The February 28th is the 59e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 306 days before the end of the year (307 so bissextile).

February 27th * February 28th * March 1st

Events

4th century

  •    380: Baptism of Théodose Ier, which banishes by an edict all the pagan worships and the doctrines of Arius. The Christianisme becomes the only official religion of the Roman Empire.

16th century

  • 1525 : Aztec Empire: Cuauhtémoc ( the eagle which falls ) is assassinated by the Spanish . It is the last emperor Aztèque.

17th century

  • 1653 : The English fleet beats the Dutchmen with broad Portland (England).

18th century

  • 1791 : Paris: After the discovery of the escape of the sisters of the king the emotion is strong. After the women, it is the turn of the workmen and craftsmen of the Faubourg Saint-Anthony to express their indignation. They attack the keep of Vincennes. During this time, four hundred noble tries to take the Tuileries. It is the plot of the “Chevaliers of the dagger”.

19th century

  • 1876 : The war carlist ends in Spain with the departure in exile of Don Carlos.

  • 1878 : the United States: The Bland Allison Act obliges the government to monthly strike silver coins for an amount of two million dollars and legal report/ratio. Justified by the obstruction caused by the greenblacks (inconvertible tickets), since the American Civil War, this law saw to clash inflationary and deflationary, “argentists” and “monometallists”.

  • 1897 : Madagascar: The government of Gallieni abolishes the royal function.

  • 1898 : A Cerf-volant reaches altitude record of 3.801 m to Milton (Massachusetts, the United States). Its pilots are Henry Helm Clayton and A.E. Sweetland .

20th century

  • 1912 : Georges Carpentier beats Sullivan and becomes champion of Europe of boxing, average weights category.

  • 1921 : The sailors of Cronstadt raise themselves against the dictatorship Bolchevik. Their revolt will be drowned in blood.

  • 1922 : Egypt: By a unilateral pact, the Britanniques proclaim the end of the Protectorat instituted in 1914 and proclaims the independent Egypt. The March 15th the sultan Fouad Ier proclaims king. However, the competition opposing Fouad to the nationalist party, the Wafd, makes it possible to the British to preserve their economic position in the country, in particular the control of the Suez Canal.

  • 1925 : A Séisme having its epicentre with the mouth of the Saguenay shakes the valley of the the St. Lawrence: three people perish.

  • 1935 : The chemist Wallace Carothers, employed at Dupont de Nemours, a company of chemistry located at Wilmington (Delaware), invents a plastic used as textile fiber. The discovery of fiber, baptized “Nylon”, and its marketing, are announced the October 27th 1938.

  • 1942 : The Japanese troops unload with Java.

  • 1946 : First publication of the newspaper “the Team”, which succeeds “the Car-Bicycle”.

  • 1947 : “Incidental of February 28th” with Taiwan, the popular demonstrations end in the arrest and the massive execution of Taiwanese intellectuals, resulting in a persistent tension between Chinese from the continent and Taiwanese.

  • 1956 : On proposal of the Minister of the social affairs, Albert Gazier, the National Assembly adopts, unanimously the 499 voters, the three weeks of Paid vacations, that is to say 18 business days.

  • 1957 : Gaston Lagaffe makes his entry. One sees it for the first time in the newspaper of Spirou, first Anti-héros of the Cartoon by Franquin.

  • 1960 : End of the 8ème Winter Olympics to Squaw Valley (the United States). 30 nations took part gathering 665 athletes in 9 disciplines.

  • 1962 : Washington announces that new nuclear tests in the atmosphere will take place in the Pacifique.

  • 1970 : In Chicago, President Georges POMPIDOU states in Chicago: “The influence of the man on nature became such as it involves a risk of destruction of nature itself. It is striking to note that at the moment when accumulate and diffuse more and more goods known as of consumption, they are the elementary goods most necessary to the life, like the air and the water, which start to be lacking. ”

Led Zeppelin occurs in spectacle with Copenhagen under the pseudonym of Nobs ; the count Evan von Zeppelin , a descendant of the aeronautical manufacturer Ferdinand von Zeppelin, threatened the group of a lawsuit if it goes up on scene to the Denmark while using celebrates it name.

