SomeFacts | February 28

On this day - February 28

Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four ...

870 — The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.

1525 — Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on the order of conquistador ...

1638 — The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.

1835 — Elias Lönnrot signs and dates the foreword to the first ...

1844 — A gun explodes on board the steam warship USS Princeton during ...

1922 — The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a ...

1925 — The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern ...

1947 — February 28 incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down ...

1948 — The 1948 Accra riots erupt following a march by ex-servicemen ...

1958 — A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck ...

1959 — Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first ...

1966 — A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory ...

1969 — The 1969 Portugal earthquake hits Portugal, Spain and Morocco.

1973 — Aeroflot Flight X-167 crashes during takeoff from Semey ...

1974 — The British election ends in a hung parliament after the ...

1975 — In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate ...

1983 — The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 110 million ...

1985 — The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar ...

1986 — Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in ...

1990 — Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-36.

1993 — Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agents raid the ...

1997 — A Turkish military memorandum results in the collapse of the ...

1997 — An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 1,100 ...

2001 — The 2001 Nisqually earthquake, having a moment magnitude of ...

2002 — During the religious violence in Gujarat, 97 people are killed ...

2013 — Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, ...

2023 — Two trains collide south of the Vale of Tempe in Greece, ...

2024 — Prime Minister Modi of India inaugurates the 2nd Space Port of ...

2026 — The United States and Israel launch attacks across Iran, ...