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What Happened on February 28th This Day in History

Year	Name
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.
2005	A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
2004	Over one million Taiwanese participate in the 228 Hand-in-Hand rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the February 28 Incident in 1947.
2002	During the religious violence in Gujarat, 97 people are killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in the Gulbarg Society massacre.
2001	The 2001 Nisqually earthquake, having a moment magnitude of 6.8, with epicenter in the southern Puget Sound, damages Seattle metropolitan area.
1997	An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
1997	GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
1997	A Turkish military memorandum resulted with collapse of the government in Turkey.[11][12]
1995	Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the 1993 Australian federal election.
1993	The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four ATF agents and six Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
1991	The first Gulf War ends.
1986	Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
1985	The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
1983	The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale.
1980	Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
1975	In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
1972	China–United States relations: The United States and China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
1966	A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory while attempting a poor-visibility landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, killing astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett.
1959	Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
1958	A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
1953	James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
1948	Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots and looting in Accra.
1947	February 28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians.
1925	The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America.
1922	The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1835	Elias Lönnrot signed and dated the first version of the Kalevala, the so-called foreword to the Old Kalevala.
1638	The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
1525	Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on the order of conquistador Hernán Cortés.
870	The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
202	Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.

Famous People Born on February 28

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Year	Name
1920	Jadwiga Piłsudska, Polish soldier, pilot, and architect (d. 2014)
1956	Francis Hughes, Irish Republican, hunger striker (d. 1981)
1973	Eric Lindros, Canadian ice hockey player
1967	Colin Cooper, English footballer and manager
1939	Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1901	Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
1972	Ville Haapasalo, Finnish actor and screenwriter
1954	Brian Billick, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1971	Junya Nakano, Japanese pianist and composer
1977	Lance Hoyt, American football player and wrestler

Famous People Deaths On February 28

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Date	Name
1936	Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
2003	Chris Brasher, Guyanese-English runner and journalist, co-founded the London Marathon (b. 1928)
2005	Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (b. 1941)
2002	Mary Stuart, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
1932	Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
1975	Neville Cardus, English cricket and music writer (b. 1888)
2016	George Kennedy, American actor (b. 1925)
1882	Adolf Zytogorski, Polish-British chess master and translator (b. c. 1811/1812)
2017	Pierre Pascau, Mauritian-Canadian journalist (b. 1938)
1740	Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal and patron of the arts (b. 1667)