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28 Feb 0202
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coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han dynasty's rule over China. |
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28 Feb 0628
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Khosrau II is executed by Mihr Hormozd under the orders of Kavadh II. |
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28 Feb 0870
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The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. |
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28 Feb 0870
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8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople
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28 Feb 1066
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Westminster Abbey opens
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28 Feb 1246
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The Siege of Jaén ends in the context of the Spanish Reconquista resulting in the Castilian takeover of the city from the Taifa of Jaen. |
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28 Feb 1525
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The Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed by Hernán Cortés's forces. |
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28 Feb 1570
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Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas
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28 Feb 1610
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Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, is appointed governor of Virginia
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28 Feb 1638
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The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh. |
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28 Feb 1638
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Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
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28 Feb 1646
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Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church
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28 Feb 1653
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3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch
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28 Feb 1667
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English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
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28 Feb 1692
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Salem witch hunt begins
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28 Feb 1700
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Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar. |
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28 Feb 1704
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Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 40, kidnap 100
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28 Feb 1704
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Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York NY
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28 Feb 1708
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Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die
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28 Feb 1710
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In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil. |
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28 Feb 1728
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28 Feb 1730
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Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy
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28 Feb 1749
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1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published
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28 Feb 1759
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Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages
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28 Feb 1778
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Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves
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28 Feb 1784
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John Wesley charters the Methodist Church. |
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28 Feb 1794
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US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin
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28 Feb 1810
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1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia
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28 Feb 1811
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Cry of Asencio, beginning of the Uruguayan War of Independence |
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28 Feb 1819
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1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Sch
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28 Feb 1826
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M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet
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28 Feb 1827
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1st commercial railroad in US, Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) chartered
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28 Feb 1827
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The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight. |
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28 Feb 1828
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Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener" premieres in Vienna
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28 Feb 1835
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Dr Elias L
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28 Feb 1838
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Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec) |
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28 Feb 1844
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A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight people, including two United States Cabinet members. |
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28 Feb 1844
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12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes
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28 Feb 1847
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The Battle of the Sacramento River during the Mexican–American War is a decisive victory for the United States leading to the capture of Chihuahua. |
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28 Feb 1847
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US defeats M
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28 Feb 1849
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1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in SF from east coast
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28 Feb 1849
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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, four months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor. |
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28 Feb 1854
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Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisc
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28 Feb 1859
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Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
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28 Feb 1861
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Territories of Nevada & Colorado created
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28 Feb 1862
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Opera "La Reine de Saba, " premieres in Paris
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28 Feb 1862
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The opera "La Reine de Saba" premieres (Paris)
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28 Feb 1863
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Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister, Georgia
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28 Feb 1864
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Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond
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28 Feb 1864
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Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)
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28 Feb 1867
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Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984. |
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28 Feb 1870
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The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire. |
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28 Feb 1871
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2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections
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28 Feb 1874
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One of the longest cases ever heard in an English court ends when the defendant is convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy. |
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28 Feb 1878
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US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate
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28 Feb 1879
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"Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political / economic exploitation
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28 Feb 1882
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1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University
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28 Feb 1883
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The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston |
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28 Feb 1883
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1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
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28 Feb 1885
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The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.) |
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28 Feb 1888
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Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
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28 Feb 1888
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Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres
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28 Feb 1891
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Oscar Grund
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28 Feb 1893
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Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
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28 Feb 1893
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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. |
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28 Feb 1893
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Edward Acheson, Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
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28 Feb 1896
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France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
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28 Feb 1897
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Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force. |
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28 Feb 1900
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The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted. |
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28 Feb 1900
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General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal
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28 Feb 1902
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Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo
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28 Feb 1903
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Barney Dreyfuss & James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000
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28 Feb 1904
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Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
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28 Feb 1906
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Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queens University (Kingston Ontario) in 2 games
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28 Feb 1908
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Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
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28 Feb 1912
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Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
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28 Feb 1913
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6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (South Atlantic)
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28 Feb 1914
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The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania. |
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28 Feb 1914
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Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (San Francisco)
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28 Feb 1917
