February 28th, 1751

Born on February 28th, 1751

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 1751

85

James Madison

President of the United States from 1809 to 1817

*March 16th, 1751, Port Conway †June 28th, 1836, Montpelier

64

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Irish-British politician, playwright and writer (1751-1816)

*October 30th, 1751, Dublin †July 7th, 1816, Seoul

78

Maria Anna Mozart

Austrian musician

*July 30th, 1751, Salzburg †October 29th, 1829, Salzburg

76

Francisco Salva Campillo

Spanish/Catalan prominent late-Enlightenment period scientist

*July 12th, 1751, Barcelona †February 13th, 1828, Barcelona

75

Johann Heinrich Voss

German poet and classics translator

*February 20th, 1751, Sommerstorf †March 29th, 1826, Heidelberg

68

Peleg Arnold

Jurist and US congress member (1751-1820)

*June 10th, 1751, Smithfield †January 1st, 1820, Smithfield

80

Karl Ludwig Nitzsch

German theologian

*August 6th, 1751, Lutherstadt Wittenberg †December 5th, 1831, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

66

Étienne-François Letourneur

French general and politician (1751-1817)

*March 15th, 1751, Granville †October 4th, 1817, Laeken

80

Nikolaus Simrock

Musician

*August 23rd, 1751, Mainz †June 12th, 1832, Bonn

67

François-Rodolphe de Weiss

Swiss politician, philosopher and diplomat (1751-1818)

*May 6th, 1751, Yverdon-les-Bains †July 21st, 1818, Coppet

54

Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki

Polish general

*February 20th, 1751, Chervonohrad †March 14th, 1805, Tulchyn

80

Joseph Lange

Austrian actor and artist (1751-1831)

*April 1st, 1751, Würzburg †September 17th, 1831, Vienna

67

Karl Gottlob Anton

Historian (1751-1818)

*July 23rd, 1751, Lubań †November 17th, 1818, Görlitz

69

Cornelis Willem de Rhoer

Dutch historian and writer (1751-1821)

*September 26th, 1751, Deventer †January 15th, 1821, Utrecht

76

Bartolomeo Campagnoli

Italian musician (1751-1827)

*September 10th, 1751, Cento †November 6th, 1827, Neustrelitz

77

Louis Lefèvre-Gineau

French chemist and scientist (1751-1829)

*March 7th, 1751, Authe †February 3rd, 1829, Paris

51

Ferdinando I, Duke of Parma

Duke of Parma (1751-1802)

*January 20th, 1751, Parma †October 9th, 1802, Fontevivo

61

Emanuel Schikaneder

German actor and singer

*September 1st, 1751, Straubing †September 21st, 1812, Vienna

53

Frederika Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt

Queen consort of Prussia

*October 16th, 1751, Prenzlau †August 14th, 1805, Berlin

87

Thomas Blaikie

Scottish gardener (1751-1838)

*March 2nd, 1751, Edinburgh †July 19th, 1838, former 1st arrondissement of Paris

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1751 is a normal year and no leap year.

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