A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on February 28 throughout history.
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BC Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China
In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock
French forces attempt to drive the Germans back into the Champagne region during World War I, gaining a few hundred yards at the cost of 50,000 casualties
Great Britain issues the Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence, ending its protectorate over Egypt and granting the country nominal independence while reserving control over military and diplomatic matters
February 28 Massacre: Anti-government uprising in Taiwan is violently put down by Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang-led Republic of China government with the loss of 18,000-28,000 lives, beginning the White Terror
Francis Crick and James Watson discover the chemical structure of the DNA molecule (double-helix polymer) using X-ray diffraction studies developed by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
Extraordinary meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House is curtailed after an argument in front of reporters [1]
Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs on CBS, a two-hour special directed by series star Alan Alda titled "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen"; a record 125 million viewers watch in the US
The 26th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 28, 1984, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, and were broadcast live on American television.
PGA Championship Men's Golf, PGA National East: Jack Nicklaus leads wire-to-wire for his second career Grand Slam, winning by two strokes over Billy Casper
Joanna of Aragon marries Philip of Flanders, future King Philip I of Castile
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.
American actress Maureen Reagan (23) weds second husband, American US Marine David Sills (26); divorce in 1968
Actress Gene Tierney (31) divorces fashion designer Oleg Cassini (39) after almost 11 years of marriage
Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-American actress, model and media personality.
Valentinian I (Latin: Valentinianus; 321 – 17 November 375), sometimes known as Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375.
An ecumenical council, also called general council, is a meeting of bishops and other church authorities to consider and rule on questions of Christian doctrine, administration, discipline, and other...
Anti-Portuguese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas
The National Covenant (Scottish Gaelic: An Cùmhnant Nàiseanta) was an agreement signed by many people of Scotland during 1638, opposing the proposed Laudian reforms of the Church of Scotland (also...
Roger Scott is tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
-Mar 3] 3 Day Sea battle English beat Dutch
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies.
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east.
Frenchman Elias Neau opens a school for blacks in NYC
Slave revolt in Newton, Long Island NY results in 11 deaths
Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna revokes "the conditions" and dissolves the Privy Council, re-instituting autocracy
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.
Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
The 1st Rhode Island Regiment (also known as Varnum's Regiment, the 9th Continental Regiment, the Black Regiment, the Rhode Island Regiment, and Olney's Battalion) was a regiment in the Continental...
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
Charles Pichegru, French army general and royalist who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy, arrested
Philadelphia ( FIL-ə-DEL-fee-ə), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Biela's Comet rediscovered by Austrian astronomer Wilhelm von Biela (originally discovered 1772)
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting marks BO, B&O) was the oldest railroad in the United States and the first steam-operated common carrier.
Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener" premieres in Vienna
Dr Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec)
A 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes, killing US Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking federal officials
US forces numbering less than 1,000 defeat a larger Mexico force in the Battle of the Sacramento River
Salt Lake County is located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 1,185,238, making it the most populous county in Utah.
Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
The First Battle of Fort McAllister was a series of naval attacks that took place from January 27 to March 3, 1863, at Fort McAllister in Bryan County, Georgia, during the American Civil War.
-Mar 3rd] Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
The Bulgarian Exarchate (Orthodox Church) is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire
Civil Rights Act may refer to several civil right acts in the United States. These acts of the United States Congress are meant to protect rights to ensure individuals' freedom from infringement by...
1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University
1st US vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts
Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein trilogy, premieres
First US state naval militia, the Massachusetts Battalion, is organized
Oscar Grundén skates world record 500m (50.8 sec)
Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum" (Silicon carbide)
France dismisses Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar and exiles her to the island of Réunion
Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico passes legislation founding the University of New Mexico, to be established in (or near) Albuquerque
Ladysmith, officially known as uMnambithi since 2024, is a town that serves as the seat of both the Alfred Duma Local Municipality and the Uthukela District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South...
Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buy Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
Sport Lisboa e Benfica, commonly known as Benfica, is a professional football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football. Founded on 28...
