Historical Events
28 Feb 1638
Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent Greyfriars Edinburgh
28 Feb 1646
Roger Scott tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
28 Feb 1700
Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden thus creating the Swedish calendar
28 Feb 1704
Frenchman Elias Neau opens a school for blacks in NYC
28 Feb 1704
Indians attack Deerfield Mass kill 40 kidnap 100
28 Feb 1708
Slave revolt in Newton Long Island NY results in 11 deaths
28 Feb 1710
In the Battle of Helsingborg 14000 Danish invaders under Jrgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock
28 Feb 1749
1st edition of Henry Fieldings novel Tom Jones published
28 Feb 1759
Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
28 Feb 1778
Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
28 Feb 1787
The charter establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh is granted
28 Feb 1794
US Senate voids Pennsylvanias election of Abraham Gallatin
28 Feb 1810
1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized Philadelphia
28 Feb 1828
Franz Grillparzers Ein Treuer Diener premieres in Vienna
28 Feb 1835
Dr Elias Lnnrot publishes Finnish poem Kalevala
28 Feb 1838
Robert Nelson leader of the Patriotes proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Qubec)
28 Feb 1844
12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer and other high-ranking U.S. federal officials
28 Feb 1844
6th Grand National Mr John Crickmere aboard Discount wins
28 Feb 1849
1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in San Francisco from east coast
28 Feb 1849
11th Grand National Tom Cunningham aboard Peter Simple wins
28 Feb 1850
The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City Utah
28 Feb 1854
Republican Party formally organized in Ripon Wisconsin
28 Feb 1859
Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
28 Feb 1863
Confederate raider Nashville sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia
28 Feb 1864
-Mar 3rd] Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burtons Ford)
28 Feb 1870
The Bulgarian Exarchate (Orthodox Church) is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire
28 Feb 1826
M Biela an Austrian officer discovers Bielas Comet
28 Feb 1827
1st commercial railroad in US Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) chartered
28 Feb 1871
2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections in US
28 Feb 1878
US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate
28 Feb 1879
Exodus of southern blacks flee political and economic exploitation
28 Feb 1882
1st US college cooperative store opens at Harvard University
28 Feb 1883
1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston Mass)
28 Feb 1888
Vincent dIndys Wallenstein-trilogy premieres
28 Feb 1891
Oscar Grundn skates world record 500m (50.8 sec)
28 Feb 1893
Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania patents an abrasive he names carborundum
28 Feb 1896
France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
28 Feb 1900
General Bullers troops relieve Ladysmith in Natal
28 Feb 1902
Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo
28 Feb 1903
Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buy Philadelphia Phillies for 170000
28 Feb 1904
Football club Sport Lisboa (Benfica) founded in Lisbon Portugal
28 Feb 1906
Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queens U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
28 Feb 1908
Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Tehran
28 Feb 1909
1st National Womans Day is observed in the United States. Organized by the Socialist Party of America in honor of the 1908 garment workers strike in New York where women protested against working conditions.
28 Feb 1912
Victor Trumpers last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
28 Feb 1913
6.8-m 4000-kg elephant seal killed in South Georgia (South Atlantic)
28 Feb 1914
Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the San Francisco Exposition
28 Feb 1915
WWI After the French try to drive the Germans forces back into the Champagne region they gain a few hundred yards - at the cost of 50000 casualties
28 Feb 1917
AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
28 Feb 1920
Maurice Ravels Le tombeau de Couperin premieres
28 Feb 1922
KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
28 Feb 1923
Swedish King Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands
28 Feb 1925
Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
28 Feb 1929
Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
28 Feb 1931
British politician Oswald Mosley founds the New Party
28 Feb 1933
1st female in US Cabinet Frances Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
28 Feb 1933
Pacifist and anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky arrested sent to Esterwegen-Papenburg concentration camp
28 Feb 1935
Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
28 Feb 1935
Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon polymer
28 Feb 1935
Ladby Ship is discovered within a Viking grave on the island of Funen in Denmark by amateur archaeologist Poul Helweg Mikkelsen
28 Feb 1936
Karl Schfer of Austria follows up his Winter Olympics victory with his 7th consecutive mens figure skating World Championship title in Paris France
28 Feb 1936
Olympic champions Ernst Baier and Maxi Herber of Germany win their 4th consecutive pairs figure skating gold medal at the World Championships in Paris France
28 Feb 1939
The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik is published.
