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
- 1700 –Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
- 1811 –Cry of Asencio, begin of the Uruguayan War of Independence
- 1854 –The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
- 1870 –The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
- 1883 –The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1897 –Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
- 1900 –The Second Boer War: The 118-day “Siege of Ladysmith” is lifted.
- 1914 –The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
- 1922 –The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
- 1928 –C.V. Raman discovers Raman effect.
- 1939 –The erroneous word “dord” is discovered in the Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
- 1947 –228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
- 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 the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.
- 1959 –Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object to achieve a polar orbit, is launched.
- 1980 –Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
- 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 –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.
- 2001 –The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
- 2005 –A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
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