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

  • 870 –
    The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
  • 1638 –
    The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
  • 1700 –
    Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
  • 1784 –
    John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
  • 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.
  • 1883 –
    The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 1885 –
    The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
  • 1897 –
    Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
  • 1914 –
    The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
  • 1922 –
    The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
  • 1933 –
    Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
  • 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.
  • 1958 –
    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 the worst school bus accident in U.S. history.
  • 1959 –
    Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object to achieve a polar orbit, is launched.
  • 1975 –
    A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
  • 1980 –
    Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
  • 1991 –
    The first Gulf War ends.
  • 2004 –
    Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500 km long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947

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