February 28th, 1732

Born on February 28th, 1732

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 1732

67

George Washington

President of the United States from 1789 to 1797

*February 22nd, 1732, Westmoreland County †December 14th, 1799, Mount Vernon

77

Joseph Haydn

Austrian composer (1732–1809)

*March 31st, 1732, Rohrau †May 31st, 1809, Vienna

74

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

French painter (1732–1806)

*April 5th, 1732, Grasse †August 22nd, 1806, Paris

67

Pierre Beaumarchais

French playwright, diplomat and polymath (1732–1799)

*January 24th, 1732, Paris †May 18th, 1799, Paris

62

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach

German musician and composer

*June 21st, 1732, Leipzig †January 26th, 1795, Bückeburg

74

Jérôme Lalande

French astronomer (*1732 – †1807)

*July 11th, 1732, Bourg-en-Bresse †April 4th, 1807, Paris

85

Warren Hastings

First Governor-General of Bengal (1732–1818)

*December 6th, 1732, Churchill †August 22nd, 1818, Daylesford

74

Johann Christoph Adelung

German philologist, linguist (1732-1806)

*August 8th, 1732, Spantekow †September 10th, 1806, Dresden

293

François Germain Le Rouvillois

French politician

*August 17th, 1732, Saint-Germain-le-Gaillard

65

Friedrich II Eugen, Duke of Württemberg

Duke of Wurttemburg (1732-1797)

*January 21st, 1732, Stuttgart †December 23rd, 1797, Hohenheim

75

John Dickinson

American politician (1732-1808)

*November 8th, 1732, Talbot County †February 14th, 1808, Wilmington

63

Carl Friedrich Gerstlacher

German jurist, publicist and university professor

*May 12th, 1732, Böblingen †August 15th, 1795, Karlsruhe

38

Gian Francesco de Majo

Italian composer

*March 24th, 1732, Naples †November 17th, 1770, Naples

77

Johann Christian Kittel

German organist and composer

*February 18th, 1732, Erfurt †April 17th, 1809, Erfurt

73

Johann Friedrich Burscher

German theologian

*February 16th, 1732, Kamenz †September 10th, 1805, Leipzig

79

John Broadwood

Scottish founder of the piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons; (1732-1812)

*October 6th, 1732, Berwickshire †July 17th, 1812, London

78

Joseph Leutgeb

Austrian musician

*October 8th, 1732, Neulerchenfeld †February 27th, 1811, Vienna

26

Esther Edwards Burr

American writer (1732-1758)

*February 13th, 1732, Northampton †April 7th, 1758, Princeton

42

Georg Ludwig Alefeld

German physicist (1732-1774)

*November 1st, 1732, Giessen †November 21st, 1774, Giessen

80

Giuseppe Aprile

Italian castrato singer and music teacher

*October 28th, 1732, Martina Franca †January 11th, 1813, Martina Franca

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Leap year

Yes: 1732 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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