February 28th, 1958

Born on February 28th, 1958

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What happened on February 28th, 1958?

February 28th, 1958

A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_County,_Kentucky

What else 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.

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

Born on February 28th, 1958

68

Christina Lathan

East German sprinter

*February 28th, 1958, Altdöbern

68

Jeanne Mas

French pop singer

*February 28th, 1958, Alicante

68

Eduardo Blanco

Argentine naturalized Spanish actor

*February 28th, 1958, Buenos Aires

63

Mark Pavelich

American ice hockey player

*February 28th, 1958, Eveleth †March 4th, 2021, Sauk Centre

68

Ingela Olsson

Swedish actress

*February 28th, 1958, Nybro

Same year
Born in 1958

50

Michael Jackson

American singer, songwriter, and dancer (1958–2009)

*August 29th, 1958, Gary †June 25th, 2009, Los Angeles

68

Gary Numan

English musician (born 1958)

*March 8th, 1958, Hammersmith

67

Jah Wobble

British bass guitarist and music producer (born 1958)

*August 11th, 1958, Stepney

68

Jane Wiedlin

American musician

*May 20th, 1958, Oconomowoc

68

Jon Cassar

Maltese-Canadian director and producer

*April 27th, 1958, Crown Colony of Malta

68

Jello Biafra

American singer and activist (born 1958)

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

68

Wayne Hussey

English musician, singer of The Mission

*May 26th, 1958, Bristol

68

Olaf Scholz

German politician (SPD), ninth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (2021-2025), Member of the Bundestag

*June 14th, 1958, Osnabrück

67

Madonna

American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)

*August 16th, 1958, Bay City

67

Ursula von der Leyen

President of the European Commission since 2019

*October 8th, 1958, Ixelles - Elsene

68

Glenn Gregory

English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist

*May 16th, 1958, Sheffield

68

Dietmar Bartsch

German politician

*March 31st, 1958, Stralsund

60

Chicho Sibilio

Spanish basketball player and coach (1958–2019)

*October 3rd, 1958, San Cristóbal †August 10th, 2019, San Gregorio de Nigua

64

Jens Arentzen

Danish actor

*March 2nd, 1958, Frederiksberg †November 22nd, 2022

68

Peter Altmaier

German politician

*June 18th, 1958, Ensdorf

68

Alec Baldwin

American actor

*April 3rd, 1958, Amityville

68

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

68

Frank Pagelsdorf

German association football player and manager

*February 5th, 1958, Hanover

68

Dieter Althaus

German politician

*June 29th, 1958, Heilbad Heiligenstadt

68

Harald Sicheritz

Austrian screenwriter and film director

*June 25th, 1958, Stockholm

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No: With 365 days 1958 is a normal year and no leap year.

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