February
28
Independence
Day
Egypt : 28 February 1922
February
28
National Science
Day in India
Kalevala Day, the day of Finnish
Culture. (Finland)
National Science Day (India)
Peace Memorial Day (Taiwan)
Teacher's Day (Arab countries)
The third day of Ayyám-i-Há (Bahá'í
Faith)
Rare Disease Day (last day of February)
February
28
Andalusia, Spain
Dia de Andalucia
February
28 : National Science Day
National Science Day is celebrated
in India on February 28 every year
to mark the discovery of Raman effect
by C.V. Raman.[1] The event is commemorated
in honour of Sir C.V. Raman for
his legacy and discovery of the
Raman effect on February 28, 1927,
for which he was awarded the Nobel
Prize in 1930.
Sir
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman,(born
on:7 November 1888 – died on:21
November 1970) was an Indian physicist
and Nobel laureate in physics recognised
for his work on the molecular scattering
of light and for the discovery of
the Raman effect, which is named
after him
Events
February 28
1700
– Today is followed by March 1 in
Sweden, thus creating the Swedish
calendar.
1838 – Robert Nelson, leader of
the Patriotes, proclaims the independence
of Lower Canada (today Quebec)
1885 – The American Telephone and
Telegraph Company is incorporated
in New York State as the subsidiary
of American Bell Telephone. (American
Bell would later merge with its
subsidiary.)
1914 – The Autonomous Republic of
Northern Epirus is proclaimed in
Gjirokastër, by the Greeks living
in southern Albania.
1922 – The United Kingdom ends its
protectorate over Egypt through
a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1928 – C.V. Raman discovers Raman
effect.
1935 – DuPont scientist Wallace
Carothers invents nylon.
1942 – 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.
1947 – 228 Incident: In Taiwan,
civil disorder is put down with
the loss of 30,000 civilian lives.
1953 – 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).
1954 – The first color television
sets using the NTSC standard are
offered for sale to the general
public.
1959 – Discoverer 1, an American
spy satellite that is the first
object to achieve a polar orbit,
is launched.
1986 – Olof Palme, Prime Minister
of Sweden, is assassinated in Stockholm.
1997 – An earthquake of magnitude
6.1 in Armenia and Azerbaijan kills
around 1,100 people
1997 – An earthquake in northern
Iran is responsible for about 3,000
deaths.
1997 – GRB 970228, a highly luminous
flash of gamma rays, strikes the
Earth for 80 seconds, providing
early evidence that gamma-ray bursts
occur well beyond the Milky Way.
2001 – The Nisqually Earthquake
measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale
hits the Nisqually Valley and the
Seattle, Tacoma, and Olympia area
of the U.S. state of Washington.
2004 – Over 1 million Taiwanese
participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand
Rally form a 500-kilometre (310
mi) long human chain to commemorate
the 228 Incident in 1947
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