Stanley Cup: Ottawa HC beats Queen's University (Kingston, ON), 12-7 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Tehran
1st National Woman's Day is observed in the United States, organized by the Socialist Party of America in honor of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York, where women protest against working conditions
The history of the city of San Francisco, California, and its development as a center of maritime trade, were shaped by its location at the entrance to a large natural harbor.
AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
Austria adopts a new constitution and becomes a kingdom again
Swedish King Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
US begins intervention in Honduras
"Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hits #1
NHL Chicago Black Hawks lose league record 15th straight game at home
Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.
Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
Karl Schäfer of Austria follows up his Winter Olympics victory with his 7th consecutive men’s figure skating World Championship title in Paris, France
Politikin Zabavnik (Serbian Cyrillic: Политикин Забавник) is a popular magazine in Serbia, published by Politika Newspapers and Magazines. The first issue came out on 28 February 1939.
First televised basketball game (University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham University 50-37)
British-Italian dogfight above Albania
As a strikingly controversial project in 1941, Sojourner Truth Project set precedents for Detroit housing project policy through the next decade.
Arrests of the ten-Boom family in Nazi occupied Netherlands (Haarlem) through a Dutch collaborator on charges of hiding Jews
French government of Pleven dissolves
Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 (or 24) nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
13 die in a train crash in Swampscott, Massachusetts
West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN
Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool, England closes
A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years
Pirate Radio Hauraki, on a boat floating off coast of NZ, returns to the air
Diane Margaret Towler MBE married Green, is an English former ice dancer and currently a figure skating coach.
Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
A British soldier dies in Derry after his vehicle had been attacked with petrol bombs (he died as a result of inhaling chemicals from fire extinguishers that were used to put out the fire)
George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), formerly known as the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), is an oil company that had a virtual monopoly on all oil exploration and production in Iraq between 1925 and...
Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
The Moorgate tube crash occurred on 28 February 1975 at 8:46 am on the London Underground's Northern City Line; 43 people died and 74 were injured after a train failed to stop at the line's southern...
Dock strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends
Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond" premieres in NYC
"The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m)
Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
AT&T loses a record $7 billion for the fiscal year ending on this day
European Economic Community signs "Special Act" for Europe free trade
The Kirovabad pogrom or the pogrom of Kirovabad was an Azeri-led ethnic cleansing that targeted Armenians living in the city of Kirovabad (today called Ganja) in Soviet Azerbaijan during November...
10-time MLB All-Star second baseman and manager Red Schoendienst and umpire Al Barlick are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, or the Branch Seventh-day Adventists) are a religious group founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden.
Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand gun in the USA, comes into effect
Denver International Airport (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN, FAA LID: DEN), often referred to by locals as DIA, is an international airport in the Western United States, primarily serving metropolitan...
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
"View From the Bridge" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hits Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia areas of Washington State
Over 1 million Taiwanese participate in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally, forming a 500-kilometer (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
The Al Hillah bombing killed 127 people, chiefly men lining up to join the Iraqi police forces, at the recruiting centre on February 28, 2005 in Al Hillah, Iraq. The bombing caused a worsening of...
Former PM of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is arrested on corruption charges after returning to Thailand following months of exile
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games and also known as Vancouver 2010, were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in...
54th Daytona 500: Rain affected race stopped for 2 hours because of fuel on track; Matt Kenseth leads for final 34 laps to win
Estimates of the casualties from the Iraq War (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency and civil war) have come in several forms, and those estimates of...
illegal churches closed in Rwanda for being too noisy and lacking building permits
Lost Caravaggio painting "Judith and Holofernes" (1607) announced rediscovered in a Toulouse attic in 2014 to be auctioned worth $171 million
Court of Arbitration for Sport bans Chinese triple Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang from swimming for 8 years for breaking anti-doping rules
Hong Kong charges 47 with "conspiracy to commit subversion" in harshest implementation of its new security laws imposed by China
The Russian Kyiv convoy was a column of Russian military vehicles stretching some 64 kilometres (40 mi) in Kyiv Oblast from Prybirsk to Hostomel via Ivankiv involved in the Russian invasion of...
