About February 28

February 28, 2023 is the 59th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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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 347 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On February 28

  • 1700 –
    Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
  • 1710 –
    In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.
  • 1838 –
    Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
  • 1885 –
    The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
  • 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.
  • 1922 –
    The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
  • 1928 –
    C.V. Raman discovers Raman effect.
  • 1933 –
    Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
  • 1935 –
    DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
  • 1939 –
    The erroneous word “dord” is discovered in the Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 1959 –
    Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object to achieve a polar orbit, is launched.
  • 1972 –
    Sino-American relations: The United States and People’s Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
  • 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.
  • 1991 –
    The first Gulf War ends.
  • 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
  • 2004 –
    Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500 km long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947

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