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What happened in history on this day: February 28?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On February 28 in ...
- 1942 - The Pluto film Pluto, Junior is released to theaters.
- 1965 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Almost Angels, part one.
- 1987 - Disney releases the film Sleeping Beauty on laserdisc in the US, for US$37-45.
- 1987 - The Disney Channel airs the Disney Channel Premiere Film Strange Companions.
- 1993 - The Disney Channel premieres the first episode of the animated Bonkers series.
- 1997 - The ABC TV network airs Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party.
- 1999 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A girl is asked what her favorite movie is. She replies "Until you taped over it, The Little Mermaid".
- 2002 - Michael Eisner testifies at the Senate Commerce Committee in Washington, D.C., on protection of digital content from piracy. Eisner refers to Apple Computer ads for the iPod as encouraging copyright violation.
- 1960 - In Havana, Cuba, the Grand Prix of Havana race is held.
- Finishing 8th overall and 1st in GT class is the #3 Camoradi U.S.A. Corvette driven by Jim Jeffords.
- The Camoradi USA #4 Corvette, driven by Jim Rathmann, was in second place until it encountered electrical problems.
- 1960 - The SCCA National Palm Spring race is held.
- Finishing 1st overall is the Corvette driven by Bob Bondurant.
- Finishing 2nd overall is the Corvette driven by Vince Mayel.
- Finishing 3rd overall is the Corvette driven by Tony Settember.
- 2004 - At the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Miami, Florida, the Grand Prix of Miami race is held, round two of the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series.
- Finishing 8th in SGS class and 31st overall is the Michael Baughman Racing #46 Corvette, driven by Gary St. Amour and Mike Yeakle.
- Finishing 10th in GT class and 36th overall is the SL Motorsports #06 Corvette, driven by Steve Lisa and David Rosenblum.
- 1942 - Australian cruiser Perth and American cruiser Houston reach the Japanese Western Invasion Force disembarking troops. They damage three Japanese destroyers, sink a minesweeper and a transport, and force three transports to beach.
- 1942 - (2345 hours) Australian cruiser Perth sinks in Sunda Strait, victim of Japanese torpedoes.
- 1942 - (to March 1) Japanese troops land at Merak, Bantam, Eretan Wetan, and Kragan.
- 1943 - (evening) 437 British bombers attack German submarine bases at St. Nazaire.
- 1944 - German forces in Italy launch another counterattack on the Anzio front.
- 1944 - The Japanese Sakurai Unit and Doi Unit withdraw to the line of the Maungdaw - Buthidaung road. During the recent Japanese offensive, casualties totaled about 5000 Japanese and 3500 British and Indian soldiers.
- 1945 - British Bomber Command makes an air raid on the Nordstern oil plant in Gelsenkirchen, inflicting severe damaged.
- 1946 - US Military Trial Commission in Shanghai, China, sentences five former Japanese soldiers to be hanged for strangulation and cremation of three American B-29 airmen at Hankow in December 1944.
- 1946 - Combined Chiefs of Staff reveal that the American, Canadian, and British Governments had experimented with building ice ships during 1942-43. The Habbakuk project was to create a 2 million ton ship made of ice and wood pulp, 2000 feet long, 300 feet wide, as a floating aircraft base.
- 1946 - A war crimes court in Singapore sentences Lieutenant General Fukuei Shimpei, commander of Japanese prisoner-of-war camps in Malaya to death by shooting.
- 1998 - Nintendo releases the Yoshi's Story video game for the Nintendo 64 in the US.
- 1998 - Namco releases the Tekken 3 video game for the PlayStation in the US.
- 1999 - Acclaim Entertainment releases the Mortal Kombat 4 video game for the PlayStation in the US.
- 2005 - EA Sports releases the Fight Night: Round 2 video game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube in the US.
- 2005 - Legislators in Illinois introduce a bill to ban sales of violent and sexually explicit games to anyone under age 18.
- 2006 - Electronic Arts releases the Black video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the USA.
- 2006 - EA Sports Big releases the FIFA Street 2 video game for the PlayStation 2, GameCube, and Xbox in the US.
- 2017 - Sony Interactive Entertainment releases the Horizon Zero Dawn video game for the PlayStation 4 in the USA.
- 1986 - (11:21 PM) While walking home with his wife from a movie, Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot dead in Stockholm.
- 1994 - Negotiators arrive at a deal between Sweden and the European Union, for Sweden to join the EU if a referendum vote is in favor.
