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02/28/1886
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Jos‚ Guti‚rrez Solana, Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1886
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Max Vasmer, German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1887
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William Zorach, Lithuania, US sculptor (Spirit of the Dance)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1888
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Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes
Type: Event
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02/28/1888
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Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres
Type: Event
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02/28/1889
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Victor Sutherland, Paducah KY, actor (Captive City)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1890
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Vaslav Nijinsky, Kiev Ukraine, ballet dancer (3/12 NS)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1891
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Oscar Grund‚n skates world record 500m (50.8 sec)
Type: Event
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02/28/1893
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Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum"
Type: Event
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02/28/1893
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Ben Hecht, NYC, novelist/playwright/screenwriter (Front Page)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1895
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Guiomar Novaes, Brazil, pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1895
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Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director (Marchands de Gloire)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1896
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France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar
Type: Event
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02/28/1896
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Philip Showalter Hench, Pittsburgh, physician (cortisone-Nobel)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1898
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Molly Picon, Yiddish actress (Milk and Honey)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1899
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Frederick Denison Maurice Hocking, pathologist
Type: Birth
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02/28/1900
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General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal
Type: Event
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02/28/1900
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Laura Z Hobson, writer
Type: Birth
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02/28/1901
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Linus Pauling, chemist/peace worker (Nobel 1954, 1962)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1901
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Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1902
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Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo
Type: Event
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02/28/1903
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Barney Dreyfuss and James Potter buys Phila Phillies for $170,000
Type: Event
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02/28/1903
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Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet, dies at 88
Type: Death
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02/28/1904
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Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres
Type: Event
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02/28/1905
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Glyn Jones, writer
Type: Birth
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02/28/1905
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Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85
Type: Death
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02/28/1906
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Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queen's U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games
Type: Event
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02/28/1906
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Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas
Type: Birth
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02/28/1907
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Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, Dutch cartoonist (Terry and Pirates)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1908
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Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran
Type: Event
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02/28/1909
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Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1909
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Stephen Harold Spender, Engld, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1910
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Roman Maciejewski, composer
Type: Birth
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02/28/1910
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Vincente Minnelli, Chicago IL, director (American in Paris, Gigi)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1911
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Amir Hamzah, Indonesian poet (Njanji Sunji)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1912
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Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50
Type: Event
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02/28/1912
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Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director (Max-Planck-institute)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1912
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Bill Storer, English cricket wicketkeeper (6 Tests 1897-99), dies
Type: Death
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02/28/1913
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6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic)
Type: Event
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02/28/1913
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Elephant seal, 6.8-m, 4000-kg, killed in S Georgia (South Atlantic)
Type: Death
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02/28/1914
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Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (SF)
Type: Event
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02/28/1914
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Jim Boles, Lubbock Tx, actor (Joe-One Man's Family)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1915
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Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist (Nobel 1953)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1915
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Zero "Samuel" Mostel, Brooklyn, actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
Type: Birth
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02/28/1916
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Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), dies in London at 72
Type: Death
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02/28/1917
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AP reports M‚xico and Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
Type: Event
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02/28/1917
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Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
Type: Event
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02/28/1917
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Hans Deutgen, Sweden, world champion archer
Type: Birth
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02/28/1917
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John B Connally, (Gov/Sen-D/R-Tx), took a bullet with JFK
Type: Birth
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02/28/1918
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Alfred Burke, London England, actor (Backfire)
Type: Birth
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