Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 28

This is a list of selected February 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Liu Bang
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  Robert Nelson
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  John Wesley
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  USS Indiana (BB-1)
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  Olof Palme
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  Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar
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  C. V. Raman

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Mardi Gras (2017)	refimprove
Teachers' Day in the Arab world;	refimprove
Peace Memorial Day in Taiwan (1947)	refimprove section
870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople, the eighth Catholic Ecumenical Council, ended.	refimprove
1784 – John Wesley, a minister of the Church of England, chartered the first Methodist Church.	fact not in article
1838 – Lower Canada Rebellion: Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaimed the independence of Lower Canada.	short, needs more footnotes
1897 – Ranavalona III, the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.	unreferenced section
1900 – Second Boer War: The 118-day Siege of Ladysmith in South Africa was lifted after British forces finally broke through the Boer positions.	refimprove
1928 – Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his colleagues discovered what is now called the Raman effect, for which he later became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.	refimprove
1935 – Working with polyamides to developing a new viable fiber for the chemical company DuPont, American chemist Wallace Carothers invented nylon.	Carothers: unreferenced section; Nylon: refimprove
1939 – The erroneous word "dord", one of the most famous errors in lexicography, was discovered in Webster's New International Dictionary by a Merriam-Webster editor, in which the term was defined as "density".	stubby
1947 – Civil disorder in Taiwan was brutally suppressed by the Chinese Nationalist military in the 228 Incident.	refimprove section
1952 – Vincent Massey was sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.	refimprove section
1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China concluded with the two countries issuing the Shanghai Communiqué, pledging to work toward the full normalization of diplomatic relations.	refimprove
1983 – The final episode of the television series M*A*S*H was broadcast in the United States, and became the most-watched television program in history.	plot summary too long
1997 – In what has been has viewed as a "postmodern coup", the Turkish Military leadership issued a memorandum that eventually precipitated the retirement of Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan.	unreferenced section

Eligible

• 1844 – A gun on USS Princeton exploded while the warship was on a Potomac River cruise, killing six people and injuring twenty others.
• 1874 – In one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court, the defendant was convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
• 1914 – In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, Greeks living in southern Albania proclaimed the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.
• 1972 – Japanese police stormed a mountain lodge near Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, to end a ten-day siege by members of the paramilitary group United Red Army.
• 1985 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launched a mortar attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary station in Corry Square, Newry, Northern Ireland, killing nine.
• 1986 – Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated by a lone gunman in Stockholm while walking home from a movie theatre with his wife Lisbet Palme.
• 1997 – GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, struck the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
• 2001 – A high-speed train accident occurred at Great Heck near Selby, North Yorkshire, England, killing ten passengers and injuring 82 others.
• 2002 – During the 2002 Gujarat violence in India, mobs of Hindus attacked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and Chamanpura, resulting in 166 deaths.
• Born/died this day: Michel de Montaigne (b. 1533) · Koesbini (d. 1991)

Notes

• 2002 Gujarat violence/Godhra train burning appear on February 27, so Naroda Patiya massacre/Gulbarg Society massacre should not appear in the same year
• Abaoji (Emperor Taizu of Liao) appears on February 27 also, so Qin dynasty should not appear in the same year either

February 28: Fast of Esther (Judaism, 2018); Kalevala Day in Finland

Pope Benedict XVI

• 202 BC – Rebel leader Liu Bang was enthroned as Emperor Gaozu of Han after overthrowing the Qin dynasty, the first imperial dynasty of China.
• 1893 – USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, was launched.
• 1975 – A train at Moorgate station failed to stop at an underground terminal platform, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people.
• 1997 – Two heavily armed bank robbers exchanged gunfire with officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, in one of the longest and bloodiest shootouts in American police history.
• 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI (pictured) became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.

Guillaume Delisle (b. 1675) · Hortense Allart (d. 1879) · Henry James (d. 1916)

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