February 28th, 2013

Born on February 28th, 2013

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What happened on February 28th, 2013?

February 28th, 2013

Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so since Pope Gregory XII in 1415.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI

February 28th, 2013

Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI

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, 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

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

28

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

42

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

43

Craig Cooper

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1981, Wellington

29

Quinn Shephard

American actress

*February 28th, 1995, Metuchen

45

Ask Hasselbalch

Danish film director

*February 28th, 1979, Copenhagen

36

Markéta Irglová

Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress

*February 28th, 1988, Valašské Meziříčí

55

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

25

Luka Dončić

Slovenian basketball player

*February 28th, 1999, Ljubljana

67

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

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

67

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

76

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

31

Emmelie de Forest

Danish singer

*February 28th, 1993, Randers

93

Linus Pauling

American scientist

*February 28th, 1901, Portland †August 18th, 1994, Big Sur

77

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

31

Lindon Victor

Grenadian male decathlete

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

50

Christine Adams

German pole vaulter

*February 28th, 1974, Georgsmarienhütte

71

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

*February 28th, 1953, Albany

76

Steven Chu

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

*February 28th, 1948, St. Louis

89

Charles Durning

American actor (1923-2012)

*February 28th, 1923, Highland Falls †December 24th, 2012, New York City

Same year
Born in 2013

10

Prince George of Wales

Eldest child of William, Prince of Wales, and Catherine, Princess of Wales

*July 22nd, 2013, St. Mary's Hospital

10

Taufaʻahau Manumataongo

Tongan royal

*May 10th, 2013, Auckland

11

Zaid Al-Hammadi

Association football player

*February 14th, 2013, United Arab Emirates

10

Maceo Martinez

American actor

*October 5th, 2013, Los Angeles

11

Kim Ju-ae

Daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his wife Ri Sol-ju

*February 19th, 2013, Pyongyang

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No: With 365 days 2013 is a normal year and no leap year.

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