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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