About February 28
February 28, 2024 is the 59th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 307 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 336 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.
- 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.
- 1838 –Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
- 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.
- 1849 –Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.
- 1893 –The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
- 1922 –The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
- 1935 –DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
- 1940 –Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
- 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.
- 1954 –The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
- 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.
- 1986 –Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
- 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 –The North Hollywood shootout takes place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators.
- 2001 –Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
- 2005 –A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
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