February 28th, 1548

Born on February 28th, 1548

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 174,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 265 days, exactly on April 17th, 2027, people who were born on February 28th, 1548 will be 175,000 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 1548

67

Martin Brenner

German theologian

*November 11th, 1548, Dietenheim †October 14th, 1616, Leibnitz

68

Cornelis Ketel

Painter from the Northern Netherlands (1548-1616)

*March 18th, 1548, Gouda †August 8th, 1616, Amsterdam

49

Jacopo Mazzoni

Italian philosopher (1548-1598)

*November 27th, 1548, Cesena †April 10th, 1598, Cesena

73

David Pareus

German theologian (1549-1622)

*December 30th, 1548, Ząbkowice Śląskie †June 15th, 1622, Heidelberg

79

Johannes Zölner

*October 31st, 1548, Jena †February 15th, 1628, Jena

80

Peter Candid

Flemish painter and graphic designer (1548-1628)

*January 1st, 1548, Bruges †February 29th, 1628, Munich

79

Andrew Downes

English classical scholar

*November 30th, 1548, Shropshire †January 1st, 1628, Coton

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Leap year

Yes: 1548 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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