  • 1972 : The French police force discovers 425 kg of pure Héroïne estimated at 489,6 franc million.

  • 1974 : Inauguration of the Palate of the Congresses in Paris.

  • 1975 :

    • an oar of the subway of London strikes the bottom of a tunnel, killing 37 people.
    • Agreements of Lome guaranteeing to forty six countries Africa, the Caribbean and Peaceful the stability of the receipts coming from their exports.

  • 1977 : Via Rail, company of State distinct from the Canadian National, is created to ensure the service the passengers.

  • 1984 : The former Cameronian president Ahmadou Ahidjo is condemned to died by Contumace for plot against the mode of his successor, Paul Biya.

  • 1986 :

    • the Prime Minister Swedish Olof Palme is assassinated with Stockholm.
    • a snowstorm causes the death of nine people and deprives 110.000 hearths of electricity in the south-west of the France.

  • 1996 :

    • the Russia becomes the 39ème Member State of the the Council of Europe.
    • At the request of her husband and on the pressing councils of the queen Elisabeth, the princess Diana announces that it accepts finally the divorce, after 14 years of marriage with the prince Charles, including 2 years of separation.

  • 1997 :

    • Closing of Renault Vilvorde, 3100 Belgian lose their employment there. This Belgian factory was the first factory construction of Renault abroad.
    • the “18 recommendations” put forth by the Turkish Safety advice main road launch the “process of February 28th” which aims at repressing the development of Islamism in Turkey and leads in June to the resignation of the 1st minister Necmettin Erbakan; this process was qualified of “post-modern coup d'etat” by the general Özkasnak, former general secretary of the Staff.
    • a Earthquake shakes the North-West of the Iran making thousand dead.
    • a Séisme of 6,1 on the open scales of Richter kills 1.000 people in Argentine.
    • Business Elf: André Guelfi is put in examination and imprisoned.

  • 1998 :

    • the film One knows the song of the realizer Alain Resnais receives 7 prices at the time of the evening of Césars held with the Théâtre of the Fields-Élysées to Paris.
    • Ashia Hansen increases the female world records indoor of triple jump to 15 m 16.

  • 1999 : Israel lance a military immense operation of reprisals against islamist positions with the Southern Lebanon, after the death of one of its generals in an attack of the Hezbollah.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • a railway collision enters an express train and a goods train in the north of the England makes 10 dead and more than 70 others wounded.
    • the Minister for Agriculture Jean Glavany announces a plan of assistance for the bovine stockbreeders touched by the crisis of the mad cow.
    • the American city of Seattle (north-western of the the United States) has undergone the most powerful Séisme for one half-century in the area (magnitude of 6,8 on the open scales of Richter) but deplores only 250 wounded.
    • a Séisme of 6,8 with the open scales of Richter shakes the State of Washington, the Oregon like Vancouver and Victoria, making a death and extensive damage.
    • Belgrade, the office of the prosecutor launches an investigation into the former dictator Slobodan Milosevic.
    • WorldCom lays off 6.000 employees with the the United States, the bankruptcy is not more very far.

  • 2002 :
    • Madagascar: The former president Didier Ratsiraka issues the martial law.
    • Europe: End of the legal tender of all the old currencies of the Euro area.
    • a Earthquake shakes the North-West of the Iran making 1.000 dead.
    • celebrates It examining magistrate Eva Joly announces her nearest return in its native land, the Norway, to become special adviser of the government as regards fight anti-corruption.
    • Superb seizure of 350 kg Cocaine carried out on a beach of the Vendée by the gendarmerie of the Sand-with Olonne, France.
    • Stupor: the High commissioner with the Refugees of UNO announces that HCR will not extend the investigation into the cases of sexual abuses on children practiced to the chain by its own members. Food and care thus, for a long time, were exchanged against sexual favors on the children of people come to find assistance near HCR in Africa.
    • 2 New Yorkean cops in clink, two others in freedom. Shown to have sodomized an immigrant in a police station in August 1997, using a handle with broken brush, Justin Volpe takes some for thirty years. Charles Schwarz takes some for 15 years to have held the Haitian during the act of torture. The course gives up the load of " violation of the civic rights " for the latter (it course estimates that they are not its rights but its C… which was violated!). Thomas the Wiese and Thomas Bruder , cops also are slackenings for lack of reasonable evidence to prove that they covered their two colleagues.
    • In margin of the International fair of the fur and the mode ( International Fur & Fashion Fair ), LISA Franzetta and Kristie Phelds , members of the organization PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment off Animals, for an ethical treatment of the animals) express in the district of businesses of Hong-Kong, vêtues of simple breeches, the body constellated with spots of leopard and carrying at the level of the centres a sign indicating that " Seuls the animals should carry fur ".