28 Feb 1939
The erroneous word Dord is discovered in the Websters New International Dictionary Second Edition prompting an investigation.
28 Feb 1940
1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U 50-37)
28 Feb 1940
US population at 131669275 (12865518 African American (9.8%))
28 Feb 1942
Japanese land in Java last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
28 Feb 1943
Porgy & Bess opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
28 Feb 1944
Arrests of the ten-Boom family in Nazi occupied Netherlands (Haarlem) through a Dutch collaborator on charges of hiding Jews
28 Feb 1950
Alive & Kicking closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 performances
28 Feb 1951
Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
28 Feb 1954
Patty Berg and Pete Cooper wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
28 Feb 1954
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
28 Feb 1956
13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Massachusetts
28 Feb 1956
American engineer Wright Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
28 Feb 1957
Jockey Johnny Longdens 5000th career victory
28 Feb 1958
West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328 day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
28 Feb 1959
Goldilocks closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances
28 Feb 1959
Ice Dance Championship at Colo Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of Great Britain
28 Feb 1959
Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Barbara Wagner and Robert Paul of Canada their 3rd title
28 Feb 1959
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss USA
28 Feb 1959
Mens World Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA
28 Feb 1959
NFL trade Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
28 Feb 1960
VIII Winter Olympic Games close in Squaw Valley California
28 Feb 1960
US wins 1st ever Winter Olympics gold medal in hockey by defeating Czechoslovakia
28 Feb 1960
Home team United States wins its first Olympic ice hockey gold medal at Squaw Valley clinches gold with a 9-4 win over Czechoslovakia
28 Feb 1962
WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN
28 Feb 1966
Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes
28 Feb 1966
Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers
28 Feb 1967
A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years
28 Feb 1968
Pirate Radio Hauraki on a boat floating off coast of NZ returns to the air
28 Feb 1969
Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler & Ford of Great Britain
28 Feb 1969
Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina & Ulanov of the Soviet Union
28 Feb 1969
Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert of Great Britain
28 Feb 1969
Mens Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood of USA
28 Feb 1969
Terence ONeill re-elected as leader of the Unionist Parliamentary Party and thus confirmed as Northern Ireland Prime Minister
28 Feb 1970
Georgy closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 4 performances
28 Feb 1970
Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
28 Feb 1970
Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (30253)
28 Feb 1970
KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City IA (PBS) 1st broadcast
28 Feb 1970
WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
28 Feb 1971
WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville Kentucky (IND) begins broadcasting
28 Feb 1971
A British soldier dies in Derry after his vehicle had been attacked with petrol bombs (he died as a result of inhaling chemicals from fire extinguishers that were used to put out the fire)
28 Feb 1973
Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders
28 Feb 1973
Iraq and Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC) reach an agreement on compensation for nationalization
28 Feb 1974
UK general election results in a hung parliament
28 Feb 1974
US & Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years
28 Feb 1975
EG signs accord of Lome with 46 developing countries
28 Feb 1975
A major London tube train crash at Moorgate station kills 43 people and injures a further 74.
