February 28......

February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 (307 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

In a common year (non-leap year) it is the last day of February.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

EVENTS

● 364 - Valentinian I is elevated as Roman Emperor.

● 870 - The Fourth Constantinople Council closed, under Pope Adrian II in the West and Emperor Basil I in the East. The council had condemned iconoclasm, and became the last ecumenical council held in the Eastern Mediterranean area.

● 1066 - Westminster Abbey opens

● 1525 - Mexico: Cuauhtemoc is assassinated.

● 1570 - Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas

● 1574 - First New World victims of Spanish Inquisition burned at the stake.

● 1610 - Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, is appointed governor of Virginia

● 1638 - Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convenant, Greyfriars, Edinburgh

● 1646 - Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church

● 1653 - 3 Day Sea battle English beats Dutch

● 1667 - English colony Suriname in Dutch hands

● 1692 - Salem witch hunt begins

● 1700 - Today is followed by March 1 in Sweden, thus creating the Swedish calendar.

● 1704 - Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York NY

● 1704 - Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 40, kidnap 100

● 1708 - Slave revolt, Newton, Long Island NY, 11 die

● 1730 - Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy

● 1759 - Pope Clement XIII granted permission for the Bible to be translated into the languages of the Roman Catholic states.

● 1778 - Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves

● 1784 - English churchman John Wesley, 80, formally chartered the movement within Anglicanism which afterward came to be known as Wesleyan Methodism.

● 1794 - US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin

● 1810 - 1st US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia

● 1826 - M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet

● 1827 - The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is incorporated, becoming the first railroad in America offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.

● 1844 - During an official inspection tour of the U.S.S. Princeton, a 10-inch gun (the Navy's largest at the time) blew up, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas W. Kilmer, and 10 others. Pres. John Tyler, who at the time of the explosion was in a cabin below with Miss Julia Gardiner (the daughter of one of those killed) was unharmed. They subsequently married.

● 1847 - US defeats México in battle of Sacramento

● 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.

● 1850 - The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah.

● 1853 - Libenyl executed for attempted assassination of emperor of Austria.

● 1854 - The Republican Party forms in Ripon, Wisconsin, due to opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The act, which became law three months later, left the issue of slavery to the settlers of each state.

● 1859 - Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery

● 1861 - The Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples sign the Treaty of Fort Wise, agreeing to cede their land and live on a small reservation in southwest Colorado. U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Colonel A.B. Greenwood issues medals, blankets, sugar and tobacco. But only six of 44 Cheyenne chiefs sign the treaty, casting doubt on the gala affair's legality.

● 1861 - Nevada & Colorado are organized as a United States territories.

● 1863 - Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister GA

● 1864 - Raid at Kilpatrick's Richmond

● 1864 - Skirmish at Albemarle County Virginia (Burton's Ford)

● 1870 - The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz of the Ottoman Empire.

● 1871 - 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections

● 1873 - The Society of Mary, founded in 1816, was officially recognized by Pope Pius IX. This religious order seeks to combine the work of education with foreign missions.

● 1877 - Federal government seizes Black Hills from Lakota Sioux in violation of treaty.

● 1878 - US congress authorizes large-size silver certificate

● 1879 - "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation

● 1882 - 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University

● 1883 - The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston, Massachusetts.

● 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.)

● 1887 - France - The anarchist thief and member of the "Panthers of Batignolles," Clement Duval has his death sentence commuted to life by the President of the Republic. Duval, a partially disabled veteran of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, spent a year in prison for stealing from his employer in order to feed his family and buy much-needed medication. Unable to support his family upon his release, he undertook a life of crime. After burgling the mansion of a wealthy Paris socialite, he set it ablaze. Accosted by a policeman outside, he struck the officer down and fled. He was sentenced to death upon his capture, but this was commuted to life at hard labor. Duval attempted escape 20 times, and after finally succeeding, reached New York, where he lived until age 85, surrounded by Italian anarchist comrades.

● 1888 - Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes

● 1893 - Edward Acheson, Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"

● 1896 - France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar

● 1897 - Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch in Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.

● 1900 - The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.

● 1901 - Birth of Linus Pauling, Portland, Oregon. Receives two Nobel prizes -- one for physics and one for his early (1950s) anti-nuclear activism.

● 1903 - Japanese and Chicanos form labor organization against growers.

● 1908 - Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran

● 1913 - French anarchists Andre Soudy and Raymond Callemin sentenced to death for their roles in a Mar. 1912 Bonnet Gang attack in which two people were killed.

