February 28th, 1725

Born on February 28th, 1725

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 1725

30

Louis Mandrin

French outlaw

*February 11th, 1725, Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs †May 26th, 1755, Valence

73

Giacomo Casanova

Venetian adventurer and writer (1725–1798)

*April 2nd, 1725, Venice †June 4th, 1798, Vienna

49

Robert Clive

British military officer and East India Company official (1725-1774)

*September 25th, 1725, Shropshire †November 22nd, 1774, London

58

James Otis

Lawyer in colonial Massachusetts (1725-1783)

*February 5th, 1725, Barnstable †May 23rd, 1783, Andover

79

Jean-Baptiste Greuze

French painter (1725 – 1805)

*August 21st, 1725, Tournus †March 21st, 1805, Paris

82

John Newton

Anglican clergyman, slave trader and abolitionist (1725–1807)

*July 24th, 1725, London †December 21st, 1807, London

77

Georg Christoph Kornacher

German politician (1725-1803)

*March 20th, 1725, Heilbronn †January 18th, 1803, Heilbronn

90

Countess Palatine Christiane Henriette of Zweibrücken

Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont

*November 16th, 1725, Ribeauvillé †February 11th, 1816, Bad Arolsen

68

Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne

French noble

*August 15th, 1725, Paris †December 2nd, 1793, Paris

88

Ferdinando Bertoni

Italian composer and organist (1725–1813)

*August 15th, 1725, Salò †December 1st, 1813, Desenzano del Garda

58

Johann Christoph Stockhausen

German theologian

*October 20th, 1725, Gladenbach †September 1st, 1784, Hanau

73

Karl Wilhelm Ramler

German poet

*February 25th, 1725, Kołobrzeg †April 11th, 1798, Berlin

78

Martin Knoller

Painter (1725-1804)

*November 8th, 1725, Steinach am Brenner †July 24th, 1804, Milan

61

Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel

Royal Navy admiral (1725-1786)

*April 25th, 1725, London †October 2nd, 1786, Elveden

74

Louise von Plessen

Lady-in-waiting, writer (1725-1799)

*April 26th, 1725, Vienna †September 14th, 1799, Celle

64

Johann Peter Miller

Lutheran theologian and educationist (1725-1789)

*April 17th, 1725, Leipheim †May 29th, 1789, Göttingen

89

Johann Anton von Pergen

Austrian diplomat (1725-1814)

*February 15th, 1725, Vienna †May 12th, 1814, Vienna

80

Lachlan McIntosh

American general (1725–1806)

*March 17th, 1725, Kingussie †February 20th, 1806, Savannah

79

Jean Henri Latude

French writer

*March 23rd, 1725, Montagnac †January 1st, 1805, former 10th arrondissement of Paris

62

Thomas Cushing

First Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor, briefly acting governor (1725-1788)

*March 24th, 1725, Quincy †February 28th, 1788, Boston

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1725 is a normal year and no leap year.

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