- 1974 - A & W (USA) begins using an image as a trade-mark of a walking bear in a sweater with an oval A & W logo on its chest.
- 1974 - A & W (USA) begins using "ROOTBEAR" as a trade-mark.
- 1991 - The A & W Concentrate Company renews its registered trademark of the logo of an oval double-boomerang with "A & W".
- 2003 - The Royal Canadian Mint announces that David Dingwall will be the new Master of the Mint.
- 1797 - The Mint delivers 60 1797-dated Draped Bust, Small Eagle silver half dollars to the Bank of the United States for circulation.
- 1878 - US Congress enacts the Bland-Allison Act (over President Rutherford B. Hayes' veto). The act:
- eliminates the Trade dollar,
- requires the US Treasury to buy $2-4 million of silver at market rates per month and coin it as silver dollars,
- and authorizes $10 and higher silver certificates of deposit redeemable for silver dollars.
- 1878 - Working hubs of Morgan-designed dollar coin are completed.
- 1916 - Treasury Department approves Hermon Atkins MacNeil's Standing Liberty quarter dollar designs.
- 1943 - The US Mint begins striking zinc-coated steel Lincoln cents for circulation.
- 2008 - The US Senate votes unanimously to approve legislation authorizing the US Mint to strike and issue 2008 Sacagawea dollar coins in their original designs.
- 2008 - Representative Zack Space of Ohio introduces H.R. 5512, the "Coin Modernization and Taxpayer Savings Act of 2008", in the House of Representatives, calling for the manufacture of a copper-treated steel cent for circulation, and requiring the US Mint lose money on any circulating coin for five years before changing alloys.
- 2008 - (to March 1) At the Baltimore Coin and Currency Convention, Bowers and Merena Auctions conducts the official auction. An 1870-S silver dollar, one of nine known, graded VF-25 by PCGS sells for $705,698.
- 1891 - Oscar Grundén skates world record 500 metre (50.8 seconds).
- 1903 - Barney Dreyfuss and James Potter buy Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000.
- 1906 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver Seven sweep Queens University (Kingston Ontario) in two games.
- 1929 - Chicago Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home.
- 1931 - Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass.
- 1940 - First televised basketball game (college game at New York City's Madison Square Garden-University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham University, 50-37).
- 1954 - Patty Berg/Pete Cooper win LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament.
- 1957 - Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory.
- 1958 - West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day three of third Test Cricket.
- 1959 - Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny and Jones of Great Britain.
- 1959 - Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul of Canada.
- 1959 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss USA.
- 1959 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA.
- 1959 - NFL Chicago Cardinals trade Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for nine players.
- 1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open.
- 1960 - US wins Olympics hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4.
- 1960 - VIII Olympic Winter Games at Squaw Valley, California close.
- 1966 - Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Los Angeles Dodgers.
- 1967 - Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal.
- 1969 - Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler and Ford of Great Britain.
- 1969 - Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina and Ulanov of USSR.
- 1969 - Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert, German Democratic Republic.
- 1969 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood USA.
- 1970 - Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53).
- 1971 - 53rd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National to win his second golf grand slam.
- 1981 - Calvin Murphy (Houston Rockets) sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws.
- 1982 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic.
- 1986 - Seven Major League Baseball players, who are admitted drug users, are severely disciplined by Commissioner Peter Ueberroth. Penalties include year-long suspensions without pay, heavy fines, drug-related community service and career-long drug testing.
- 1988 - XV Olympic Winter Games close at Calgary, Canada.
- 1988 - Pat Verbeek becomes first New Jersey Devils' player to score four goals in an NHL game.
- 1988 - Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13).
- 1989 - Red Schoendienst and Al Barlick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.
- 1991 - Don Mattingly named 10th New York Yankees' Captain.
- 1991 - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500 metre indoor (3:34:16).
- 1993 - Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46 metres).
- 1998 - Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is fourth NHL player to get 1,600 points.
- 2010 - The 2010 Winter Olympics close in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. An estimated 3.5 billion people watched the games worldwide. Canada won 14 gold medals, most ever by a single nation at the Winter Games.
- 2022 - At crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, USA, NHL regular season game: Boston Bruins beats Los Angeles Kings by score 7-0.
- 2022 - At Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., USA, NHL regular season game: Toronto Maple Leafs beats Washington Capitals by score 5-3.