28 Feb 1976
Spain withdraws from Western Sahara leaving Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) as the last European possessions in Africa
28 Feb 1977
1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland Los Angeles California)
28 Feb 1979
Ernest Thompsons On Golden Pond premieres in NYC
28 Feb 1980
The Well-Tuned Piano by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m)
28 Feb 1981
Calvin Murphy (Hou) sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
28 Feb 1981
Peoples Republic of China throws out the Netherlands ambassador due to Dutch sales of submarines to Taiwan
28 Feb 1982
AT&T looses a record 7 BILLION for the fiscal year ending on this day
28 Feb 1982
Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
28 Feb 1984
British satirical puppet show Spitting Image premieres on ITV
28 Feb 1986
European Economic Community signs Special Act for Europe free trade
28 Feb 1986
Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year after they admitted in Curtis Strongs trial in September they used drugs
28 Feb 1988
XV Winter Olympic Games close in Calgary Canada
28 Feb 1988
Pat Verbeek becomes 1st NJ Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game
28 Feb 1988
Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (714.13)
28 Feb 1989
Gretchen Polhemus 23 (Texas) crowned 38th Miss USA
28 Feb 1989
Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
28 Feb 1989
Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to baseballs Hall of Fame
28 Feb 1990
US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
28 Feb 1991
Gulf War ends after Iraq accepts a ceasefire following their retreat from Kuwait
28 Feb 1991
Les Miserables opens at Theatre Carre Amsterdam
28 Feb 1991
Speed of Darkness opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 36 performances
28 Feb 1991
Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m indoor (33416)
28 Feb 1993
Anna Christie closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances
28 Feb 1993
Gun battle erupts near Waco Texas at Branch Davidian compound after FBI attempts a raid
28 Feb 1993
Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m)
28 Feb 1994
Brady Law imposing a wait-period to buy a hand gun in the USA comes into effect
28 Feb 1995
The US Pentagon announces that it monitored Iranian installation of surface-to-air Hawk missiles in the Strait of Hormuz
28 Feb 1997
FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
28 Feb 1997
Purchasers of cigarettes in US must prove they are over 18
28 Feb 1998
View From the Bridge closes at Criterion Theater NYC
28 Feb 1667
English colony Suriname comes under Dutch controls
28 Feb 1704
Indians attack Deerfield Massachusetts killing 40 kidnapping 100
28 Feb 1826
Bielas Comet rediscovered by Austrian astronomer Wilhelm von Biela (originally discovered 1772)
28 Feb 1844
6th Grand National John Crickmere wins aboard 51 co-favourite Discount
28 Feb 1849
1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in San Francisco from the east coast
28 Feb 1849
11th Grand National Tom Cunningham wins aboard 201 Peter Simple 2nd consecutive year there are 3 equine fatalities during the race
28 Feb 1862
Charles Gounods opera La Reine de Saba premieres in Paris
28 Feb 1883
1st US vaudeville theater opens in Boston Massachusetts
28 Feb 1893
Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania patents an abrasive he names carborundum (Silicon carbide)
28 Feb 1906
Stanley Cup Ottawa HC beats Queens University (Kingston ON) 12-7 for a 2-0 sweep of challenge series
28 Feb 1920
Maurice Ravels orchestral suite Le tombeau de Couperin premieres in Paris
28 Feb 1943
George Gershwins Porgy & Bess opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
28 Feb 1959
Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of Great Britain
28 Feb 1959
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss USA
28 Feb 1983
Final TV episode of MASH airs (CBS) record 125 million watch in the US
28 Feb 1998
First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
28 Feb 1998
Kosovo War Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
28 Feb 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.
28 Feb 2001
Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash
28 Feb 1804
Charles Pichegru French army general and royalist who plotted to overthrow Napoleon in the Pichegru Conspiracy arrested
28 Feb 1989
10-time All Star second baseman and manager Red Schoendienst and umpire Al Barlick are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
28 Feb 1942
Race riot at Sojourner Truth Homes a housing project in Detroit Michigan
28 Feb 1730
Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna revokes the conditions and dissolves the Privy Council re-instituting autocracy
28 Feb 1896
France dismisses Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar and exiles her to the island of Runion
28 Feb 1899
Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico passes legislation founding the University of New Mexico to be established in (or near) Albuquerque
28 Feb 1912
Australian batting great Victor Trumper scores 50 in his final Test innings in 5th Test loss v England at Sydney Cricket Ground
28 Feb 1966
Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool England closes
28 Feb 1970
Carole Bayer (Sager) and George Fischoffs musical Georgy closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 4 performances
28 Feb 1972
George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
28 Feb 1988
British television programme Thats Life surprises guest Nicholas Winton with an audience full of grown-up children that he saved from German-occupied Czechoslovakia bringing them to safety in the UK
28 Feb 1989
Nevada-Semipalatinsk anti-nuclear movement founded by Olzhas Suleimenov in Kazakhstan initially aiming to close Semipalatinsk nuclear test site (closed 1991) [1]
28 Feb 1991
Steve Tesichs stage drama Speed of Darkness opens at Belasco Theater NYC runs for 36 performances
28 Feb 1993
Anna Christie closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances
28 Feb 1847
US forces numbering less than 1000 defeat a larger Mexico force in the Battle of the Sacramento River
28 Feb 1920
Austria adopts a new constitution and becomes a kingdom again
28 Feb 1940
US population at 131669275 with 12865518 African American (9.8%)
28 Feb 1942
World War II German submarine U-578 torpedoes US Navy destroyer USS Jacob Jones (DD130) off Cape May New Jersey killing all but 11 of 113 man crew
28 Feb 1973
Suriname government of Jules Sedney arrests 13 union leaders
28 Feb 1888
Vincent dIndys Wallenstein trilogy premieres
28 Feb 1922
Great Britain issues the Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence ending its protectorate over Egypt and granting the country nominal independence while reserving control of military and diplomatic matters
28 Feb 1929
NHL Chicago Black Hawks lose league record 15th straight game at home
28 Feb 1989
Memo by Bryant Gumbel criticizing his NBC Today morning news show coworkers becomes public
28 Feb 2001
The US Environmental Protection Agency announces that it intends to proceed with implementation of tighter restrictions on sulfur content in diesel fuel the rule is opposed by many in the refining industry
28 Feb 2004
Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
28 Feb 2005
A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah Iraq kills 127.
