February 28th, 1749

Born on February 28th, 1749

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 101,000 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 1749

77

Pierre-Simon Laplace

French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)

*March 23rd, 1749, Beaumont-en-Auge †March 5th, 1827, Paris

73

Edward Jenner

English physician, scientist and pioneer of vaccination (1749–1823)

*May 17th, 1749, Berkeley †January 26th, 1823, Berkeley

72

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre

French mathematician and astronomer

*September 19th, 1749, Amiens †August 19th, 1822, Paris

29

Thomas Lynch

Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence from South Carolina (1749-1779)

*August 5th, 1749, Georgetown County †January 1st, 1779, Atlantic Ocean

83

Jeremy Bentham

British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748–1832)

*February 15th, 1749, Houndsditch †June 6th, 1832, London

51

Domenico Cimarosa

Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school

*December 17th, 1749, Aversa †January 11th, 1801, Venice

89

Lorenzo Da Ponte

Italian opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest (1749–1838)

*March 10th, 1749, Ceneda †August 17th, 1838, New York City

69

Johann Nikolaus Forkel

German musician, musicologist and music theorist (1749-1818)

*February 22nd, 1749, Meeder †March 20th, 1818, Göttingen

67

Abraham Gottlob Werner

German geologist (1749-1817)

*September 25th, 1749, Osiecznica †June 30th, 1817, Dresden

57

Charles James Fox

British Whig statesman (1749–1806)

*January 24th, 1749, Westminster †September 13th, 1806, Chiswick

84

Anton Matthias Sprickmann

German writer (1749-1833)

*September 7th, 1749, Münster †November 22nd, 1833, Münster

64

Georg Joseph Vogler

German composer, organist, teacher and music theorist (1747–1814)

*June 15th, 1749, Würzburg †May 6th, 1814, Darmstadt

72

Peter Godeffroy

German merchant from Hamburg

*June 4th, 1749, Hamburg †November 30th, 1821, Hamburg

45

Edvard Storm

Norwegian poet (1749-1794)

*August 21st, 1749, Vågå †September 29th, 1794, Copenhagen

66

Justus Perthes

German publisher (1749-1816)

*September 11th, 1749, Rudolstadt †May 2nd, 1816, Gotha

66

Cornelis van der Aa

Bookseller, author (1749-1815)

*October 22nd, 1749, Leiden †October 26th, 1815, Amsterdam

77

Domenico Alberto Azuni

Italian jurist (1749-1827)

*August 3rd, 1749, Sassari †January 23rd, 1827, Cagliari

79

Valentin Sonnenschein

German sculptor (1749-1828)

*May 22nd, 1749, Stuttgart †September 22nd, 1828, Bern

79

Gregorio Funes

Argentine clergyman and academic (1749-1829)

*May 25th, 1749, Córdoba †January 10th, 1829, Buenos Aires

68

Christian Gottlieb Gmelin

German jurist

*November 3rd, 1749, Tübingen †March 6th, 1818, Tübingen

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1749 is a normal year and no leap year.

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