February 28th, 1693

Born on February 28th, 1693

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 121,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 247 days, exactly on March 10th, 2027, people who were born on February 28th, 1693 will be 122,000 days old!

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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

Born on February 28th, 1693

69

James Bradley

English astronomer; Astronomer Royal

*February 28th, 1693, Sherborne †July 13th, 1762, Chalford

Same year
Born in 1693

47

Anna I of Russia

The fourth Emperor of Russia (1730–1740)

*January 28th, 1693, Moscow †October 17th, 1740, Saint Petersburg

75

Clement XIII

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769

*March 7th, 1693, Venice †February 2nd, 1769, Rome

82

John Harrison

British clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer

*April 3rd, 1693, Foulby †March 24th, 1776, London

38

Siegmund Jakob Apinus

German philologist and educator

*June 7th, 1693, Hersbruck †March 24th, 1732, Brunswick

49

Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach

Austrian architect

*January 1st, 1693, Vienna †June 29th, 1742, Vienna

57

Georg Bernhard Bilfinger

German mathematician (1693-1750)

*January 23rd, 1693, Bad Cannstatt †February 18th, 1750, Stuttgart

69

Hermann Post

German archivist

*October 3rd, 1693, Bremen †November 13th, 1762, Bremen

77

Johann Wolfgang Textor

German politician (1693-1771)

*December 12th, 1693, Frankfurt †February 6th, 1771, Frankfurt

64

Claus Reventlow

Danish jurist and judge (1693-1758)

*December 3rd, 1693, Copenhagen †May 10th, 1758, Copenhagen

73

Malhar Rao Holkar

Maratha noble (1693-1766)

*March 16th, 1693, Jejuri †April 20th, 1766

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1693 is a normal year and no leap year.

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