February 28
1066 | Westminster Abbey, the most famous church in England, opens its doors. | |
1574 | On the orders of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, two Englishmen and an Irishman are burnt for heresy. | |
1610 | Thomas West is appointed governor of Virginia. | |
1704 | Indians attack Deerfield, Mass. killing 40 and kidnapping 100. | |
1847 | Colonel Alexander Doniphan and his ragtag Missouri Mounted Volunteers ride to victory at the Battle of Sacramento, during the Mexican War. | |
1861 | The territory of Colorado is established. | |
1900 | After a 119-day siege by the Boers, the surrounded British troops in Ladysmith, South Africa, are relieved. | |
1863 | Four Union gunboats destroy the CSS Nashville near Fort McAllister, Georgia. | |
1916 | Haiti becomes the first U.S. protectorate. | |
1924 | U.S. troops are sent to Honduras to protect American interests during an election conflict. | |
1936 | The Japanese Army restores order in Tokyo and arrests officers involved in a coup. | |
1945 | U.S. tanks break the natural defense line west of the Rhine and cross the Erft River. | |
1946 | The U.S. Army declares that it will use V-2 rocket to test radar as an atomic rocket defense system. | |
1953 | Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia sign a 5-year defense pact in Ankara. | |
1967 | In Mississippi, 19 are indicted in the slayings of three civil rights workers. | |
1969 | A Los Angeles court refuses Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan's request to be executed. | |
1971 | The male electorate in Lichtenstein refuses to give voting rights to women. | |
1994 | U.S. warplanes shoot down four Serb aircraft over Bosnia in the first NATO use of force in the troubled area. |
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