February 28th, 1805

Born on February 28th, 1805

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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 1805

70

Eugène Schneider

French businessman and French civil law notary (1805-1875)

*March 29th, 1805, Bidestroff †November 27th, 1875, 9th arrondissement of Paris

38

Joseph Smith

Founder of the Latter Day Saint movement (1805–1844)

*December 23rd, 1805, Sharon †June 27th, 1844, Carthage

66

Hugo von Mohl

German botanist (1805–1872)

*April 8th, 1805, Stuttgart †April 1st, 1872, Tübingen

53

Alexis de Tocqueville

French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)

*July 29th, 1805, Paris †April 16th, 1859, Cannes

66

Giuseppe Mazzini

Italian nationalist activist, politician, journalist and philosopher

*June 22nd, 1805, Genoa †March 10th, 1872, Pisa

60

William Rowan Hamilton

Irish mathematician and astronomer

*August 4th, 1805, Dublin †September 2nd, 1865, Dublin

73

Frederick Smith

British entomologist (1805–1879)

*December 30th, 1805, London †February 16th, 1879

89

Ferdinand de Lesseps

French diplomat and entrepreneur, developer of the Suez Canal

*November 19th, 1805, Versailles †December 7th, 1894, Guilly

71

Carl Timoleon von Neff

Baltic German artist (1804–1876)

*October 2nd, 1805, Püssi †December 24th, 1876, Saint Petersburg

63

Thomas Graham

Chemist (1805–1869)

*December 20th, 1805, Glasgow †September 11th, 1869, London

71

John Stevens Cabot Abbott

American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, (1805-1877)

*September 19th, 1805, Brunswick †June 17th, 1877, New Haven

59

Robert Fitzroy

Royal Navy officer and scientist (1805–1865)

*July 5th, 1805, Ampton Hall †April 30th, 1865, London

73

William Lloyd Garrison

American journalist and abolitionist

*December 10th, 1805, Newburyport †May 24th, 1879, New York City

75

Louis Auguste Blanqui

French socialist and political activist (1805-1881)

*February 8th, 1805, Puget-Théniers †January 1st, 1881, Paris

68

Franz Xaver Winterhalter

German painter

*April 20th, 1805, Menzenschwand †July 8th, 1873, Frankfurt

56

Jonas Furrer

Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1805-1861)

*March 3rd, 1805, Winterthur †July 25th, 1861, Bad Ragaz

70

Marie d'Agoult

Franco-German romantic author and historian (1805-1876)

*December 31st, 1805, Frankfurt †March 5th, 1876, Paris

220

Hilario Lagos

Argentine military personnel

*November 30th, 1805, Buenos Aires

67

Juana de Vega

Spanish writer (1805-1872)

*March 7th, 1805, A Coruña †June 22nd, 1872, A Coruña

87

John Obadiah Westwood

English entomologist and archaeologist (1805-1893)

*December 22nd, 1805, Sheffield †January 2nd, 1893, Oxford

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1805 is a normal year and no leap year.

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