● 1917 - Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets

● 1917 - AP reports México & Japan will ally with Germany if US enters WWI

● 1919 - Gandhi launches satyagraha campaign, India.

● 1921 - Russia - Kronstadt Revolt begins, in sympathy with the resistance in Petrograd and critical of Bolshevism. Demands workers' rule.

● 1921 - Salvadoran shoemakers win strike for higher wages -- prompting a government crackdown.

● 1922 - Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain

● 1923 - Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands

● 1924 - US begins intervention in Honduras

● 1925 - Congress authorizes a special handling stamp

● 1931 - Oswald Mosley founds his New Party

● 1933 - 1st female in cabinet Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor

● 1933 - German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion

● 1933 - Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)

● 1933 - Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.

● 1935 - Nylon is discovered by Wallace Carothers.

● 1937 - One thousand rally against war, Hyde Park, London.

● 1939 - Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain

● 1939 - The first issue of Serbian weekly magazine Politikin zabavnik was published.

● 1939 - The word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.

● 1940 - Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden).

● 1940 - US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))

● 1941 - Birth of Alice Brock. Her restaurant was immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

● 1941 - 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month

● 1941 - British-Italian dogfight above Albania

● 1942 - Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies

● 1942 - Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit

● 1942 - 1st weapon drop on Netherlands

● 1942 - The heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30) is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed.

● 1943 - 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month

● 1947 - 2/28 Incident: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down at a loss of 30,000 civilian lives.

● 1947 - U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'Let not the past ever be so dear to us as to set a limit to the future. Give us the courage to change our minds when that is needed.'

● 1951 - A Senate committee headed by Estes Kefauver, D-Tenn., issued a preliminary report saying at least two major crime syndicates were operating in the United States.

● 1951 - French government of Pleven dissolves

● 1953 - Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev & Malenkov

● 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).

● 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island

● 1956 - 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA

● 1956 - Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory

● 1958 - Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament founded, London, England.

● 1959 - Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit

● 1960 - The United States defeats Czechoslovakia 9-4 in ice hockey to win the gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California.

● 1961 - JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor

● 1962 - The John Glenn for President club was formed by a group of Las Vegas republicans. {Little did the fools know he would later run as a Democrat for Senate from Ohio and win.}

● 1967 - Radical human rights activist Ramsey Clark named as U.S. Attorney General by President Johnson. {Later he would have the thankless job of being a defense attorney for Saddam Hussein during his kangaroo court trial.}

● 1970 - First British national women's liberation conference, Oxford, England.

● 1970 - Winter Festival for Peace, Madison Square Garden, New York City.

● 1972 - U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions on Rhodesia and Lebanon.

● 1972 - Angela Davis trial starts, San Jose, California.

● 1972 - President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China

● 1972 - Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.

● 1973 - Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders

● 1974 - Australia - Aborigines demonstrate for recognition of land rights.

● 1974 - Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms

● 1974 - Labour Party wins British parliamentary election

● 1974 - Taiwan police shoot into crowd

● 1974 - After seven years, the United States and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations.

● 1975 - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 112 people injured 20 people.

● 1975 - 40 killed in London Undergroud, as train speeds past final stop

● 1975 - EG signs accord of Lomé with 46 developing countries

● 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1976 - Ceuta & Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession

● 1977 - Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends

● 1979 - Mr. Ed, the talking horse from the TV show "Mr. Ed", died. His last words - "Wiil-l-l-l-l-bu-r-r-r-rr."

● 1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1981 - China PR throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan

● 1982 - AT&T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day

● 1982 - FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street

● 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).

● 1986 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.

● 1986 - European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade

● 1988 - Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed

● 1988 - Passaic County (New Jersey) judge signs the order dismissing the 1966 murder indictment of Hurricane Carter.

● 1989 - Nevada-Semipalatnisk Movement to Stop All Nuclear Testing founded in U.S.S.R.; inspired by the large Nevada Test Site anti-nuclear demonstrations and encampments outside Las Vegas in mid to late 1980s.

● 1990 - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit

● 1990 - Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine

● 1991 - US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire

● 1991 - Three soldiers seek sanctuary as objectors to Gulf War in Riverside Church, New York City.

● 1993 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff that ends in an FBI bonfire.

● 1994 - NATO made its first military strike when U.S. F-16 fighters shot down four Bosnian Serb warplanes in violation of a no-fly zone over central Bosnia.

● 1994 - Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect

● 1995 - The Denver International Airport opened after a 16-month delay.

