February 28th, 1997

Born on February 28th, 1997

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What happened on February 28th, 1997?

February 28th, 1997

A Turkish military memorandum resulted in the collapse of the coalition government in Turkey.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Turkish_military_memorandum

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

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, 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, 1997

27

Michael Storer

Australian bicycle racer

*February 28th, 1997, Perth

27

Kyōko Yoshine

Japanese actress (1997-)

*February 28th, 1997, Tokyo

27

Leon Glatzer

German surfer

*February 28th, 1997, Maui

27

Chris Lindstrom

American football player (born 1997)

*February 28th, 1997, Dudley

27

Kristina Sivkova

Russian athlete

*February 28th, 1997, Kormilovka

27

Erec Bruckert

German bobsledder

*February 28th, 1997, Spremberg

27

Mustapha Bundu

Association football player

*February 28th, 1997, Freetown

27

Jordan Murphy

American basketball player

*February 28th, 1997, San Antonio

27

Brayan Caicedo

Association football player

*February 28th, 1997, Popayán

27

Ace Austin

American professional wrestler

*February 28th, 1997, Atlantic City

27

Brock Anderson

American professional wrestler

*February 28th, 1997, Charlotte

27

Kathleen Baker

American swimmer

*February 28th, 1997, Winston-Salem

27

Mohamed Camara

Guinean association football player (1997-)

*February 28th, 1997, Matam, Guinea

27

David DiLeo

American basketball player

*February 28th, 1997, Iowa City

27

Andrea Sánchez Falcón

Spanish association football player

*February 28th, 1997, Arucas

27

Iván Gómez

Footballer, born 1997

*February 28th, 1997, La Plata

27

Olivia Scriven

Canadian film actor and actor

*February 28th, 1997, Wakefield

27

Ben Tilney

Association football player

*February 28th, 1997, Luton

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

28

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

29

Quinn Shephard

American actress

*February 28th, 1995, Metuchen

42

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

25

Luka Dončić

Slovenian basketball player

*February 28th, 1999, Ljubljana

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

28

Bobb'e J. Thompson

American actor

*February 28th, 1996, Kansas City

36

Markéta Irglová

Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress

*February 28th, 1988, Valašské Meziříčí

45

Ask Hasselbalch

Danish film director

*February 28th, 1979, Copenhagen

28

Niels Van Zandweghe

Belgian rower

*February 28th, 1996, Bruges

31

Lindon Victor

Grenadian male decathlete

*February 28th, 1993, St. George's

26

Jana Münster

German actress

*February 28th, 1998, Mannheim

31

Emmelie de Forest

Danish singer

*February 28th, 1993, Randers

55

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

29

Sholto Carnegie

British rower

*February 28th, 1995, London

67

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

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

25

Hannes Delcroix

Belgian footballer (born 1999)

*February 28th, 1999, Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite

67

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

76

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

38

Kingsley Ben-Adir

British actor

*February 28th, 1986, Gospel Oak

50

Christine Adams

German pole vaulter

*February 28th, 1974, Georgsmarienhütte

Same year
Born in 1997

26

Zara Larsson

Swedish singer and songwriter

*December 16th, 1997, Solna Municipality

27

Zheng Siwei

Chinese badminton player

*February 26th, 1997, Wenzhou

27

Bad Gyal

Spanish singer

*March 7th, 1997, Vilassar de Mar

27

Victor Leksell

Swedish singer

*April 4th, 1997, Torslanda

27

Becky G

American singer and actress

*March 2nd, 1997, Inglewood

26

Dechapol Puavaranukroh

Thai badminton player

*May 20th, 1997, Chonburi

27

Li Yinhui

Chinese badminton player

*March 11th, 1997, Wuhan

27

Princesa Alba

Chilean singer

*February 16th, 1997, Santiago

26

Leony

German pop singer

*June 25th, 1997, Chammünster

26

Yuta Watanabe

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1997, Suginami-ku

27

Chloë Grace Moretz

American actress (born 1997)

*February 10th, 1997, Atlanta

27

Bella Poarch

American singer and social media personality (born 1997)

*February 9th, 1997, Philippines

26

Chirag Shetty

Indian badminton player

*July 4th, 1997, Mumbai

26

Raye

British singer and songwriter

*October 24th, 1997, Tooting

27

Aaron Chia Teng Fong

Malaysian badminton player

*February 24th, 1997, Malacca

26

Dardan

German rapper

*October 2nd, 1997, Stuttgart

26

Apache 207

German rapper

*October 23rd, 1997, Ludwigshafen

26

Charles Leclerc

Monegasque racing driver

*October 16th, 1997, Monte Carlo

26

Malala Yousafzai

Pakistani children's education activist

*July 12th, 1997, Mingora

26

Fabian Reese

German association football player

*November 29th, 1997, Kiel

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No: With 365 days 1997 is a normal year and no leap year.

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