February 28th, 1810

Born on February 28th, 1810

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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 1810

39

Frédéric Chopin

Polish composer and pianist (1810–1849)

*February 22nd, 1810, Żelazowa Wola †October 17th, 1849, Paris

46

Robert Schumann

German composer, pianist and critic (1810–1856)

*June 8th, 1810, Zwickau †July 29th, 1856, Endenich

82

Bertha von Marenholtz-Bülow

German educator, editor (1810–1893)

*March 5th, 1810, Küblingen †January 9th, 1893, Dresden

71

Theodor Schwann

German physiologist

*December 7th, 1810, Santiago †January 11th, 1882, Cologne

25

Karel Hynek Mácha

Czech poet, traveller, playwright, lawyer and writer (1810–1836)

*November 16th, 1810, Prague †November 6th, 1836, Litoměřice

80

P. T. Barnum

American showman and politician (1810–1891)

*July 5th, 1810, Bethel †April 7th, 1891, Bridgeport

65

Francesco Maria Piave

Italian librettist

*May 18th, 1810, Murano †March 5th, 1876, Milan

73

Juan Bautista Alberdi

Argentinian politician

*August 29th, 1810, San Miguel de Tucumán †June 19th, 1884, Neuilly-sur-Seine

74

Francisco Serrano, 1st Duke of la Torre

Spanish noble and politician (1810-1885)

*December 17th, 1810, Isla de León †November 26th, 1885, Madrid

93

Leo XIII

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903

*March 2nd, 1810, Carpineto Romano †July 20th, 1903, Rome

46

Alfred de Musset

French writer (1810-1857)

*December 11th, 1810, Paris †May 2nd, 1857, Paris

55

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

British author

*September 29th, 1810, London †November 12th, 1865, Alton

75

Edmond Boissier

Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician (1810-1885)

*May 25th, 1810, Geneva †September 25th, 1885, Valeyres-sous-Rances

78

James Freeman Clarke

American theologian and writer (1810–1888)

*April 4th, 1810, Hanover †June 8th, 1888, Jamaica Plain

67

Henri Victor Regnault

French physicist

*July 21st, 1810, Aachen †January 19th, 1878, Paris

72

Hugh Allan

Shipping magnate, financier and capitalist

*September 29th, 1810, Saltcoats †December 9th, 1882, Edinburgh

83

Ernst Kummer

German mathematician

*January 29th, 1810, Żary †May 14th, 1893, Berlin

77

Asa Gray

American botanist (1810–1888)

*November 18th, 1810, Paris †January 30th, 1888, Cambridge

82

Ferenc Erkel

Hungarian composer, conductor and pianist (1810–1893)

*November 7th, 1810, Gyula †June 25th, 1893, Budapest

50

Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea

British politician (1810-1861)

*September 16th, 1810, Richmond †August 2nd, 1861, Wilton House

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1810 is a normal year and no leap year.

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