● 1997 - The North Hollywood shootout takes place.

● 1997 - Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45

● 1997 - FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia

● 1997 - Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US

● 1998 - Even though the imminent threat of military strikes had been averted by a U.N. agreement, 5,000 rally in New York City protesting U.S. war and sanctions against Iraq. Demonstrations also held in at least 30 other cities.

● 1998 - Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the KLA in Kosovo.

● 2000 - Nuclear chief quits over safety scandal; British Nuclear Fuels confirms its chief executive, John Taylor, has resigned over a safety scandal.

● 2001 - At least 10 die in Selby rail crash; Up to 13 are killed and more than 70 injured when a high speed train is hit by a car which careered off the motorway.

● 2001 - An 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.

● 2002 - Beginning of three days of riots in Gujarat state, India, in which Hindu nationalists, often assisted by police, massacre nearly a thousand Muslims.

● 2002 - A body found outside San Diego was identified as that of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, who'd disappeared from her bedroom about a month earlier; a neighbor was later convicted of her murder and sentenced to death.

● 2002 - Sotheby's auction house announced that it had identified Peter Paul Reubens as the creator of the painting "The Massacre of the Innocents." The painting was previously thought to be by Jan van den Hoecke.

● 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 2/28 Incident in 1947

● 2005 - Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister, Omar Karami, resigned amid large anti-Syria street demonstrations in Beirut.

BIRTHS

● 1155 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (d. 1183)

● 1533 - Michel de Montaigne, French writer (d. 1592)

● 1552 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker (d. 1632)

● 1612 - John Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686)

● 1670 - Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (d. 1737)

● 1675 - Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)

● 1683 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (d. 1757)

● 1704 - Louis Godin, French astronomer (d. 1760)

● 1712 - Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander (d. 1759)

● 1724 - George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (d. 1807)

● 1783 - Gabriele Rossetti, Italian poet, revolutionary, and scholar (d. 1854)

● 1820 - John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)

● 1823 - Ernest Renan, French philosopher (d. 1892)

● 1827 - Blondin, French tightrope walker (d. 1897)

● 1833 - Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913)

● 1838 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (d. 1910)

● 1865 - Wilfred Grenfell, medical missionary (d. 1940).

● 1872 - Douglas McGarel Hogg, English lawyer and politician (d. 1950)

● 1878 - Pierre Fatou, French mathematician (d. 1929)

● 1878 - Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1952)

● 1882 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967)

● 1882 - José Vasconcelos, Mexican writer (d. 1959)

● 1894 - Ben Hecht, American playwright (d. 1964)

● 1896 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)

● 1900 - Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959)

● 1901 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)

● 1903 - Vincente Minnelli, American director (d. 1986)

● 1906 - Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)

● 1907 - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (d. 1988)

● 1908 - Billie Bird, American actress (d. 2002)

● 1909 - Sir Stephen Spender, English poet (d. 1995)

● 1911 - Denis Parsons Burkitt, English surgeon and medical researcher (d. 1993)

● 1915 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)

● 1915 - Zero Mostel, American actor (d. 1977)

● 1921 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (d. 2006)

● 1923 - Charles Durning, American actor

● 1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, Soviet defector, daughter of Joseph Stalin

● 1929 - Hayden Fry, American football coach

● 1929 - Frank Gehry, Canadian-American architect

● 1929 - John Montague, Irish poet

● 1930 - Leon Neil Cooper, American physicist, Nobel laureate

● 1930 - Gavin MacLeod, American actor

● 1931 - Gavin MacLeod, Actor (''Love Boat,'' ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'')

● 1931 - Dean Smith, American basketball coach and Hall of Fame member

● 1932 - Don Francks, Canadian actor

● 1933 - Rein Taagepera, Estonian politician

● 1939 - Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel laureate

● 1939 - Tommy Tune, American dancer

● 1940 - Mario Andretti, American race car driver

● 1940 - Joe South, American singer

● 1942 - Frank Bonner, American actor

● 1942 - Brian Jones, English musician (The Rolling Stones) (d. 1969)

● 1942 - Dino Zoff, Italian footballer

● 1944 - Win Aung, Burmese politician

● 1944 - Kelly Bishop, American actress (''Gilmore Girls'')

● 1944 - Sepp Maier, German footballer

● 1945 - Bubba Smith, American football player

● 1946 - Robin Cook, British politician (d. 2005)

● 1946 - Syreeta Wright, American singer (d. 2004)

