February 28: Shrove Tuesday (Western Christianity, 2017); Kalevala Day in Finland
Queen Ranavalona III of Madagascar
- 1844 – A gun on USS Princeton exploded while the warship was on a Potomac River cruise, killing six people and injuring twenty others.
- 1897 – Ranavalona III (pictured), the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.
- 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 – 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.
Michel de Montaigne (b. 1533) · Koesbini (d. 1991)
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