February 28th, 1721

Born on February 28th, 1721

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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 1721

50

Tobias Smollett

18th-century poet and author from Scotland

*March 19th, 1721, Cardross †September 17th, 1771, Livorno

42

Madame de Pompadour

Chief mistress of Louis XV of France (1721-1764)

*December 29th, 1721, Paris †April 15th, 1764, Versailles

82

Edmund Pendleton

American politician (1721-1803)

*September 9th, 1721, Caroline County †October 23rd, 1803, Caroline County

66

Benjamin Wilson

British painter and scientist (1721-1788)

*June 21st, 1721, Leeds †June 6th, 1788, London

85

John Reid

British Army officer, composer, and flautist (1721–1807)

*February 13th, 1721, Perthshire †February 6th, 1807, London

86

Fredrik Henrik af Chapman

Swedish admiral and shipbuilder (1721-1808)

*September 9th, 1721, Gothenburg †August 19th, 1808, Karlskrona city community

61

Anna Dorothea Therbusch

Painter from Prussia (1721-1782)

*July 23rd, 1721, Berlin †November 9th, 1782, Berlin

46

Philipp Friedrich Gmelin

German professor of botany and chemistry (1721-1768)

*August 19th, 1721, Tübingen †May 9th, 1768, Tübingen

87

David Zeisberger

American missionary

*April 11th, 1721, Suchdol nad Odrou †November 17th, 1808, Ohio

59

Johann de Kalb

American general (1721-1780)

*June 19th, 1721, Hüttendorf †August 19th, 1780, Camden

70

Placidus Fixlmillner

Austrian monk-astronomer

*May 28th, 1721, Upper Austria †August 27th, 1791, Kremsmünster

81

Domenico Corvi

Italian painter (1721-1803)

*September 16th, 1721, Viterbo †July 22nd, 1803, Rome

71

Franz Anton Knittel

German theologian

*April 3rd, 1721, Salzdahlum †December 10th, 1792, Wolfenbüttel

72

Roger Sherman

Early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States (1721-1793)

*April 19th, 1721, Newton †July 23rd, 1793, New Haven

85

Eliphalet Dyer

American judge and politician

*September 14th, 1721, Windham †May 13th, 1807, Windham

52

Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz

German general

*February 3rd, 1721, Kalkar †August 27th, 1773, Oława

46

John Frederick, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1721-1767)

*January 8th, 1721, Rudolstadt †July 10th, 1767, Rudolstadt

76

Johann Samuel Diterich

German Archdeacon and parson (1721-1797)

*January 1st, 1721, Berlin †January 1st, 1797, Berlin

77

Christian Gotthelf von Gutschmid

German politician (1721-1798)

*December 12th, 1721, Kahren †December 30th, 1798, Dresden

48

Mark Akenside

English poet and physician

*November 9th, 1721, Newcastle upon Tyne †June 23rd, 1770, London

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1721 is a normal year and no leap year.

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