February 28th, 2017

Born on February 28th, 2017

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 2,000 days old!

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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

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

28

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

68

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

42

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

43

Craig Cooper

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1981, Wellington

29

Quinn Shephard

American actress, guionist and directress

*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

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

25

Luka Dončić

Slovenian basketball player

*February 28th, 1999, Ljubljana

93

Linus Pauling

American scientist

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

77

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

50

Christine Adams

German pole vaulter

*February 28th, 1974, Georgsmarienhütte

71

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

*February 28th, 1953, Albany

31

Lindon Victor

Grenadian male decathlete

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

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

85

Tommy Tune

American actor, dancer, singer, theatre director, producer, and choreographer

*February 28th, 1939, Wichita Falls

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7

Puka Nacua

American football player (born 2001)

*May 29th, 2017, Provo

6

Prince Gabriel, Duke of Dalarna

Younger son of Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia of Sweden

*August 31st, 2017, Danderyd Hospital

6

Alana Martina dos Santos Aveiro

Daughter of Cristiano Ronaldo

*November 12th, 2017, Madrid

6

Prince Iskandar of Johor

Johorean Royal

*October 14th, 2017, Sultanah Aminah Hospital

7

Sir Carter

Son of Beyoncé and Jay-Z

*June 13th, 2017, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

7

Rumi Carter

Daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z

*June 13th, 2017, UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 2017 is a normal year and no leap year.

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