28 February
Notable Births
Vitor Roque
b. 2005
Brazilian footballer (born 2005)
Moise Kean
b. 2000
Italian footballer (born 2000)
Josip Šutalo
b. 2000
Association footballer (born 2000)
Luka Dončić
b. 1999
Slovenian basketball player (born 1999)
Teun Koopmeiners
b. 1998
Dutch footballer (born 1998)
Chris Lindstrom
b. 1997
American football player (born 1997)
Jakub Vrána
b. 1996
Czech ice hockey player (born 1996)
Axel Werner
b. 1996
Argentine footballer (born 1996)
Randy Arozarena
b. 1995
Cuban-Mexican baseball player (born 1995)
Alex Caruso
b. 1994
American basketball player (born 1994)
Arkadiusz Milik
b. 1994
Polish footballer (born 1994)
Marquis Teague
b. 1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Éder Álvarez Balanta
b. 1993
Colombian footballer (born 1993)
Ronalds Ķēniņš
b. 1991
Latvian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Takayasu Akira
b. 1990
Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1990)
Ryan Allen (American football)
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Sebastian Rudy
b. 1990
German footballer (born 1990)
Carlos Dunlap
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Charles Jenkins (basketball)
b. 1989
American basketball player
Aroldis Chapman
b. 1988
Cuban-American baseball player (born 1988)
Notable Deaths
Ali Khamenei
d. 2026
Supreme Leader of Iran from 1989 to 2026
Aziz Nasirzadeh
d. 2026
Iranian general (1964–2026)
Mohammad Pakpour
d. 2026
Iranian military officer and commander of the IRGC (1961–2026)
David Johansen
d. 2025
American singer (1950–2025)
Miguel Piñera
d. 2025
Chilean nightclub owner (1954–2025)
Joseph Wambaugh
d. 2025
American writer and policeman (1937–2025)
Héctor Ortiz (baseball)
d. 2024
Puerto Rican baseball player and coach (1969–2024)
Cat Janice
d. 2024
American musician (1993–2024)
Joe Coulombe
d. 2020
American businessman (1930–2020)
Freeman Dyson
d. 2020
British theoretical physicist and mathematician (1923–2020)
Lenox Hewitt
d. 2020
Australian public servant (1917–2020)
André Previn
d. 2019
American musician (1929–2019)
George Kennedy
d. 2016
American actor (1925–2016)
Yaşar Kemal
d. 2015
Turkish writer and human rights activist (1923–2015)
Hugo Brandt Corstius
d. 2014
Dutch computer scientist
Donald Glaser
d. 2013
American physicist and biologist (1926–2013)
Annie Girardot
d. 2011
French actress (1931–2011)
Paul Harvey
d. 2009
American radio broadcaster (1918–2009)
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
d. 2007
American intellectual (1917–2007)
Owen Chamberlain
d. 2006
American physicist (1920–2006)
On This Day in History
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2026
The United States and Israel launch attacks across Iran, assassinating Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Retaliatory strikes are launched by Iran against US military bases in the Gulf, with explosions reported in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE.
United States
2024
Prime Minister Modi of India inaugurates the 2nd Space Port of India - Kulasekarapattinam Spaceport.
Prime minister
2023
Two trains collide south of the Vale of Tempe in Greece, leading to the deaths of at least 57 people and leaving 58 missing and 85 injured.
Tempi train crash
2013
Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pope to do so voluntarily since Pope Gregory XII in 1415.
Pope Benedict XVI
2002
During the religious violence in Gujarat, 97 people are killed in the Naroda Patiya massacre and 69 in the Gulbarg Society massacre.
2002 Gujarat violence
2001
The 2001 Nisqually earthquake, having a moment magnitude of 6.8, with epicenter in southern Puget Sound, damages the Seattle metropolitan area.
2001 Nisqually earthquake
1997
An earthquake in northern Iran is responsible for about 1,100 deaths.
1997 Ardabil earthquake
1997
A Turkish military memorandum results in the collapse of the coalition government in Turkey.
1997 Turkish military memorandum
1993
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader David Koresh, starting a 51-day standoff.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
1990
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-36.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1986
Olof Palme, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
Olof Palme
1985
The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers.
Provisional Irish Republican Army
1983
The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, with almost 110 million viewers.
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen
1975
In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
Moorgate tube crash
1974
The British election ends in a hung parliament after the Jeremy Thorpe-led Liberal Party achieved their biggest vote share since 1929.
February 1974 United Kingdom general election
1973
Aeroflot Flight X-167 crashes during takeoff from Semey Airport, killing 32 people.
Aeroflot Flight X-167
1969
The 1969 Portugal earthquake hits Portugal, Spain and Morocco.
1969 Portugal earthquake
1966
A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory while attempting a poor-visibility landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, killing astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett.
Northrop T-38 Talon
1959
Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched but fails to achieve orbit.
Discoverer 1
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 one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
Floyd County, Kentucky