February 28th, 2024

Born on February 28th, 2024

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What happened on February 28th, 2024?

February 28th, 2024

Prime Minister Modi of India inaugurated the 2nd Space Port of India - Kulasekarapattinam Spaceport.

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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, 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

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

*February 28th, 1995, Metuchen

45

Ask Hasselbalch

Danish film director

*February 28th, 1979, Copenhagen

55

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

36

Markéta Irglová

Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress

*February 28th, 1988, Valašské Meziříčí

67

Gilbert Gottfried

American stand-up comedian (1955–2022)

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

76

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

67

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

93

Linus Pauling

American scientist

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

25

Luka Dončić

Slovenian basketball player

*February 28th, 1999, Ljubljana

77

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

31

Emmelie de Forest

Danish singer

*February 28th, 1993, Randers

50

Christine Adams

German pole vaulter

*February 28th, 1974, Georgsmarienhütte

71

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

*February 28th, 1953, Albany

89

Charles Durning

American actor (1923-2012)

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

76

Steven Chu

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

*February 28th, 1948, St. Louis

85

Tommy Tune

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

*February 28th, 1939, Wichita Falls

31

Lindon Victor

Grenadian male decathlete

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

66

Christina Lathan

East German sprinter

*February 28th, 1958, Altdöbern

93

Hans-Joachim Martens

German film actor and stage actor

*February 28th, 1925, Berlin †March 3rd, 2018, Berlin

84

Don Francks

Canadian actor and jazz musician (1932–2016)

*February 28th, 1932, Burnaby †April 3rd, 2016, Toronto

80

Kelly Bishop

American actress

*February 28th, 1944, Colorado Springs

48

Ali Larter

American actress and model

*February 28th, 1976, Cherry Hill

38

Kingsley Ben-Adir

British actor

*February 28th, 1986, Gospel Oak

42

Natalia Vodianova

Russian model

*February 28th, 1982, Nizhny Novgorod

67

Ainsley Harriott

English chef, television presenter, and entertainer

*February 28th, 1957, Northampton

52

Jan Boven

Road bicycle racer

*February 28th, 1972, Delfzijl

94

Leon Cooper

American physicist

*February 28th, 1930, New York City

39

Esther Lofgren

American rower

*February 28th, 1985, Long Beach

28

Bobb'e J. Thompson

American actor

*February 28th, 1996, Kansas City

58

Philip Reeve

English children's writer and illustrator

*February 28th, 1966, Brighton

85

Daniel C. Tsui

Chinese-American physicist, Nobel laureate

*February 28th, 1939, Baofeng County

82

Dino Zoff

Italian association football player and manager

*February 28th, 1942, Mariano del Friuli

51

Pierre Fatou

French mathematician and astronomer

*February 28th, 1878, Lorient †August 9th, 1929, Pornichet

80

Sepp Maier

German footballer

*February 28th, 1944, Metten

37

Antonio Candreva

Italian association football player

*February 28th, 1987, Rome

29

Sholto Carnegie

British rower

*February 28th, 1995, London

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Yes: 2024 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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