- 2022 - At Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, USA, NHL regular season game: New Jersey Devils beats Vancouver Canucks by score 7-2.
- 1826 - M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet.
- 1959 - Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-first polar orbit.
- 1990 - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit.
- 2007 - The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter which changes its trajectory towards Pluto.
- 1778 - Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves.
- 1794 - US Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin.
- 1810 - First US fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia.
- 1827 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is the first US railway to be chartered for commercial transportation of freight and passengers.
- 1844 - 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes.
- 1845 - Congress approves joint resolution to accept Texas as a state.
- 1847 - US defeats México in battle of Sacramento.
- 1854 - Republican Party formally organizes at Ripon, Wisconsin.
- 1859 - Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery.
- 1860 - William C. Price takes office as US Treasurer.
- 1863 - Confederate raider Nashville sinks near Fort McAllister, Georgia.
- 1864 - Raid at Kilpatrick's, Richmond.
- 1864 - Skirmish at Albemarle County, Virginia (Burton's Ford).
- 1871 - Second Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections.
- 1878 - US Congress enacts the Bland-Allison Act (over President Rutherford B. Hayes' veto), requiring the US Treasury to buy silver at market rates and coin it as silver dollars, and authorizes silver certificates of deposit.
- 1879 - "Exodus of 1879" as US southern blacks flee political and economic exploitation.
- 1882 - First US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University.
- 1883 - First US vaudeville theater opens (Boston, Massachusetts).
- 1893 - Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania, USA, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum".
- 1917 - Associated Press reports México and Japan will ally with Germany if US enters Great War.
- 1924 - US begins intervention in Honduras.
- 1925 - US Congress authorizes a special handling stamp.
- 1940 - US population at 131,669,275.
- 1942 - Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit, Illinois.
- 1946 - Combined Chiefs of Staff reveal that the American, Canadian, and British Governments had experimented with building ice ships during 1942-43. The Habbakuk project was to create a two-million-ton ship made of ice and wood pulp, 2000 feet long, 300 feet wide, as a floating aircraft base.
- 1951 - US Senate committee reports of at least two major US crime syndicates.
- 1953 - Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announce that they have determined the double-helix structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the molecule containing human genes.
- 1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.
- 1956 - Thirteen die in a train crash in Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1959 - Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-first polar orbit.
- 1961 - US President John Kennedy names Henry Kissinger special advisor.
- 1972 - US President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China.
- 1973 - In New Jersey, USA, a magnitude 3.8 earthquake occurs.
- 1974 - US and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after seven years.
- 1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1977 - First killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles, California).
- 1979 - In Mt. Saint Elias, Alaska, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurs.
- 1980 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1982 - FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street, New York.
- 1982 - AT&T loses record US$7 billion for fiscal year ending on this day.
- 1983 - Final TV episode of MASH airs (CBS); record 125 million watch.
- 1989 - Gretchen Polhemus, age 23, of Texas, crowned 38th Miss USA.
- 1990 - In Southern California, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurs.
- 1991 - US and allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire.
- 1993 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and five Davidians die in the raid and a 51-day standoff begins.
- 1994 - Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, goes into effect.
- 1995 - Members of the group Patriot's Council are convicted in Minnesota of manufacturing ricin.
- 1995 - Denver International Airport opens in Colorado, USA.
- 1997 - FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia.
- 1997 - Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US.
- 1997 - The North Hollywood shootout takes place between two heavily armed bank robbers and officers of the Los Angeles Police Department.
- 1997 - WFAA-TV becomes the first TV station in the USA to start broadcasting their newscasts in HDTV on a VHF channel.
- 2001 - In Washington state, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. About 400 people injured and major damage in the Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia area. Damage estimate between US$1 and 4 billion.
- 2008 - Legislation (HR 5512) is introduced in the House of Representatives, the Coin Modernization and Taxpayer Savings Act of 2008. It includes replacing the copper-plated zinc cent with a steel coin, and requiring the US Mint lose money on any circulating coin for five years before changing alloys.
- 2008 - A report by the Pew Center on the United States says the American penal system held more than 2.3 million adults at the start of the year, meaning more than one in every 100 American adults is confined in a prison or jail, the highest ratio in the nation's history. The report also notes that the United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world.
Other history:
- 1983 - Final TV episode of "MASH" airs in the USA; record 125 million viewers.
- 2002 - The ex-currencies of all euro members officially (at EU-level) cease to be legal tender.
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