What Day of the Week

February 28, 2020 was the 59^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 307 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

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

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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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• 1638

  The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
• 1700

  Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
• 1710

  In the Battle of Helsingborg, 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock.
• 1922

  The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
• 1935

  DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
• 1947

  228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
• 1980

  Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
• 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.
• 2001

  Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
• 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

• 1838

  Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)
• 1851

  Samuel W. McCall, 47th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1923)
• 1865

  Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary (d. 1940)
• 1895

  Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and film director (d. 1974)
• 1932

  Don Francks, Canadian actor
• 1978

  Jamaal Tinsley, American basketball player
• 1980

  Christian Poulsen, Danish footballer
• 1980

  Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
• 1988

  Aroldis Chapman, Cuban baseball player
• 1989

  Charles Jenkins, American basketball player

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