Today in History
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2013 Pope Benedict XVI resigns
The pope, whose birth name is Joseph Ratzinger, is the first Catholic Church leader to resign since 1415.
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1991 The first Gulf War ends
The armed conflict had lasted a little over half a year and claimed over 100,000 civilian casualties.
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1986 Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is assassinated
Even though over 130 people have confessed to the murder, the case has never been solved.
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1975 A London underground train crashes into the end of the tunnel at Moorgate station
The Moorgate tube crash claimed 43 lives and was the London Underground’s deadliest accident during peacetime.
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1935 Nylon is invented
Wallace Carothers first produced the polymer at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.
Births On This Day, February 28
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1953 Paul Krugman
American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1948 Bernadette Peters
American actress, singer, author
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1929 Frank Gehry
Canadian/American architect, designed 8 Spruce Street, Walt Disney Concert Hall
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1901 Linus Pauling
American chemist, activist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1894 Ben Hecht
American screenwriter, director, producer
Deaths On This Day, February 28
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2009 Paul Harvey
American radio host
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2007 Billy Thorpe
English/Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
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1977 Eddie Anderson
American actor
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1925 Friedrich Ebert
German politician, 1st President of Germany
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1916 Henry James
American/English author
