February 28th, 1757

Born on February 28th, 1757

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 1757

89

Christophine Reinwald

German artist (1757–1847)

*September 4th, 1757, Marbach am Neckar †August 31st, 1847, Meiningen

64

Johann Matthäus Bechstein

German naturalist, forester, ornithologist, entomologist, and herpetologist (1757-1822)

*July 11th, 1757, Waltershausen †February 23rd, 1822, Dreißigacker

69

William Blake

English poet and artist (1757–1827)

*November 28th, 1757, London †August 12th, 1827, Charing Cross

47

Alexander Hamilton

American Founding Father and statesman (1755/1757–1804)

*January 11th, 1757, Charlestown †July 12th, 1804, New York City

97

Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton

American philanthropist and wife of Alexander Hamilton (1757–1854)

*August 9th, 1757, Albany †November 9th, 1854, Washington, D.C.

40

Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet

French diplomat (1757-1797)

*August 19th, 1757, Baton Rouge †December 17th, 1797, Constantinople

79

Charles X of France

King of France from 1824 to 1830

*October 9th, 1757, Versailles †November 6th, 1836, Gorizia

81

Benjamin Pierce

American politician (1757–1839)

*December 25th, 1757, Chelmsford †April 1st, 1839, Hillsborough County

76

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

French general and politician (1757–1834)

*September 6th, 1757, Chavaniac-Lafayette †May 20th, 1834, former 1st arrondissement of Paris

58

Pierre Augereau

General, Marshal of France (1757-1816)

*October 21st, 1757, Paris †June 12th, 1816, La Houssaye-en-Brie

40

George Vancouver

18th-century English naval explorer

*June 22nd, 1757, King's Lynn †May 10th, 1798, Petersham

86

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1801 to 1804

*May 30th, 1757, London Borough of Camden †February 15th, 1844, White Lodge

83

John Adair

American politician (1757–1840)

*January 9th, 1757, Chester County †May 19th, 1840, Harrodsburg

61

Erik Acharius

Swedish botanist (1757–1819)

*October 10th, 1757, Gävle Parish †August 14th, 1819, Vadstena church församling

48

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

English socialite, style icon, author, and activist

*June 7th, 1757, Althorp †March 30th, 1806, Devonshire House

65

Karl Leonhard Reinhold

Austrian philosopher

*October 26th, 1757, Vienna †April 10th, 1823, Kiel

69

Royall Tyler

American playwright and jurist

*June 18th, 1757, Boston †August 26th, 1826, Brattleboro

77

Georg Christian Franz Kübel

German politician (1757-1834)

*April 6th, 1757, Heilbronn †September 30th, 1834, Heilbronn

55

Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach

German politician (1757-1813)

*August 25th, 1757, Berlin †June 8th, 1813, Berlin

54

Samuel McIntire

American architect (1757-1811)

*January 16th, 1757, Salem †February 6th, 1811, Salem

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1757 is a normal year and no leap year.

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