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FEBRUARY 28, 1897
Ranavalona III (pictured), the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by French military forces.
Ranavalona III was the last sovereign of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She ruled from 30 July 1883 to 28 February 1897 in Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1947
Nationalist soldiers fired on protesters in Taipei (crowd pictured), triggering widespread uprisings and violent suppression in the White Terror.
The Nationalist government, officially the National Government of the Republic of China, refers to the government of the Republic of China from Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1874
In one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court, the claimant in the Tichborne case was convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
The Tichborne case was a legal cause célèbre that fascinated Victorian Britain in the 1860s and 1870s. It concerned the claims by Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1985
The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launched a mortar attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary station in Newry, Northern Ireland, killing nine people.
The Troubles were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1972
Japanese police stormed a mountain lodge near Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, to end a ten-day siege by members of the paramilitary group United Red Army.
Law enforcement in Japan is provided mainly by prefectural police under the oversight of the National Police Agency. The National Police Agency Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Bus drivers in Greater Manchester began an eleven-week strike, one of the longest in British transportation history.
Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders Lancashire to the north, Derbyshire and West Yorkshire to the Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 2013
Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.
Pope Benedict XVI was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 2001
A high-speed train crash occurred near Selby in North Yorkshire, England, killing 10 and injuring 82.
The Selby rail crash was a railway accident that occurred on 28 February 2001 near Great Heck, Selby, North Yorkshire when a Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1638
The National Covenant was formally adopted in opposition to proposed reforms to the Church of Scotland by King Charles I.
The National Covenant was an agreement signed by many people of Scotland during 1638, opposing the proposed Laudian reforms of the Church Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1975
A London Underground train failed to stop at the terminal Moorgate station, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people.
The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1893
USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, was launched.
USS Indiana was the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1997
Two heavily armed bank robbers exchanged gunfire with officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, in one of the most intense gun battles in American police history.
The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 202 BC
Rebel leader Liu Bang declared himself Emperor Gaozu of Han after overthrowing the Qin dynasty, the first imperial dynasty of China.
Emperor Gaozu of Han, also known by his given name Liu Bang, was the founder and first emperor of the Han dynasty, Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1904
The most successful football club in Portugal, S.L. Benfica (first team pictured), was founded in Lisbon as Sport Lisboa.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1914
In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, Greeks living in southern Albania proclaimed the short-lived Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.
The Balkan Wars were two conflicts that took place in the Balkan states in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 2002
During a period of religious violence in Gujarat, India, mobs of Hindus attacked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and in Chamanpura, resulting in 166 deaths.
The 2002 Gujarat riots, also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence or the Gujarat pogrom, was a three-day period of inter-communal violence Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1997
GRB 970228, a highly luminous 80-second flash of gamma rays, was detected on Earth, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
GRB 970228 was the first gamma-ray burst (GRB) for which an afterglow was observed. It was detected on 28 February 1997 at Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1974
The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Liberal Party, under Jeremy Thorpe, achieved their highest ever number of votes.
The February 1974 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 28 February 1974. The Labour Party, led by former Prime Minister Read More
FEBRUARY 28, 1928
Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his colleagues discovered what is now known as Raman scattering, for which he later became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that Read More

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