About February 28

February 28, 2025 is the 59th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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

What Happened On February 28

  • 870 –
    The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 1854 –
    The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
  • 1870 –
    The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
  • 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.
  • 1897 –
    Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
  • 1900 –
    The Second Boer War: The 118-day “Siege of Ladysmith” is lifted.
  • 1928 –
    C.V. Raman discovers Raman effect.
  • 1939 –
    The erroneous word “dord” is discovered in the Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
  • 1947 –
    228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
  • 1972 –
    Sino-American relations: The United States and People’s Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
  • 1975 –
    A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
  • 1980 –
    Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2001 –
    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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