Page 7: Historical Events In February - 28

1939  Great-Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain.   

1939  Tommy Tune, Tony Award-winning dancer and actor is born   

1940  Mario Andretti, auto racer and Indianapolis 500 Hall of Famer was born   

1940  Richard Wright's "Native Son" published.   

1940  Mario Andretti, Race-car driver is born   

1940  The inaugural college basketball games are televised, as W2XBS in NY City broadcasts a pair of games from Madison Square Garden.   

1940  US population at 131669275 (12865518 blacks (9.8%)).   

1940  1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37).   

1940  Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81.   

1941  British-Italian dogfight above Albania.   

1941  39 U Boats (197000 ton) sunk this month   

1942  HMAS PERTH (RAN) sunk in Sunda Strait, western Java by torpedoes and 8in gunfire of Japanese cruiser force.   

1942  Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies.   

1942  Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit.   

1942  1st weapon drop on Netherlands   

1943  "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan.   

1944  Bernadette Peters, Actress is born   

1947  Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan   

1948  The last British troops leave India.   

1949  Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65.   

1950  "Alive and Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 perfs.   

1951  French government of Pleven dissolves   

1951  Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates.   

1951  French govt of Pleven dissolves.   

1953  Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Malenkov   

1953  Jim Thorpe, decathlete (Olympics-gold-1912), dies at 64.   

1954  US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island.   

1956  13 die in a train crash in Swampscott MA.   

1956  A Chatham Ontario restaurant is fined $50 for refusing to serve two black students   

1956  Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory   

1958  West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket.   

1959  "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances.   

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 CAN   

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1155  Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (d. 1183) was born on February - 28.   

1261  Margaret of Scotland, queen of Norway (d. 1283) was born on this day in history.   

1409  On February - 28 birth of elisabeth II of Bohemia (d. 1442)   

1533  On February - 28 birth of michel de Montaigne, France, essayist/philosopher   

1552  Jobst Borgi, [Justus Byrgius], Swiss/German mathematician was born on this day in history.   

1552  Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker (d. 1632) was born on February - 28.   

1573  Elias Hill, German architect/city builder (Augsburg) was born on February - 28.   

1612  On this day in history birth of john Pearson, English theologian (d. 1686)   

0642  On this day in history oswald, English missionary/saint, dies in battle   

1261  On this day in history hendrik, duke of Brabant (1248-61), dies   

1326  On this day in history death of duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)   

1453  Death of Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400) on February - 28.   

1485  On this day in history death of niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)   

1510  On this day in history death of juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer   

1525  On this day in history death of cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler   

1572  Death of Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505) on this day in history.