28 Feb 2005
Lebanons pro-Syrian prime minister Omar Karami resigns amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in Beirut.
28 Feb 2007
Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
28 Feb 2008
Former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is arrested on corruption charges upon returning to Thailand after months of exile.
28 Feb 2010
XXI Winter Olympic Games close in Vancouver Canada
28 Feb 2012
54th Daytona 500 Rain affected race stopped for 2 hours because of fuel on track Matt Kenseth leads for final 34 laps to win
28 Feb 2012
Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin Kairuku grebneffi at nearly 5ft tall
28 Feb 1638
Scottish Presbyterians sign the National Covenant at Greyfriars Edinburgh
28 Feb 1646
Roger Scott is tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
28 Feb 1749
1st edition of Henry Fieldings novel Tom Jones is published
28 Feb 1844
A 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes killing US Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer and other high-ranking federal officials
28 Feb 1890
First US state naval militia the Massachusetts Battalion is organized
28 Feb 1909
1st National Womans Day is observed in the United States organized by the Socialist Party of America in honor of the 1908 garment workers strike in New York where women protest against working conditions
28 Feb 1915
French forces attempt to drive the Germans back into the Champagne region during World War I gaining a few hundred yards at the cost of 50000 casualties
28 Feb 1922
Great Britain issues the Unilateral Declaration of Egyptian Independence ending its protectorate over Egypt and granting the country nominal independence while reserving control over military and diplomatic matters
28 Feb 1935
Wallace Carothers manufactures the first nylon polymer
28 Feb 1940
First televised basketball game (University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham University 50-37)
28 Feb 1942
World War II Japanese forces land in Java the last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
28 Feb 1942
World War II Operation Biting - British RAF drops 119 paratroopers near village of Bruneval France where the capture a German radar station and two technicians
28 Feb 1977
First killer whale born in captivity at Marineland Los Angeles California
28 Feb 1982
AT&T loses a record 7 billion for the fiscal year ending on this day
28 Feb 1989
10-time MLB All-Star second baseman and manager Red Schoendienst and umpire Al Barlick are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
28 Feb 1997
North Hollywood shootout takes place between two heavily armed bank robbers and police officers
28 Feb 1998
First flight of the RQ-4 Global Hawk the first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in US civilian airspace
28 Feb 1998
Serbian police begin an offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army during the Kosovo War
28 Feb 2001
Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hits Nisqually Valley and the Seattle Tacoma and Olympia areas of Washington State
28 Feb 2004
Over 1 million Taiwanese participate in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally forming a 500-kilometer (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
28 Feb 2005
A suicide bombing at a police recruiting center in Al Hillah Iraq kills 127
28 Feb 2005
Lebanons pro-Syrian Prime Minister Omar Karami resigns amid large anti-Syrian street demonstrations in Beirut
28 Feb 2007
Pluto-observing spacecraft New Horizons flies by Jupiter
28 Feb 2008
Former PM of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra is arrested on corruption charges after returning to Thailand following months of exile
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