February 28: Teachers' Day in the Arab world; Kalevala Day in Finland
Olof Palme
- 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.
- 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.
- 1914 – In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, Greeks living in southern Albania proclaimed the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.
- 1986 – Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme (pictured) was assassinated by a lone gunman in Stockholm while walking home from a movie theatre with his wife Lisbet Palme.
- 2002 – During the 2002 Gujarat violence in India, mobs of Hindus attacked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and Chamanpura, resulting in 166 deaths.
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