February 28th, 2279

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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

Birthdays and future age on February 28th, 2279

323

Liem Swie King

Indonesian badminton player

*February 28th, 1956, Kudus

283

Shi Yuqi

Chinese badminton player

*February 28th, 1996, Nantong

297

Verena Bentele

German paralympic biathlete and politician (SPD)

*February 28th, 1982, Lindau

298

Craig Cooper

Badminton player

*February 28th, 1981, Wellington

331

Bernadette Peters

American actress and singer

*February 28th, 1948, Queens

300

Ask Hasselbalch

Danish film director

*February 28th, 1979, Copenhagen

310

Robert Sean Leonard

American actor

*February 28th, 1969, Westwood

322

John Turturro

American actor (born 1957)

*February 28th, 1957, Brooklyn

284

Quinn Shephard

American actress

*February 28th, 1995, Metuchen

332

Stephanie Beacham

British actress

*February 28th, 1947, Barnet

291

Markéta Irglová

Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress

*February 28th, 1988, Valašské Meziříčí

340

Tommy Tune

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

*February 28th, 1939, Wichita Falls

326

Paul Krugman

American economist (born 1953)

*February 28th, 1953, Albany

331

Steven Chu

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

*February 28th, 1948, St. Louis

335

Kelly Bishop

American actress

*February 28th, 1944, Colorado Springs

321

Christina Lathan

East German sprinter

*February 28th, 1958, Altdöbern

305

Christine Adams

German pole vaulter

*February 28th, 1974, Georgsmarienhütte

349

Leon Cooper

American physicist

*February 28th, 1930, New York City

322

Ainsley Harriott

English chef, television presenter, and entertainer

*February 28th, 1957, Northampton

303

Ali Larter

American actress and model

*February 28th, 1976, Cherry Hill

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