February 28th, 1489

Born on February 28th, 1489

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 196,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 744 days, exactly on July 12th, 2028, people who were born on February 28th, 1489 will be 197,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on February 28th?

February 28th, 1966

American test pilots Charles Bassett and Elliot See die in a plane crash in in St. Louis, Missouri.

February 28th, 2021

Bus drivers in Greater Manchester began an eleven-week strike, one of the longest in British transportation history.

February 28th, 2013

Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.

February 28th, 2002

During a period of religious violence in Gujarat, India, mobs of Hindus attacked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and in Chamanpura, resulting in 166 deaths.

February 28th, 2001

A high-speed train crash occurred near Selby in North Yorkshire, England, killing 10 and injuring 82.

February 28th, 1997

Two heavily armed bank robbers exchanged gunfire with officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, in one of the most intense gun battles in American police history.

February 28th, 1985

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launched a mortar attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary station in Newry, Northern Ireland, killing nine people.

February 28th, 1975

A London Underground train failed to stop at the terminal Moorgate station, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people.

February 28th, 1974

The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Liberal Party, under Jeremy Thorpe, achieved their highest ever number of votes.

February 28th, 1972

Japanese police stormed a mountain lodge near Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, to end a ten-day siege by members of the paramilitary group United Red Army.

February 28th, 1963

Chicago alderman Benjamin F. Lewis was murdered in his office by unknown assailants two days after having been reelected.

February 28th, 1947

Nationalist soldiers fired on protesters in Taipei (crowd pictured), triggering widespread uprisings and violent suppression in the White Terror.

February 28th, 1939

In one of the most famous errors in lexicography, the erroneous word dord was discovered in Webster's New International Dictionary by an editor.

February 28th, 1928

Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his colleagues discovered what is now known as Raman scattering, for which he later became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

February 28th, 1914

In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, Greeks living in southern Albania proclaimed the short-lived Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 28th

Same year
Born in 1489

66

Thomas Cranmer

Leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury

*July 2nd, 1489, Nottingham †March 21st, 1556, Oxford

51

Margaret Tudor

Scottish Queen consort (1489-1541)

*November 28th, 1489, London †October 18th, 1541, Methven Castle

54

Francesco Maria Molza

Italian poet

*June 18th, 1489, Modena †February 28th, 1544, Modena

50

Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg

General treasurer and archchancellor of a Austrian archduke in Spain (1489-1539)

*January 1st, 1489, Burgos †January 1st, 1539, Ensisheim

73

Simon Pistoris der Jüngere

German jurist

*October 28th, 1489, Leipzig †December 3rd, 1562, Nünchritz

6

Charles II, Duke of Savoy

Italian noble

*June 23rd, 1489, Turin †April 16th, 1496, Moncalieri

49

Filippo Strozzi the Younger

Italian banker (1489-1538)

*January 4th, 1489, Florence †December 18th, 1538, Florence

78

Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Wolfenbüttel

*November 10th, 1489, Wolfenbüttel †June 11th, 1568, Wolfenbüttel

22

Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours

Infante of Navarre and French military commander

*December 10th, 1489, Mazères †April 11th, 1512, Battle of Ravenna

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1489 is a normal year and no leap year.

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