Crash between a Greek passenger service and a freight train kills at least 57 people near town of Larissa, in one of the country's worst-ever rail disasters [1]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) people in Ghana face significant challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents.
Linus Pauling, American scientist and activist, known for american scientist and activist, was born on 1901-02-28.
Bugsy Siegel, American mobster, known for american mobster, was born on 1906-02-28.
Frank Gehry, American american architect, known for canadian and american architect, was born on 1929-02-28.
Paul Krugman, American economist, known for american economist, was born on 1954-02-28.
Louise Woodward, British criminal case of 1997 baby death by british au pair, known for american criminal case of 1997 baby death by british au pair, was born on 1979-02-28.
Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian, known for american comedian, was born on 1955-02-28. Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried (February 28, 1955 – April 12, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer, known for american actress and singer, was born on 1949-02-28. Bernadette Peters is an American actress and singer.
Karolína Kurková is born
Brian Jones, English musician, known for british musician, was born on 1942-02-28.
Jason Aldean, American musician, known for american country singer, was born on 1978-02-28. Jason Aldine Williams, known professionally as Jason Aldean, is an American country music singer.
Joe Malone is born
Mario Andretti, South African athlete, known for american racing driver, was born on 1941-02-28.
Eric Lindros, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1974-02-28. Eric Bryan Lindros is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.
Luka Dončić, Slovenian athlete, known for slovenian basketball player, was born on 2000-02-28.
Olof Palme dies
Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, known for american physicist, died on 2006-02-28.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. intellectual, known for american intellectual, died on 2007-02-28. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster, known for american radio broadcaster, died on 2009-02-28.
BC Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China
Valentinian I (Latin: Valentinianus; 321 – 17 November 375), sometimes known as Valentinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 364 to 375.
An ecumenical council, also called general council, is a meeting of bishops and other church authorities to consider and rule on questions of Christian doctrine, administration, discipline, and other...
Joanna of Aragon marries Philip of Flanders, future King Philip I of Castile
Anti-Portuguese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas
The National Covenant (Scottish Gaelic: An Cùmhnant Nàiseanta) was an agreement signed by many people of Scotland during 1638, opposing the proposed Laudian reforms of the Church of Scotland (also...
Roger Scott is tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
-Mar 3] 3 Day Sea battle English beat Dutch
Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern South America, also considered as part of the Caribbean and the West Indies.
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east.
Frenchman Elias Neau opens a school for blacks in NYC
Slave revolt in Newton, Long Island NY results in 11 deaths
In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock
Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna revokes "the conditions" and dissolves the Privy Council, re-instituting autocracy
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.
Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
The 1st Rhode Island Regiment (also known as Varnum's Regiment, the 9th Continental Regiment, the Black Regiment, the Rhode Island Regiment, and Olney's Battalion) was a regiment in the Continental...
The University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) is a state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
Charles Pichegru, French army general and royalist who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy, arrested
Philadelphia ( FIL-ə-DEL-fee-ə), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
Biela's Comet rediscovered by Austrian astronomer Wilhelm von Biela (originally discovered 1772)
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting marks BO, B&O) was the oldest railroad in the United States and the first steam-operated common carrier.
Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener" premieres in Vienna
Dr Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala"
Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec)
A 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes, killing US Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking federal officials
US forces numbering less than 1,000 defeat a larger Mexico force in the Battle of the Sacramento River
Salt Lake County is located in the U.S. state of Utah. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 1,185,238, making it the most populous county in Utah.
Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
The First Battle of Fort McAllister was a series of naval attacks that took place from January 27 to March 3, 1863, at Fort McAllister in Bryan County, Georgia, during the American Civil War.
-Mar 3rd] Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
The Bulgarian Exarchate (Orthodox Church) is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire
Civil Rights Act may refer to several civil right acts in the United States. These acts of the United States Congress are meant to protect rights to ensure individuals' freedom from infringement by...