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Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
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28 Feb 1917
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AP reports M
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28 Feb 1920
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Maurice Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin" premieres
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28 Feb 1922
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The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. |
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28 Feb 1922
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Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
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28 Feb 1922
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KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
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28 Feb 1922
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English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles
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28 Feb 1923
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Swedish King Gustaaf V begins state visit to the Netherlands
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28 Feb 1924
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US begins intervention in Honduras
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28 Feb 1925
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"Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1
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28 Feb 1925
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The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. |
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28 Feb 1925
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Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
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28 Feb 1925
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Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games)
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28 Feb 1925
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"Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1
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28 Feb 1925
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Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms
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28 Feb 1928
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C. V. Raman discovers Raman scattering. |
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28 Feb 1929
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Chicago Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
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28 Feb 1931
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Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass
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28 Feb 1931
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Oswald Mosley founds his New Party
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28 Feb 1933
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Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire. |
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28 Feb 1933
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1st female in cabinet Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
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28 Feb 1933
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German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion
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28 Feb 1933
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Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
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28 Feb 1935
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DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon. |
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28 Feb 1935
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Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit
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28 Feb 1935
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Nylon discovered by Dr Wallace H Carothers
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28 Feb 1939
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The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation. |
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28 Feb 1939
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Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
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28 Feb 1940
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1st televised basketball game (University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham University, 50-37)
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28 Feb 1940
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Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden). |
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28 Feb 1940
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1st televised basketball game (college game at NYC's Madison Square Garden-University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham U, 50-37)
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28 Feb 1940
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Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
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28 Feb 1940
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US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))
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28 Feb 1941
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British-Italian dogfight above Albania
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28 Feb 1942
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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. |
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28 Feb 1942
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Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
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28 Feb 1942
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Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit
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28 Feb 1942
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1st weapon drop on Netherlands
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28 Feb 1943
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"Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan
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28 Feb 1943
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"Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan
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28 Feb 1943
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63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month
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28 Feb 1947
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228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians. |
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28 Feb 1947
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Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan
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28 Feb 1948
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Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots in Accra. |
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28 Feb 1950
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"Alive & Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 performances
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28 Feb 1951
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Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
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28 Feb 1951
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French government of Pleven dissolves
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28 Feb 1953
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James 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). |
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28 Feb 1953
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Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov
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28 Feb 1954
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Patty Berg / Pete Cooper wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
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28 Feb 1954
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The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public. |
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28 Feb 1954
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US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
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28 Feb 1956
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13 die in a train crash in Swampscott, Massachusetts
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28 Feb 1956
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Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
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28 Feb 1957
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Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory
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28 Feb 1958
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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 one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. |
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28 Feb 1958
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West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket
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28 Feb 1959
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"Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances
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28 Feb 1959
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Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. It failed to achieve orbit. |
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28 Feb 1959
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Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit
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28 Feb 1959
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NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players
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28 Feb 1959
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Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of Great Britain
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28 Feb 1959
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Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of CAN
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28 Feb 1959
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Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA
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28 Feb 1960
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8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Colorado
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28 Feb 1960
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US wins Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4
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28 Feb 1960
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8th Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley CA close
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28 Feb 1960
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Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
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28 Feb 1961
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JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
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28 Feb 1962
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WMGM-AM in New York City NY changes call letters to WHN
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28 Feb 1966
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Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes
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28 Feb 1966
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Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers
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28 Feb 1967
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Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
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28 Feb 1968
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Pirate Radio Hauraki, off New Zealand, returns to the air
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28 Feb 1969
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Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina & Ulanov of USSR
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28 Feb 1969
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Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR
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28 Feb 1970
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WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
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28 Feb 1970
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Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
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28 Feb 1970
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Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)
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28 Feb 1970
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KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City IA (PBS) 1st broadcast
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28 Feb 1971
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53rd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National. Jack Nicklaus wins his 2nd golf grand slam.
