February 28th, 1697

Born on February 28th, 1697

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 120,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 733 days, exactly on June 13th, 2028, people who were born on February 28th, 1697 will be 121,000 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

Same year
Born in 1697

66

William Hogarth

English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist (1697-1764)

*November 10th, 1697, London †October 26th, 1764, London

63

Friederike Caroline Neuber

German actor and director

*March 9th, 1697, Reichenbach im Vogtland †November 30th, 1760, Laubegast

69

Claude Pierre Goujet

French historian

*October 19th, 1697, Paris †February 1st, 1767, Paris

45

Jan Baptist Xavery

Flemish sculptor

*March 30th, 1697, Antwerp †July 19th, 1742, The Hague

84

Faustina Bordoni

Opera singer (1697-1781)

*March 30th, 1697, Venice †November 4th, 1781, Venice

68

Ferdinand August Hommel

German university teacher and writer (1697-1765)

*February 3rd, 1697, Leipzig †February 16th, 1765, Leipzig

48

John Peter Zenger

A German printer and journalist in New York City

*October 26th, 1697, Impflingen †July 28th, 1746, New York City

82

Francesco Antonio Vallotti

Italian composer, organist and music theorist

*June 11th, 1697, Vercelli †January 10th, 1780, Padua

57

Adam Falckenhagen

German composer and lutenist

*April 26th, 1697, Leipzig †October 6th, 1754, Bayreuth

80

Charles Antoine de La Roche-Aymon

French cardinal

*February 17th, 1697, France †October 27th, 1777, Paris

73

Bernhard Siegfried Albinus

German-born Dutch anatomist (1697-1770)

*February 24th, 1697, Frankfurt (Oder) †September 9th, 1770, Leiden

71

Gerhard Tersteegen

German theologian and hymn writer

*November 25th, 1697, Moers †April 3rd, 1769, Mülheim an der Ruhr

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1697 is a normal year and no leap year.

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