February 28th, 1968

Born on February 28th, 1968

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What 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.

February 28th, 1897

Ranavalona III, the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by French military forces.

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

Born on February 28th, 1968

56

Eric Van Meir

Belgian footballer

*February 28th, 1968, Brecht

56

Gregor Stähli

Skeleton racer

*February 28th, 1968, Zürich

56

Varsha Usgaonkar

Indian actress

*February 28th, 1968, Goa

56

Teresa Cristina

Brazilian musician

*February 28th, 1968, Rio de Janeiro

56

Marcus Adam

British sprinter and bobsledder

*February 28th, 1968, London

56

José Ordóñez Jr.

Colombian pastor

*February 28th, 1968, Bogotá

56

Éric Le Chanony

French bobsledder

*February 28th, 1968, Amiens

56

Stéphan Lebeau

Canadian ice hockey player

*February 28th, 1968, Saint-Jérôme

56

Jorge Enrique Abello

Telenovela actor

*February 28th, 1968, Bogotá

56

Jung Chan-woo

South Korean comedian

*February 28th, 1968, South Korea

56

Curt Kaplan

American actor

*February 28th, 1968, Albuquerque

56

Anne Tremko

American actress

*February 28th, 1968, Urbana

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

55

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

42

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

28

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

43

Craig Cooper

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1981, Wellington

58

Philip Reeve

English children's writer and illustrator

*February 28th, 1966, Brighton

45

Ask Hasselbalch

Danish film director

*February 28th, 1979, Copenhagen

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

50

Christine Adams

German pole vaulter

*February 28th, 1974, Georgsmarienhütte

57

Jeff Pfaendtner

American rower

*February 28th, 1967, Detroit

52

Jan Boven

Road bicycle racer

*February 28th, 1972, Delfzijl

57

Seth Rudetsky

American journalist

*February 28th, 1967, North Woodmere

76

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

54

Daniel Handler

American novelist, also known by the pseudonym Lemony Snicket

*February 28th, 1970, San Francisco

66

Christina Lathan

East German sprinter

*February 28th, 1958, Altdöbern

59

Colum McCann

Irish writer and journalist

*February 28th, 1965, Dublin

71

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

*February 28th, 1953, Albany

48

Ali Larter

American actress and model

*February 28th, 1976, Cherry Hill

77

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

Same year
Born in 1968

55

Casper Van Dien

American actor

*December 18th, 1968, Milton

55

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Danish actress

*November 22nd, 1968, Copenhagen

55

Peter Runggaldier

Italian alpine skier

*December 29th, 1968, Brixen

55

Chris Hunt

English badminton player

*December 1st, 1968, Bolton

55

Massi Furlan

Italian-American actor and film producer

*September 29th, 1968, Treviso

56

Minarti Timur

Indonesian badminton player, coach

*March 24th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Alan Budikusuma

Badminton player

*March 29th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Céline Dion

Canadian singer (born 1968)

*March 30th, 1968, Charlemagne

56

Rexy Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 9th, 1968, Ternate Island

55

Hugh Jackman

Australian actor (born 1968)

*October 12th, 1968, Sydney

56

Petra Schubert

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1968, Finsterwalde

55

Darren Le Tissier

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1968, Bailiwick of Guernsey

56

Árni Þór Hallgrímsson

Badminton player

*March 10th, 1968, Akranes

55

Marine Le Pen

French politician (born 1968)

*August 5th, 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine

56

Monica Mæland

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*February 6th, 1968, Bergen

55

Gillian Anderson

American-British actress (born 1968)

*August 9th, 1968, Chicago

55

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

Croatian politician and diplomat

*April 29th, 1968, Rijeka

55

Larry Sanger

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects

*July 16th, 1968, Bellevue

55

Ralph Brinkhaus

German politician

*June 15th, 1968, Wiedenbrück

55

Kylie Minogue

Australian singer and actress (born 1968)

*May 28th, 1968, Melbourne

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Leap year

Yes: 1968 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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