February 28 Events |
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| February 28th, 2008 (February 28 2008) | Event | Former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is arrested on corruption charges upon returning to Thailand after months of exile. | |
| February 28th, 2007 (February 28 2007) | Event | Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft. | |
| 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, 2004 (February 28 2004) | Event | Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947 | |
| February 28th, 2001 (February 28 2001) | Event | 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. | |
| February 28th, 2001 (February 28 2001) | Event | Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash. | |
| February 28th, 1998 (February 28 1998) | Event | 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. | |
| February 28th, 1998 (February 28 1998) | Event | Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo. | |
| February 28th, 1997 (February 28 1997) | Event | The North Hollywood shootout takes place. | |
| February 28th, 1995 (February 28 1995) | Event | Denver International Airport officially opens in Denver, Colorado to replace Stapleton International Airport | |
| February 28th, 1993 (February 28 1993) | Event | 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. | |
| February 28th, 1991 (February 28 1991) | Event | The first Gulf War ends. | |
| February 28th, 1986 (February 28 1986) | Event | Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm. | Olof Palme Quotes |
| 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, 1983 (February 28 1983) | Event | The final episode of M*A*S*H is broadcast in the USA, becoming the most watched television episode in history, with 106-125 million viewers in the U.S. (estimate varies by source). | |
| February 28th, 1975 (February 28 1975) | Event | A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people. | |
| February 28th, 1974 (February 28 1974) | Event | After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations. | |
| February 28th, 1972 (February 28 1972) | Event | The Asama-Sanso incident ends in Japan. | |
| February 28th, 1972 (February 28 1972) | Event | Sino-American relations: The United States and People s Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communique. | |
| February 28th, 1953 (February 28 1953) | Event | 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 Nature (puborn in April 2). | James D. Watson Quotes |
| February 28th, 1947 (February 28 1947) | Event | 228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives. | |
| February 28th, 1942 (February 28 1942) | Event | The heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed. | |
| February 28th, 1940 (February 28 1940) | Event | Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden). | |
| February 28th, 1939 (February 28 1939) | Event | The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik is published. | |
| February 28th, 1939 (February 28 1939) | Event | The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation. | |
| February 28th, 1935 (February 28 1935) | Event | Nylon is invented by Wallace Carothers. | |
| February 28th, 1933 (February 28 1933) | Event | Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire. | |
| February 28th, 1922 (February 28 1922) | Event | The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt. | |
| February 28th, 1900 (February 28 1900) | Event | The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted. | |
| February 28th, 1897 (February 28 1897) | Event | Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force. | |
| 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, 1883 (February 28 1883) | Event | The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts. | |
| February 28th, 1870 (February 28 1870) | Event | The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire. | |
| February 28th, 1861 (February 28 1861) | Event | Colorado is organized as a United States territory. | |
| February 28th, 1854 (February 28 1854) | Event | The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin. | |
| February 28th, 1850 (February 28 1850) | Event | The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah. | |
| February 28th, 1849 (February 28 1849) | Event | 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 21 days after leaving New York Harbor. | |
| February 28th, 1844 (February 28 1844) | Event | A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United States Cabinet members and several others. | |
| February 28th, 1838 (February 28 1838) | Event | Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec) | |
| February 28th, 1827 (February 28 1827) | Event | The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight. | |
| February 28th, 1787 (February 28 1787) | Event | The charter establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh is granted. | |
| February 28th, 1784 (February 28 1784) | Event | John Wesley charters the Methodist Church. | John Wesley Quotes |
| February 28th, 1710 (February 28 1710) | Event | In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jorgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. | |
| February 28th, 1700 (February 28 1700) | Event | Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar. | |
| February 28th, 0870 (February 28 0870) | Event | The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. | |
| February 28th, 0364 (February 28 0364) | Event | Valentinian I becomes Roman Emperor. | |
| February 28th, 0202 (February 28 0202) | Event | coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty s rule over China | |
