February 28th, 1947

Born on February 28th, 1947

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What happened on February 28th, 1947?

February 28th, 1947

February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the death of an estimated 28,000 civilians.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28_incident

February 28th, 1947

Nationalist soldiers fired on protesters in Taipei (crowd pictured), triggering widespread uprisings and violent suppression in the White Terror.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_government

What else happened on February 28th?

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, 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.

February 28th, 1904

The most successful football club in Portugal, S.L. Benfica (first team pictured), was founded in Lisbon as Sport Lisboa.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on February 28th

Born on February 28th, 1947

77

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

77

Jean-Pierre Sueur

French politician

*February 28th, 1947, Boulogne-sur-Mer

77

Włodzimierz Lubański

Polish footballer

*February 28th, 1947, Gliwice

77

Leena Krohn

Finnish writer

*February 28th, 1947, Helsinki

77

Salvador Cabezas

Salvadoran footballer

*February 28th, 1947, San Salvador

77

Leung Ting

Hong Kong wing chun practitioner

*February 28th, 1947, Hong Kong

77

Bernd Arnold

German mountaineer

*February 28th, 1947, Hohnstein

77

Mel Martin

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Chelsea

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Who's birthday is on February 28th?

76

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

76

Steven Chu

American physicist, former United States Secretary of Energy, Nobel laureate

*February 28th, 1948, St. Louis

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

80

Kelly Bishop

American actress

*February 28th, 1944, Colorado Springs

76

Mercedes Ruehl

American actress

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

67

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

*February 28th, 1955, Brooklyn †April 12th, 2022, Manhattan

67

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

71

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

*February 28th, 1953, Albany

28

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

42

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

85

Tommy Tune

American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer

*February 28th, 1939, Wichita Falls

80

Sepp Maier

German footballer

*February 28th, 1944, Metten

55

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

43

Craig Cooper

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1981, Wellington

82

Dino Zoff

Italian association football player and manager

*February 28th, 1942, Mariano del Friuli

78

Sylvain Vasseur

French bicycle racer

*February 28th, 1946, Cappelle-la-Grande

84

Don Francks

Canadian actor and jazz musician (1932–2016)

*February 28th, 1932, Burnaby †April 3rd, 2016, Toronto

66

Christina Lathan

East German sprinter

*February 28th, 1958, Altdöbern

89

Charles Durning

American actor (1923-2012)

*February 28th, 1923, Highland Falls †December 24th, 2012, New York City

45

Ask Hasselbalch

Danish film director

*February 28th, 1979, Copenhagen

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Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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