February 28th, 1958

Born on February 28th, 1958

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 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, 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, 1958

66

Christina Lathan

East German sprinter

*February 28th, 1958, Altdöbern

66

Marina Wilke

East German coxswain

*February 28th, 1958, Berlin

66

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

66

Ingela Olsson

Swedish actress

*February 28th, 1958, Nybro

66

Jeanne Mas

French pop singer

*February 28th, 1958, Alicante

51

David R. Ross

British historian and writer

*February 28th, 1958, Giffnock †January 2nd, 2010, East Kilbride

54

Manuel Torres Félix

Mexican drug trafficker

*February 28th, 1958, Cosalá †October 13th, 2012, Culiacán

66

Russell Webb

Scottish musician

*February 28th, 1958, Glasgow

66

Ronn Tomassoni

American ice hockey player

*February 28th, 1958, Eveleth

Same Day
Who's birthday is on February 28th?

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

67

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

67

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

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

67

Ainsley Harriott

English chef, television presenter, and entertainer

*February 28th, 1957, Northampton

28

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

71

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

*February 28th, 1953, Albany

42

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

76

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

55

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

43

Craig Cooper

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1981, Wellington

77

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

76

Steven Chu

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

*February 28th, 1948, St. Louis

45

Ask Hasselbalch

Danish film director

*February 28th, 1979, Copenhagen

67

Jan Ceulemans

Belgian association football player

*February 28th, 1957, Lier

80

Kelly Bishop

American actress

*February 28th, 1944, Colorado Springs

68

Thomas Remengesau Jr.

President of Palau

*February 28th, 1956, Koror

85

Tommy Tune

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

*February 28th, 1939, Wichita Falls

50

Christine Adams

German pole vaulter

*February 28th, 1974, Georgsmarienhütte

58

Philip Reeve

English children's writer and illustrator

*February 28th, 1966, Brighton

84

Don Francks

Canadian actor and jazz musician (1932–2016)

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

Same year
Born in 1958

50

Michael Jackson

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

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

66

Gary Numan

English musician (born 1958)

*March 8th, 1958, Hammersmith

65

Jane Wiedlin

American musician

*May 20th, 1958, Oconomowoc

66

Jon Cassar

Maltese-Canadian director and producer

*April 27th, 1958, Valletta

65

Jello Biafra

American singer

*June 17th, 1958, Boulder

65

Wayne Hussey

English musician, singer of The Mission

*May 26th, 1958, Bristol

65

Madonna

American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1958)

*August 16th, 1958, Bay City

65

Olaf Scholz

German politician (SPD) and 9th Federal Chancellor of Germany (since 2021)

*June 14th, 1958, Osnabrück

65

Ursula von der Leyen

President of the European Commission since 2019

*October 8th, 1958, Ixelles - Elsene

65

Glenn Gregory

English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist

*May 16th, 1958, Sheffield

66

Caryl Phillips

Kittian-British writer

*March 13th, 1958, Saint Kitts

64

Jens Arentzen

Danish actor

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

66

Dietmar Bartsch

German politician

*March 31st, 1958, Stralsund

65

Jah Wobble

English bassist, recording artist, songwriter

*August 11th, 1958, Stepney

66

Alec Baldwin

American actor, comedian and producer (born 1958)

*April 3rd, 1958, Amityville

65

Alexander Held

German actor

*October 19th, 1958, Munich

66

Volker Pispers

German cabaret artist

*January 18th, 1958, Rheydt

66

Reinhard Wolters

German historian of classical history and numismatist

*March 14th, 1958, Duisburg

65

Achim Arbeiter

German archaeologist

*September 3rd, 1958, Dierdorf

65

Tim Butler

English songwriter and musician

*December 7th, 1958, Teddington

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

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