February 28: Day Of The Week
February 28, 2013 is the 59th day of the year 2013 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.
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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
| February | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | ||
Pisces is the zodiac 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.
February 28 Historical Events
- 1811 –Cry of Asencio, begin of the Uruguayan War of Independence
- 1827 –The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
- 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.)
- 1900 –The Second Boer War: The 118-day “Siege of Ladysmith” is lifted.
- 1947 –228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
- 1954 –The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public.
- 1993 –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.
- 1997 –The North Hollywood shootout takes place, resulting in the injury of 19 people and the deaths of both perpetrators.
- 2001 –Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
- 2005 –A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
Who were born on February 28?
- 1838 –Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
- 1882 –José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer (d. 1959)
- 1900 –Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959)
- 1916 –Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (d. 1984)
- 1916 –Svend Asmussen, Danish jazz violinist
- 1923 –Charles Durning, American actor
- 1929 –Hayden Fry, American football coach
- 1942 –Frank Bonner, American actor
- 1964 –Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist
- 1969 –Robert Sean Leonard, American actor
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