● 1947 - Stephanie Beacham, British actress

● 1948 - Steven Chu, American physicist, Nobel laureate

● 1948 - Mike Figgis, English director

● 1948 - Bernadette Peters, American singer

● 1948 - Mercedes Ruehl, American actress

● 1952 - William Finn, American composer

● 1954 - Brian Billick, American football coach

● 1955 - Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian

● 1956 - Jimmy Nicholl, Canadian-born Northern Irish footballer

● 1956 - Mike Tenay, American wrestling commentator

● 1957 - Cindy Wilson, Rock singer (B-52s)

● 1957 - John Turturro, American actor

● 1960 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress (d. 1980)

● 1961 - Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian actress

● 1961 - Mark Latham, Australian politician

● 1963 - Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist

● 1964 - Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist

● 1967 - Colin Cooper, English footballer

● 1969 - Robert Sean Leonard, American actor ("House")

● 1969 - Patrick Monahan, American singer (Train)

● 1970 - Daniel Handler, American writer, better known as Lemony Snicket

● 1970 - Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete

● 1971 - Maxine Bahns, Actress

● 1971 - Tristan Louis, American writer

● 1972 - Rory Cochrane, American actor

● 1973 - Eric Lindros, Canadian hockey player

● 1973 - Nicolas Minassian, French racing driver

● 1974 - Lee Carsley, Irish footballer

● 1975 - Mike Rucker, American football player

● 1976 - Ali Larter, American actress

● 1977 - Jason Aldean, American Country singer

● 1978 - Benjamin Raich, Austrian Olympic skier

● 1979 - Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver

● 1979 - Primož Peterka, Slovenian ski jumper

● 1980 - Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer

● 1980 - Piotr Giza, Polish footballer

● 1982 - Natalia Vodianova, Russian supermodel

● 1984 - Karolína Kurková, Czech supermodel

● 1985 - Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer

● 1985 - Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player

● 1987 - Kerrea Gilbert, English footballer

DEATHS

● 1261 - Henry III, Duke of Brabant (b. circa 1230)

● 1326 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)

● 1453 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)

● 1485 - Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)

● 1510 - Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer

● 1525 - Cuauhtémoc, Aztec Ruler

● 1572 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)

● 1621 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)

● 1648 - King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway, (b. 1577)

● 1746 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)

● 1786 - John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)

● 1788 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)

● 1857 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)

● 1916 - Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)

● 1925 - Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1871)

● 1929 - Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (b. 1874)

● 1936 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)

● 1941 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)

● 1942 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)

● 1959 - Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and film writer (b. 1888)

● 1963 - Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)

● 1967 - Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)

● 1974 - Bobby Bloom, American singer/songwriter (b. 1946)

● 1977 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, American actor (b. 1905)

● 1978 - Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905)

● 1978 - Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)

● 1978 - Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)

● 1985 - David Byron, British singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)

● 1985 - Ray Ellington, British singer (b. 1916)

● 1986 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)

● 1991 - Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (b. 1916)

● 1993 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1910)

● 1998 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)

● 1998 - Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (b. 1930)

● 2002 - Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)

● 2002 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)

● 2003 - Chris Brasher, British athlete (b. 1928)

● 2003 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (heart attack) (b. 1917)

● 2003 - Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (b. 1935)

● 2004 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)

● 2004 - Andres Nuiamäe, first Estonian soldier to be killed in the Iraq War (b. 1982)

● 2006 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize recipient (b. 1920)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Caerealis
● St. Gabriel Possenti (leap years)
● St. Hedwig, Blessed
● St. Hilarius, Pope (461-68), calendar reformer (non-leap years)
● St. Macarius
● St. Oswald (d. 992)
● St. Romanus of Condat (d. 463)
● St. Ruellinus
● St. Rufinus
● St. Silvana
● Bl. Antonia of Florence (d. 1472)
● Bl. Villana

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for February 15 (Civil Date: February 28)
● Ap Onesimus of the Seventy.
● Synaxis of St. John the Theologian at Diaconissa.
● St. Eusebius, hermit of Syria.
● St. Paphnutius, monk, and his daughter St. Euphrosyne, nun, of Alexandria.
● Martyr Major of Gaza.
● St. Paphnutius, recluse of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Dalmatus, abbot and founder of the Dormition Monastery in Siberia.

● Christian:
● St. Romanus

● Bahá'í Faith - Day 3 of Ayyám-i-Há (Intercalary Days) - days in the Bahá'í calendar devoted to service and gift giving.

● Finland : Kalevala Day (1835)

● Luxembourg : Burgsonndeg-celebrates end of winter


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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