February 28th, 1966

Born on February 28th, 1966

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What happened on February 28th, 1966?

February 28th, 1966

A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory while attempting a poor-visibility landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, killing astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_T-38_Talon

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, 1966

58

Philip Reeve

English children's writer and illustrator

*February 28th, 1966, Brighton

58

Paulo Futre

Portuguese association football player

*February 28th, 1966, Montijo

58

Margret Völker

German actress

*February 28th, 1966, Hamburg

58

Vincent Askew

American basketball player-coach

*February 28th, 1966, Memphis

58

Antonio Delli

Venezuelan actor

*February 28th, 1966, Caracas

58

Vincent Sabatier

French poet

*February 28th, 1966, Saint-Étienne

58

Éric Dubus

French middle and long distance runner

*February 28th, 1966, Pézenas

58

Jovan of Kruševo and Demirhisar

Eastern Orthodox cleric and head of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric

*February 28th, 1966, Bitola

58

Marco Ferreira

Portuguese footballer

*February 28th, 1966, Vimioso

58

Ickey Woods

American football running back

*February 28th, 1966, Fresno

58

Edward Shearmur

British composer

*February 28th, 1966, Florida

51

Kazunori Mizuno

Japanese film director (1966-2017)

*February 28th, 1966, Kyoto Prefecture †March 19th, 2017

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

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

55

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

42

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

28

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

59

Colum McCann

Irish writer and journalist

*February 28th, 1965, Dublin

67

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

43

Craig Cooper

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1981, Wellington

67

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

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

45

Ask Hasselbalch

Danish film director

*February 28th, 1979, Copenhagen

57

Jeff Pfaendtner

American rower

*February 28th, 1967, Detroit

76

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

57

Seth Rudetsky

American journalist

*February 28th, 1967, North Woodmere

66

Christina Lathan

East German sprinter

*February 28th, 1958, Altdöbern

50

Christine Adams

German pole vaulter

*February 28th, 1974, Georgsmarienhütte

71

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

*February 28th, 1953, Albany

52

Jan Boven

Road bicycle racer

*February 28th, 1972, Delfzijl

77

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

67

Ainsley Harriott

English chef, television presenter, and entertainer

*February 28th, 1957, Northampton

61

Pepe Mel

Spanish footballer and football coach

*February 28th, 1963, Madrid

76

Steven Chu

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

*February 28th, 1948, St. Louis

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57

Jimmy Wales

Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1966)

*August 7th, 1966, Huntsville

57

Diedrich Bader

American actor

*December 24th, 1966, Alexandria

57

Marcus Marin

German football player and manager

*December 13th, 1966, Hamburg

56

Sinéad O'Connor

Irish singer-songwriter (1966–2023)

*December 8th, 1966, Glenageary †July 26th, 2023, London

57

David Cameron

British politician (born 1966)

*October 9th, 1966, Marylebone

57

Kiefer Sutherland

British-Canadian actor

*December 21st, 1966, St. Mary's Hospital

57

Hwang Hye-young

South Korean badminton player

*July 16th, 1966, Jeungpyeong County

57

Olaf Thon

German association football player and manager

*May 1st, 1966, Gelsenkirchen

57

Lutz Heilmann

German politician

*September 7th, 1966, Zittau

58

Thomas Doll

German association football player and manager

*April 9th, 1966, Malchin

58

Olaf Marschall

German association football player and manager (1966–)

*March 19th, 1966, Torgau

57

Irina Serova

Badminton player

*May 14th, 1966, Soviet Union

58

Markus Schupp

German association football player and manager

*January 7th, 1966, Idar-Oberstein

57

Thomas Häßler

German footballer

*May 30th, 1966, West Berlin

58

Ludwig Kögl

German footballer

*March 7th, 1966, Penzberg

58

Catrin Striebeck

German actress

*April 18th, 1966, Vienna

58

Urs Fischer

Swiss association football player and manager (born 1966)

*February 20th, 1966, Triengen

57

Kristian Eidnes Andersen

Danish composer

*July 2nd, 1966, Faxe

58

Marin Hinkle

American actress

*March 23rd, 1966, Dar es Salaam

57

Rudy Gunawan

Badminton player

*December 31st, 1966, Surakarta City

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No: With 365 days 1966 is a normal year and no leap year.

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