What are the important events that happened on February 28? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

February 28: Facts & Myths About This Day

February 28 is the 59^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 15, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,740,700,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘pentacontaenneagon’ day.

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.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 354 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,452 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

February 28 Historical Events

• 202 BC –
  coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty’s rule over China
• 870 –
  The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
• 1893 –
  The USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
• 1914 –
  The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania.
• 1928 –
  C.V. Raman discovers Raman effect.
• 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.
• 1975 –
  A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
• 1980 –
  Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum.
• 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

Who were born on February 28?

• 1833 –
  Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913)
• 1882 –
  Pádraic Ó Conaire, Irish writer (d. 1928)
• 1900 –
  Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959)
• 1908 –
  Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)
• 1938 –
  Foge Fazio, American college football coach (d. 2009)
• 1957 –
  Ainsley Harriott, British celebrity chef
• 1961 –
  Eric Bachelart, Belgian racing driver
• 1971 –
  Junya Nakano, Japanese composer
• 1987 –
  Antonio Candreva, Italian footballer
• 2007 –
  Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco

Who died on February 28?

• 1453 –
  Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
• 1572 –
  Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
• 1746 –
  Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
• 1869 –
  Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer and poet (b. 1790)
• 1941 –
  King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
• 1959 –
  Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and film writer (b. 1888)
• 1985 –
  David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)
• 1991 –
  Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)
• 2002 –
  Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2003 –
  Rudolf Kingslake, English optical engineer (b. 1903)