What Day of the Week

February 28, 2018 was the 59^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 306 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 1784

  John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
• 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.
• 1897

  Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
• 1922

  The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
• 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.
• 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.

• 1261

  Margaret of Scotland, queen of Norway (d. 1283)
• 1552

  Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker (d. 1632)
• 1824

  Blondin, French tightrope walker (d. 1897)
• 1917

  Ernesto Alonso, Mexican actor, director, cinematographer, and producer (d. 2007)
• 1926

  Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet defector, daughter of Joseph Stalin
• 1939

  Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan Buddhist meditation instructor (d. 1987)
• 1978

  Mariano Zabaleta, Argentine tennis player
• 1979

  Ivo Karlović, Croatian tennis player
• 1988

  Markéta Irglová, Czech songwriter and actress
• 1989

  Jason Pierre-Paul, American football player

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