1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University
1st US vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts
Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein trilogy, premieres
First US state naval militia, the Massachusetts Battalion, is organized
Joe Malone is born
Oscar Grundén skates world record 500m (50.8 sec)
Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum" (Silicon carbide)
France dismisses Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar and exiles her to the island of Réunion
Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico passes legislation founding the University of New Mexico, to be established in (or near) Albuquerque
Ladysmith, officially known as uMnambithi since 2024, is a town that serves as the seat of both the Alfred Duma Local Municipality and the Uthukela District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South...
Linus Pauling, American scientist and activist, known for american scientist and activist, was born on 1901-02-28.
Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buy Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
Sport Lisboa e Benfica, commonly known as Benfica, is a professional football club based in Lisbon, Portugal, that competes in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese football. Founded on 28...
Stanley Cup: Ottawa HC beats Queen's University (Kingston, ON), 12-7 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
Bugsy Siegel, American mobster, known for american mobster, was born on 1906-02-28.
Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Tehran
1st National Woman's Day is observed in the United States, organized by the Socialist Party of America in honor of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York, where women protest against working conditions
The history of the city of San Francisco, California, and its development as a center of maritime trade, were shaped by its location at the entrance to a large natural harbor.
French forces attempt to drive the Germans back into the Champagne region during World War I, gaining a few hundred yards at the cost of 50,000 casualties
AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
Austria adopts a new constitution and becomes a kingdom again
Great Britain issues the Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence, ending its protectorate over Egypt and granting the country nominal independence while reserving control over military and diplomatic matters
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.
Swedish King Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
US begins intervention in Honduras
"Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hits #1
NHL Chicago Black Hawks lose league record 15th straight game at home
Frank Gehry, American american architect, known for canadian and american architect, was born on 1929-02-28.
Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.
Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
Karl Schäfer of Austria follows up his Winter Olympics victory with his 7th consecutive men’s figure skating World Championship title in Paris, France
Politikin Zabavnik (Serbian Cyrillic: Политикин Забавник) is a popular magazine in Serbia, published by Politika Newspapers and Magazines. The first issue came out on 28 February 1939.
First televised basketball game (University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham University 50-37)
British-Italian dogfight above Albania
Mario Andretti, South African athlete, known for american racing driver, was born on 1941-02-28.
As a strikingly controversial project in 1941, Sojourner Truth Project set precedents for Detroit housing project policy through the next decade.
Brian Jones, English musician, known for british musician, was born on 1942-02-28.
Arrests of the ten-Boom family in Nazi occupied Netherlands (Haarlem) through a Dutch collaborator on charges of hiding Jews
February 28 Massacre: Anti-government uprising in Taiwan is violently put down by Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang-led Republic of China government with the loss of 18,000-28,000 lives, beginning the White Terror
Bernadette Peters, American actress and singer, known for american actress and singer, was born on 1949-02-28. Bernadette Peters is an American actress and singer.
French government of Pleven dissolves
Actress Gene Tierney (31) divorces fashion designer Oleg Cassini (39) after almost 11 years of marriage
Francis Crick and James Watson discover the chemical structure of the DNA molecule (double-helix polymer) using X-ray diffraction studies developed by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
Nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll consisted of the detonation of 23 (or 24) nuclear weapons by the United States between 1946 and 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Paul Krugman, American economist, known for american economist, was born on 1954-02-28.
Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian, known for american comedian, was born on 1955-02-28. Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried (February 28, 1955 – April 12, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian and actor.
13 die in a train crash in Swampscott, Massachusetts
West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN
American actress Maureen Reagan (23) weds second husband, American US Marine David Sills (26); divorce in 1968
Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool, England closes
A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years
Pirate Radio Hauraki, on a boat floating off coast of NZ, returns to the air
Diane Margaret Towler MBE married Green, is an English former ice dancer and currently a figure skating coach.
Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
PGA Championship Men's Golf, PGA National East: Jack Nicklaus leads wire-to-wire for his second career Grand Slam, winning by two strokes over Billy Casper
A British soldier dies in Derry after his vehicle had been attacked with petrol bombs (he died as a result of inhaling chemicals from fire extinguishers that were used to put out the fire)
George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), formerly known as the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), is an oil company that had a virtual monopoly on all oil exploration and production in Iraq between 1925 and...
Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
Eric Lindros, Canadian athlete, known for canadian ice hockey player, was born on 1974-02-28. Eric Bryan Lindros is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player.
The Moorgate tube crash occurred on 28 February 1975 at 8:46 am on the London Underground's Northern City Line; 43 people died and 74 were injured after a train failed to stop at the line's southern...
Dock strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends
Jason Aldean, American musician, known for american country singer, was born on 1978-02-28. Jason Aldine Williams, known professionally as Jason Aldean, is an American country music singer.
Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond" premieres in NYC
Louise Woodward, British criminal case of 1997 baby death by british au pair, known for american criminal case of 1997 baby death by british au pair, was born on 1979-02-28.
"The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m)
Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
AT&T loses a record $7 billion for the fiscal year ending on this day
Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs on CBS, a two-hour special directed by series star Alan Alda titled "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen"; a record 125 million viewers watch in the US
The 26th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 28, 1984, at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, and were broadcast live on American television.
Karolína Kurková is born
European Economic Community signs "Special Act" for Europe free trade
Olof Palme dies
The Kirovabad pogrom or the pogrom of Kirovabad was an Azeri-led ethnic cleansing that targeted Armenians living in the city of Kirovabad (today called Ganja) in Soviet Azerbaijan during November...
10-time MLB All-Star second baseman and manager Red Schoendienst and umpire Al Barlick are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists, or the Branch Seventh-day Adventists) are a religious group founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden.
Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand gun in the USA, comes into effect
Denver International Airport (IATA: DEN, ICAO: KDEN, FAA LID: DEN), often referred to by locals as DIA, is an international airport in the Western United States, primarily serving metropolitan...
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-American actress, model and media personality.
"View From the Bridge" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
Luka Dončić, Slovenian athlete, known for slovenian basketball player, was born on 2000-02-28.
Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hits Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia areas of Washington State
Over 1 million Taiwanese participate in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally, forming a 500-kilometer (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
The Al Hillah bombing killed 127 people, chiefly men lining up to join the Iraqi police forces, at the recruiting centre on February 28, 2005 in Al Hillah, Iraq. The bombing caused a worsening of...
Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, known for american physicist, died on 2006-02-28.
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. intellectual, known for american intellectual, died on 2007-02-28. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr.
Former PM of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is arrested on corruption charges after returning to Thailand following months of exile
Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster, known for american radio broadcaster, died on 2009-02-28.
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games and also known as Vancouver 2010, were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in...
54th Daytona 500: Rain affected race stopped for 2 hours because of fuel on track; Matt Kenseth leads for final 34 laps to win
Estimates of the casualties from the Iraq War (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency and civil war) have come in several forms, and those estimates of...
illegal churches closed in Rwanda for being too noisy and lacking building permits
Lost Caravaggio painting "Judith and Holofernes" (1607) announced rediscovered in a Toulouse attic in 2014 to be auctioned worth $171 million
Court of Arbitration for Sport bans Chinese triple Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang from swimming for 8 years for breaking anti-doping rules
Hong Kong charges 47 with "conspiracy to commit subversion" in harshest implementation of its new security laws imposed by China
The Russian Kyiv convoy was a column of Russian military vehicles stretching some 64 kilometres (40 mi) in Kyiv Oblast from Prybirsk to Hostomel via Ivankiv involved in the Russian invasion of...
Crash between a Greek passenger service and a freight train kills at least 57 people near town of Larissa, in one of the country's worst-ever rail disasters [1]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) people in Ghana face significant challenges not experienced by non-LGBTQ residents.
Extraordinary meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House is curtailed after an argument in front of reporters [1]