February 28th, 1787

Born on February 28th, 1787

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 87,000 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 1787

63

Louis Daguerre

French photographer, inventor of Daguerrotype (1787–1851)

*November 18th, 1787, Cormeilles-en-Parisis †July 10th, 1851, Bry-sur-Marne

84

Michele Carafa

Italian opera composer

*November 17th, 1787, Naples †July 26th, 1872, Paris

39

Joseph von Fraunhofer

Bavarian physicist and optical lens manufacturer

*March 6th, 1787, Straubing †June 7th, 1826, Munich

81

Jan Evangelista Purkyně

Czech biologist, physiologist, doctor, inventor and politician (1787–1869)

*December 17th, 1787, Libochovice †July 28th, 1869, Prague

64

Nangklao

Third king of Siam of the Chakri Dynasty

*March 31st, 1787, Grand Palace †April 2nd, 1851, Bangkok

44

Rasmus Rask

Danish linguist

*November 22nd, 1787, Brændekilde †November 14th, 1832, Copenhagen

77

Christian Ludwig Brehm

German pastor and ornithologist (1787-1864)

*January 24th, 1787, Schönau vor dem Walde †June 23rd, 1864, Renthendorf

87

Guillaume Henri Dufour

Swiss army officer, bridge engineer and topographer (1787-1875)

*September 15th, 1787, Constance †July 14th, 1875, Eaux-Vives

79

Adolf Martin Pleischl

Austrian chemist (1787-1867)

*October 10th, 1787, Horní Planá †July 31st, 1867, Dorf an der Enns

75

John J. Crittenden

U.S. Attorney General and politician from Kentucky (1787-1863)

*September 10th, 1787, Versailles †July 26th, 1863, Frankfort

69

Jakob Friedrich Binder

German assessor and politician (1787-1856)

*April 25th, 1787, Oberferrieden †December 26th, 1856, Nuremberg

63

Alexander Alyabyev

Russian composer

*August 4th, 1787, Tobolsk †February 22nd, 1851, Moscow

67

John Davis

Massachusetts congressman and governor (1787-1854)

*January 13th, 1787, Northborough †April 19th, 1854, Worcester

39

Friedrich Krupp

German entrepreneur

*July 17th, 1787, Essen †October 8th, 1826, Essen

73

Leopold von Rauch

(1787-1860)

*February 27th, 1787, Königsberg †November 26th, 1860, Třebívlice

75

Heinrich Adam

German painter (1787–1862)

*January 1st, 1787, Nördlingen †January 1st, 1862, Munich

82

Louis Jacques Maurice de Bonald

Catholic cardinal (1787-1870)

*October 30th, 1787, Millau †February 23rd, 1870, 5th arrondissement of Lyon

66

Carl Carl

Austrian actor (1787-1854)

*November 7th, 1787, Kraków †August 14th, 1854, Bad Ischl

51

Johannes Christiaan Schotel

19th-century painter from the Northern Netherlands (1787-1838)

*November 11th, 1787, Dordrecht †December 21st, 1838, Dordrecht

36

Pierre Antoine Delalande

French naturalist, with the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle de Paris, was sent 1818 to South Africa in order to find animals and plants at the Cape of Good Hope, returned to France 1820 bringing 800-900 living plants.

*March 27th, 1787, Versailles †June 27th, 1823, Paris

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1787 is a normal year and no leap year.

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