About February 28
February 28, 2025 is the 59th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Pisces is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 354 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 28
- 202 BC –coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty’s rule over China
- 870 –The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
- 1811 –Cry of Asencio, begin of the Uruguayan War of Independence
- 1827 –The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
- 1844 –A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members.
- 1870 –The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1897 –Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
- 1914 –The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
- 1933 –Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
- 1942 –The heavy cruiser USS Houston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men.
- 1947 –228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
- 1953 –James D. 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).
- 1986 –Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
- 1991 –The first Gulf War ends.
- 1993 –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 BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
- 1997 –An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
- 1997 –An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in Armenia and Azerbaijan kills around 1,100 people
- 1997 –The North Hollywood shootout takes place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators.
- 1998 –Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
- 2001 –Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
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