February 28th, 1971

Born on February 28th, 1971

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 20,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 804 days, exactly on August 27th, 2028, people who were born on February 28th, 1971 will be 21,000 days old!

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What 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.

February 28th, 1914

In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, Greeks living in southern Albania proclaimed the short-lived Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.

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

Born on February 28th, 1971

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Tasha Smith

American actress, director and producer

*February 28th, 1971, Camden

55

Xesús Fraga

Spanish writer

*February 28th, 1971, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

55

Peter Stebbings

Canadian actor

*February 28th, 1971, Vancouver

Same year
Born in 1971

54

Kali Rocha

American actress

*December 5th, 1971, Memphis

55

Susi Susanti

Indonesian badminton player

*February 11th, 1971, Tasikmalaya

54

Christina Cox

Canadian actress

*July 31st, 1971, Toronto

54

David Gauke

British politician and solicitor (born 1971)

*October 8th, 1971, Ipswich

54

Billy Bush

American radio and television host (born 1971)

*October 13th, 1971, Manhattan

55

Helge Sten

Norwegian musician

*January 26th, 1971, Røros Municipality

54

Stephan Groth

Danish-Norwegian singer

*August 10th, 1971, Odense

54

Anna Netrebko

Russian and Austrian operatic soprano

*September 18th, 1971, Krasnodar

54

Elon Musk

Canadian–American businessman (born 1971 in Pretoria)

*June 28th, 1971, Pretoria

54

John 5

American guitarist

*July 31st, 1971, Grosse Pointe

55

Marco Bülow

German politician

*June 14th, 1971, Dortmund

54

Martin Gerster

German politician

*August 30th, 1971, Biberach an der Riss

54

Justin Trudeau

Prime Minister of Canada since 2015

*December 25th, 1971, Ottawa

55

Tarek Al-Wazir

German politician

*January 3rd, 1971, Offenbach am Main

55

Jeremy Renner

American actor, producer, and musician

*January 7th, 1971, Modesto

55

Pep Guardiola

Spanish association football manager (born 1971)

*January 18th, 1971, Santpedor

55

Ewan McGregor

Scottish-American actor

*March 31st, 1971, Perth

54

Lance Armstrong

Cyclist from the United States

*September 18th, 1971, Plano

54

Julian Assange

Australian editor, publisher, and activist (born 1971)

*July 3rd, 1971, Townsville

55

Idina Menzel

American actress and singer

*May 30th, 1971, Manhattan

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1971 is a normal year and no leap year.

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