February 28th, 1723

Born on February 28th, 1723

Age in days, weeks and months
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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 1723

67

Adam Smith

Scottish moral philosopher and political economist (1723-1790)

*June 5th, 1723, Kirkcaldy †July 17th, 1790, Edinburgh

66

Johann Jakob Schalch

Swiss artist (1723–1789)

*January 23rd, 1723, Schaffhausen †August 21st, 1789, Schaffhausen

71

John Witherspoon

Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and Founding Father of the United States (1723-1794)

*February 5th, 1723, Gifford †November 15th, 1794, Tusculum

65

Baron d'Holbach

German-born French philosopher (1723–1789)

*December 8th, 1723, Edesheim †January 21st, 1789, Paris

76

Jean-François Marmontel

French historian and writer, a member of the Encyclopediste movement (1723-1799)

*July 11th, 1723, Bort-les-Orgues †December 31st, 1799, Saint-Aubin-sur-Gaillon

65

Nicole-Reine Lepaute

French astronomer (1723-1788)

*January 5th, 1723, Paris †December 6th, 1788, Paris

56

William Blackstone

English jurist, judge and Tory politician (1723-1780)

*July 10th, 1723, City of London †February 14th, 1780, Wallingford

63

Carl Friedrich Abel

German composer

*December 22nd, 1723, Köthen †June 20th, 1787, London

63

Johann Georg von Lori

Bavarian high official, lawyer and historian (1723-1787)

*July 17th, 1723, Steingaden †March 23rd, 1787, Neuburg an der Donau

74

Giovanni Marco Rutini

Italian composer

*April 25th, 1723, Florence †December 22nd, 1797, Florence

74

François Louis de Bons

Swiss pastor & theologian

*February 17th, 1723, Murten †July 8th, 1797, Lausanne

67

Gabriel Christoph Benjamin Mosche

28 Mar 1723 - 8 Feb 1791

*March 23rd, 1723, Großenehrich †February 8th, 1791, Frankfurt

73

Franz Xaver von Breuner

Austrian priest

*May 21st, 1723, Graz †March 1st, 1797, Salzburg

72

Antonio Caballero y Góngora

Catholic bishop (1723-1796)

*May 24th, 1723, Priego de Córdoba †March 24th, 1796, Córdoba

76

Daniel Itzig

German banker (1723-1799)

*March 18th, 1723, Berlin †May 17th, 1799, Potsdam

76

Marcus Elieser Bloch

German physician and zoologist (1723–1799)

*January 1st, 1723, Ansbach †August 6th, 1799, Karlovy Vary

75

Manuel Antonio Flórez

Viceroy of New Granada and New Spain (1723-1799)

*May 27th, 1723, Seville †March 20th, 1799, Madrid

69

Antoine Louis

French surgeon and physiologist (1723-1792)

*February 13th, 1723, Metz †May 20th, 1792, Paris

62

John Byron

British Royal Navy officer and politician; (1723-1786)

*November 8th, 1723, Newstead Abbey †April 10th, 1786, London

85

Louis-Pierre Anquetil

French historian

*February 21st, 1723, Paris †September 6th, 1808, Paris

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1723 is a normal year and no leap year.

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