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
- 202 BC –coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty’s rule over China
- 1700 –Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
- 1838 –Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1935 –DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
- 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.
- 1953 –James D. 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1991 –The first Gulf War ends.
- 1997 –An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in Armenia and Azerbaijan kills around 1,100 people
- 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.
- 2005 –A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
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