | |
| February 28th, 1915 (February 28 1915) | Birth | Zero Mostel, American actor (died in 1977) | Zero Mostel Quotes |
| February 28th, 1895 (February 28 1895) | Birth | Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and film director (died in 1974) | |
| February 28th, 1885 (February 28 1885) | Event | 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.) | |
| February 28th, 1865 (February 28 1865) | Birth | Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary (died in 1940) | |
| February 28th, 1675 (February 28 1675) | Birth | Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (died in 1726) | |
| February 28th, 1525 (February 28 1525) | Death | Cuauhtemoc, Aztec ruler | |
| February 28th, 1485 (February 28 1485) | Death | Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (born in 1441) | |
| February 28th, 1155 (February 28 1155) | Birth | Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (died in 1183) | |
