February 28th, 1807

Born on February 28th, 1807

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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 1807

75

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet and educator (1807–1882)

*February 27th, 1807, Portland †March 24th, 1882, Cambridge

96

Ernest Legouvé

French dramatist (1807–1903)

*February 14th, 1807, Paris †March 14th, 1903, 2nd arrondissement of Paris

87

Giacomo Durando

Italian general and statesman (1807-1894)

*February 4th, 1807, Mondovì †August 21st, 1894, Rome

79

Sebastiano Tecchio

Italian politician (1807-1886)

*January 3rd, 1807, Vicenza †January 24th, 1886, Venice

84

Jules Grévy

French statesman and lawyer

*August 15th, 1807, Mont-sous-Vaudrey †September 9th, 1891, Mont-sous-Vaudrey

66

Louis Agassiz

Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)

*May 28th, 1807, Môtiers †December 14th, 1873, Cambridge

91

Wilford Woodruff

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1807-1898)

*March 1st, 1807, Farmington †September 2nd, 1898, Salt Lake City

69

Josephine of Leuchtenberg

Swedish queen (1807-1876)

*March 14th, 1807, Milan †June 7th, 1876, Stockholm

79

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

American historical editor, politician and diplomat from Massachusetts (1807-1886)

*August 18th, 1807, Boston †November 21st, 1886, Boston

29

Emily Donelson

Niece of U.S. President Andrew Jackson

*June 1st, 1807, Donelson †December 19th, 1836, Nashville

70

Patricio de la Escosura

Spanish writer (1807-1878)

*November 5th, 1807, Madrid †January 22nd, 1878, Madrid

84

John Greenleaf Whittier

American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery (1807-1892)

*December 17th, 1807, Haverhill †September 7th, 1892, Hampton Falls

40

Robert Blum

German democratic politician (1807-1848)

*November 10th, 1807, Cologne †November 9th, 1848, Brigittenau

39

Carl Bagger

Danish writer (1807–1846)

*May 11th, 1807, Copenhagen †October 25th, 1846, Odense

81

James Lambdin

Painter

*May 10th, 1807, Pittsburgh †January 1st, 1889, Philadelphia

69

Julius Schweikert

German physician (1807–1876)

*April 8th, 1807, Lutherstadt Wittenberg †April 25th, 1876, Moscow

68

Karol Libelt

Polish philosopher, publicist, revolutionary and politician (1807-1875)

*April 8th, 1807, Poznań †June 9th, 1875, Brdów

75

Theobald von Rizy

Austrian jurist and politician

*February 11th, 1807, Vienna †May 18th, 1882, Vienna

62

Karl von Rothkirch-Panthen

Austrian politician, Chairman of Bohemian Diet (1807-1870)

*December 2nd, 1807, Sokolica, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship †March 31st, 1870, Prague

86

Moritz Abraham Stern

German mathematician (1807-1894)

*June 29th, 1807, Frankfurt †January 30th, 1894, Zurich

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1807 is a normal year and no leap year.

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