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28 February, 2007
Jupiter flyby of the New Horizons Pluto-observer spacecraft.
28 February, 2005
Lebanons pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, resigns amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in Beirut.
28 February, 2005
A suicide bombing at a police recruiting centre in Al Hillah, Iraq kills 127.
28 February, 2004
Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (300-mile) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
28 February, 2002
At least 55 are killed in Ahmadabad, India when Hindus burn Muslim homes.
28 February, 2001
The Nisqually Earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
28 February, 2001
Six passengers and four railway staff are killed and a further 82 people suffer serious injuries in the Selby rail crash.
28 February, 1998
First flight of RQ-4 Global Hawk, first unmanned aerial vehicle certified to file its own flight plans and fly regularly in U.S. civilian airspace.
28 February, 1998
Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
28 February, 1997
The North Hollywood shootout takes place.
28 February, 1993
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the groups leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
28 February, 1991
First Gulf War ends.
28 February, 1986
Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
28 February, 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.
28 February, 1983
The final episode of M*A*S*H is broadcast in the USA, becoming the most watched television episode in history, with 106–125 million viewers in the U.S. (estimate varies by source).
28 February, 1975
A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
28 February, 1974
After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.
28 February, 1972
Sino-American relations: The United States and Peoples Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
28 February, 1960
The United States defeats Czechoslovakia 9-4 in ice hockey to win the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California.
28 February, 1953
James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; formal announcement April 25 following publication in April Nature (pub. April 2).
28 February, 1947
228 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down at a loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
28 February, 1942
The heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed.
28 February, 1940
Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).
28 February, 1939
The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik was published.
28 February, 1939
The word "Dord" is discovered in the Websters New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
28 February, 1935
Nylon is discovered by Wallace Carothers.
28 February, 1933
Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
28 February, 1922
The United Kingdom accepts the independence of Egypt.
28 February, 1900
The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
28 February, 1897
Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch in Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.
28 February, 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.)
28 February, 1883
The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
28 February, 1870
The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.
28 February, 1861
Colorado is organized as a United States territory.
28 February, 1854
The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
28 February, 1850
The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah.
28 February, 1849
Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 21 days after leaving New York Harbor.
28 February, 1844
A gun on USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United States Cabinet members and several others.
28 February, 1838
Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaim the independence of Lower Canada (today Québec)
28 February, 1827
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.
28 February, 1787
Charter granted establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh.
28 February, 1784
John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
28 February, 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.
28 February, 1700
Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.
28 February, 870
The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
28 February, 364
Valentinian I is elevated as Roman Emperor.

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