  • 2003 :

    • the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin presents, with Rouen, the transfers of competence and the experiments agreed by the State with the local government agencies, within the framework of “act II of decentralization”.
    • Thanks to its victory in Scandinavian compound sprint, John Spillane becomes the first American to take down a gold medal with the championships of the world of Cross-country skiing.
    • Václav Klaus is elected president of the Czech Republic; he succeeds this station with Václav Havel.

  • 2004 : With the 19ème Victoire of the music, the groups Kyo and Mickey 3D obtain three rewards, Carla Bruni and Calogero is elected " artists of the année".

  • 2005 :

    • has Milford, Great Britain, Michael Johnstone , hypnotist is condemned for sexual assaults on patients and to have recorded his misdeeds. Thanks to a superb chicanery, it only takes 3 years but makes only 90 days. Icing on the cake, it will not be recorded like sexual delinquent and will not have to follow specific therapy.
    • Three members of the defense organization of the rights of the fathers " Fathers 4 Justice " , disguised in Batman, Robin and Captain America climb on an edge of the building of the Foreign Office and 10 Downing Street and remain a few hours there. The organization defends the right of the fathers to return visit to their children after a divorce. One of the three man (the Batman of the day), Jason Hatch, already ridiculed the safety of the palate of Buckingham, residence of the Queen of England, by climbing a balcony in September 2004.
    • Steve Fossett takes off of Salina for a round the world tour as a recluse and without supply. He hopes to buckle to it tower of planet, 42,450 kilometers, in less than 80 H thanks to his light ultra apparatus, the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer . He lands the March 3rd after sixty-seven hours and a minute of vol.

  • 2006 :

    • Opening to Yamoussoukro, the official capital of the country, an extraordinary summit bringing together all the protagonists of the crisis of the Ivory Coast - it is about the first ground meeting of the Ivory Coast of the main leaders since the beginning of the civil war, in September 2002 -, in the presence of the President of the Republic, Laurent Gbagbo, of the Prime Minister, Charles Konan Banny, of the chief of the rebels, Guillaume Soro, and of the leaders of the two principal parties of opposition, the ex-First minister Alassane Ouattara and the former Head of the State Henri Konan Bédié.
    • the Office of State of statistics (BES) Chinese announces that the Chinese population increased by 7,68 million people in 2005, that is to say a natural growth of 5,89 per thousand, against 5,87 per thousand in 2004. With the December 31st 2005, the Chinese population reached 1.307.560 000 people, including 562 million people living downtown and 745 million people in the rural regions. On this total figure, one counts 674 million men (either 51,5%) and 634 million women (or 48,5%). In 2005, China recorded more than 16 million births and approximately 8,49 million death.
    • the Chinese Parliament, at the time of the 20th session of the Standing Committee of the National People's Assembly of China, joined together with Beijing, ratifies International convention against the financing of the Terrorisme.

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Births

Death

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Basile the Confessor († medium of 8th S.) companion of saint Procope Décapolite, defender of the holy images.
  • Lupicin de Lauconne (5th S.)
  • Romain de Condat (5th S.)
  • Radegonde of Poitiers (+ 587), Invention of relics.

Catholic saints of the day

  • Antoinette

Orthodoxe saints of the day

See too

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