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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  Robert Nelson
• The 228 Monument in Taipei
  The 228 Monument in Taipei
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  John Wesley
• U.S. President Nixon meets with China's Communist Party Leader Mao Zedong
  U.S. President Nixon meets with China's Communist Party Leader Mao Zedong
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  Olof Palme
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  USS Indiana (BB-1)

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Peace Memorial Day in the Republic of China (Taiwan) (1947)	refimprove
202 BC – The coronation of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han took place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule in China.	more footnotes
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.	Need to verify date
1838 – Lower Canada Rebellion: Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaimed the independence of Lower Canada.	short, needs more footnotes
1844 – A gun on USS Princeton exploded while the U.S. warship was on a Potomac River cruise, killing eight United States Cabinet members and several others.	no footnotes
1900 – Second Boer War: The 118-day Siege of Ladysmith in South Africa was lifted after British forces finally broke through the Boer positions.	ref improve
1947 – Civil disorder in the Republic of China (Taiwan) was brutally suppressed by the Chinese Nationalist military in the 228 Incident.	tagged 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
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.	tagged for cleanup
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.	refimprove

Eligible

• 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, was launched.

• 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.

• 1997 – Two heavily armed bank robbers exchanged gunfire with officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, California, the longest and bloodiest shootout in American police history.

• 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.

February 28: Kalevala Day in Finland; Teachers' Day in the Arab world

• 1897 – Ranavalona III (pictured), the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.

• 1935 – Working with polyamides to developing a new viable fiber for the chemical company DuPont, American chemist Wallace Carothers invented nylon.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

More anniversaries:

• February 27
• February 28
• February 29