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28 Feb 1971
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WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville KY (IND) begins broadcasting
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28 Feb 1972
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Last broadcast of "M*A*S*H" on NBC-TV
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28 Feb 1972
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Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué. |
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28 Feb 1972
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George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
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28 Feb 1972
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President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China
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28 Feb 1973
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Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders
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28 Feb 1974
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US and Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years
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28 Feb 1974
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US & Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after 7 years
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28 Feb 1974
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Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
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28 Feb 1974
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Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
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28 Feb 1974
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Taiwan police shoot into crowd
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28 Feb 1975
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In London an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people. |
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28 Feb 1975
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40 killed in London Undergroud, as train speeds past final stop
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28 Feb 1975
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EG signs accord of Lom
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28 Feb 1976
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Spain withdraws from Western Sahara
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28 Feb 1976
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Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession
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28 Feb 1976
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18th Grammy Awards Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole win
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28 Feb 1977
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1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles, California)
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28 Feb 1977
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Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends
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28 Feb 1979
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Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond" premieres in New York NY
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28 Feb 1980
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"The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m)
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28 Feb 1980
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Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum. |
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28 Feb 1980
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"The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 hours 12 minutes)
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28 Feb 1980
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US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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28 Feb 1981
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Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
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28 Feb 1981
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China PR throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan
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28 Feb 1982
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AT&T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day
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28 Feb 1982
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Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
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28 Feb 1982
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FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street
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28 Feb 1983
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Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch
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28 Feb 1983
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The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 106 million viewers. It still holds the record for the highest viewership of a season finale. |
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28 Feb 1984
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26th Grammy Awards Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8
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28 Feb 1985
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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. |
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28 Feb 1986
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European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade
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28 Feb 1986
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Olof Palme, prime minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm. |
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28 Feb 1986
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Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs
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28 Feb 1988
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Pat Verbeek becomes 1st New Jersey Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game
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28 Feb 1988
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15th Winter Olympics games close at Calgary, Canada
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28 Feb 1988
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Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed
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28 Feb 1988
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Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13)
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28 Feb 1989
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Memo by Bryant Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
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28 Feb 1989
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Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA
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28 Feb 1989
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Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to Hall of Fame
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28 Feb 1990
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US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
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28 Feb 1990
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Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine
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28 Feb 1991
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"Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam
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28 Feb 1991
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"Speed of Darkness" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 36 performances
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28 Feb 1991
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The first Gulf War ends. |
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28 Feb 1991
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Don Mattingly named 10th New York Yankee Captain
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28 Feb 1991
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US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire
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28 Feb 1991
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Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500 meter indoor (3:34:16)
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28 Feb 1993
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"Anna Christie" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 54 performances
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28 Feb 1993
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Gun battle erupts at Waco Texas between FBI and Branch Davidians
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28 Feb 1993
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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. |
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28 Feb 1993
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7th American Comedy Award Seinfeld wins
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28 Feb 1993
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Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46 meters)
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28 Feb 1993
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Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife
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28 Feb 1994
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100 agents raid Branch Davidian compound at Waco, Texas
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28 Feb 1994
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Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
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28 Feb 1995
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Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the Australian federal election, 1993. |
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28 Feb 1995
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Denver International Airport opens
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28 Feb 1996
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38th Grammy Awards Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morisette wins
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28 Feb 1997
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Military coup in Turkey |
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28 Feb 1997
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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. |
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28 Feb 1997
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The North Hollywood shootout takes place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators. |
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28 Feb 1997
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An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths. |
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28 Feb 1997
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Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45
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28 Feb 1997
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FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
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28 Feb 1997
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Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US
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28 Feb 1998
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"View From the Bridge, " closes at Criterion Theater, New York City
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28 Feb 1998
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Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo. |
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28 Feb 1998
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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. |
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28 Feb 1998
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"View From the Bridge" closes at Criterion Theater NYC
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28 Feb 1998
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Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points
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28 Feb 2001
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Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash. |
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28 Feb 2001
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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. |
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28 Feb 2002
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During the religious violence in Gujarat, the 97 people killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in Gulbarg Society massacre. |
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28 Feb 2004
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Over one million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947 |
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28 Feb 2005
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A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127. |
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28 Feb 2013
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Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415. |
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