WHAT HAPPENED ON 28. FEBRUARY
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Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force. (28. February 1897)

The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted. (28. February 1900)

The Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus is proclaimed in Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living in southern Albania. (28. February 1914)

The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. (28. February 1922)

The Charlevoix-Kamouraska earthquake strikes northeastern North America. (28. February 1925)

C.V. Raman discovers the Raman effect. (28. February 1928)

Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire. (28. February 1933)

DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon. (28. February 1935)

The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation. (28. February 1939)

Basketball is televised for the first time (Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden). (28. February 1940)

The heavy cruiser USS Houston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMAS Perth which lost 375 men. (28. February 1942)

228 massacre: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of an estimated 30,000 civilians. (28. February 1947)

James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2). (28. February 1953)

The first color television sets using the NTSC standard are offered for sale to the general public. (28. February 1954)

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 what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history. (28. February 1958)

Discoverer 1, an American spy satellite that is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. It failed to achieve orbit. (28. February 1959)

Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué. (28. February 1972)

In London an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people. (28. February 1975)

Andalusia approves its statute of autonomy through a referendum. (28. February 1980)

The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day. (28. February 1985)