28th of February

See also: Category: Holidays February 28

National

•   Andalusia - Day of Andalusia
•   Finland - Kalevala Day

  Religious

  Catholicism

• memory of the martyr ;
• memory of Pope Gilarius ;
• memory of Aba I ;
• memory of ;
• memory of St. ;
• memory of Rufin.

  Orthodoxy ^[2]

• the memory of the icons of the Mother of God of Vilna (transferred to Vilna in 1495) and Dalmatia (1646);
• memory of the apostle from 70 Onesimus (c. 109);
• memory of St. Paphnutius and his daughters Euphrosyne (V century);
• memory of St. Eusebius, the Syrian desert (V century);
• the memory of the Monk Paphnutius, the recluse of the Caves, in the Far Caves (XIII century);
• memory of the holy martyrs Michael Pyatayev and John Kuminov , elders (1930);
• memory of the holy martyrs Nikolai Morkovin , Alexy Nikitsky , Alexy Smirnov , presbyters, Simeon Kulyamin deacon, Rev. Martyr Peter (Kozlov) and Rev. Martyr Sofia Seliverstova (1938).

Name Day

• Catholic: Aba, Averky , Hilarius , Roman , Oswald , Hilary
• Orthodox: Alexei , Arseny , Athanasius , Eusebius , Euphrosyne , Ivan , Mayor, Mikhail , Nikolai , Onisim , Paphnutius , Peter , Simeon , Sofia

See also: Category: February 28 events

Until the 19th century

• 1066 - Westminster Abbey opened.
• 1720 - by decree of Peter I , state colleges were established to streamline office work in all institutions of the Russian Empire .
• 1732 - the first Russian cadet corps was opened in Petersburg .

XIX century

• 1810 - The Guards crew was formed - the only naval unit of the Russian guard in pre-revolutionary Russia .
• 1825 - a convention was concluded on the delimitation of possessions of Russia and England in North America .
• 1835 - the first printed book of the Karelian-Finnish epos Kalevala was released.
• 1854 - The Republican Party of the United States was founded.

XX century

• 1918 - the Minsk underground regional committee of the RSDLP (b) was created .
• 1922
  • Egypt declared independence from Britain .
  • The first production of the play “ Princess Turandot ” by Carlo Gozzi in the 3rd studio of the Moscow Art Theater was carried out.
• 1925 - Radio Broadcasting Joint-Stock Company began to issue a special newspaper, Radio News.
• 1935 - American chemist Wallace Carothers first synthesizes nylon .
• 1940 - Soviet test pilot V.P. Fedorov made the first flight in the world on a rocket engine with a liquid-jet engine.
• 1951 - Linus Pauling and Robert Corey theoretically substantiate the forms of the secondary structure of proteins .
• 1955 - the grand opening of the railway link Hanoi - Beijing - Moscow - Berlin .
• 1956 - A network cable for computers is patented in the United States .
• 1966 - for the first time in the world, a detachment of atomic submarines of the USSR Navy entered circumnavigation , successfully completing a campaign in 1.5 months without surfacing.
• 1975 - in Lome, the European Economic Community signed the first Lome Convention on economic and trade relations with 46 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP countries).
• 1989 - In Venezuela, police, guards and the army suppress the unrest caused by neoliberal government reforms .
• 1990 - The Union of Russian Filmmakers was created.
• 1991 - The Gulf War ended.
• 1992
  • established diplomatic relations between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Africa .
  • the Republic of Srpska has been proclaimed in Bosnia and Herzegovina .
• 1994 - the only known air battle took place over Banja Luka during the Bosnian war .
• 1995 - The Social Democratic Party of Ukraine is registered.
• 1998 - the beginning of the armed conflict, known as the Kosovo War .

21st Century

• 2010 - The closing ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games was held at the BBC Place Stadium in Vancouver ( Canada ). Also, the Olympic flag was transferred from Vancouver to the capital of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics .
• 2013 - abdication of the throne of Benedict XVI .

See also: Category: Born on February 28

Until the 19th century

• 1155 - Henry the Young (d. 1183 ), nominal king of England (from 1170).
• 1533 - Michel Montaigne (d. 1592 ), French writer and philosopher.
• 1663 - Thomas Newcomen (d. 1729 ), English inventor, creator of one of the first steam engines.
• 1683 - Rene Antoine Reaumur (d. 1757 ), French naturalist and naturalist, entomologist , physicist and mathematician.
• 1690 - Alexey Petrovich (d. 1718 ), Russian Tsarevich, the eldest son of Peter I.
• 1760 - Apollos Musin-Pushkin (d. 1805 ), Russian scientist-chemist, mineralogist, physicist and botanist.
• 1783 - Gabriele Rossetti (d. 1854 ), Italian poet and patriot.

XIX century

• 1801 - Moteus Valančius (d. 1875 ), Lithuanian writer and church figure.
• 1802 - Ernst Friedrich Zwirner (d. 1861 ), German architect.
• 1806 - Siegfried Becher , Austrian statistician , political economist and teacher (d. 1873 ) ^[3] .
• 1820
  • Elisha Kane (d. 1857 ), American physician and polar explorer.
  • John Tenniel (d. 1914 ), English cartoonist, illustrator.
• 1824 - Charles Blondin (d. 1897 ), French circus artist, an unsurpassed tightrope walker.
• 1829 - Antonio Guzman Blanco (d. 1899 ), South American politician, diplomat, publicist, three times president of Venezuela .
• 1846 - Dzhambul Dzhabaev (d. 1945 ), Kazakh Soviet poet- akyn .
• 1857 - Vladimir Alexi-Meskhishvili (d. 1920 ), Georgian theater actor, director, teacher, head of the Tiflis and Kutaisi theaters.
• 1866 - Vyacheslav Ivanov (d. 1949 ), Russian poet and symbolist , philologist and philosopher.
• 1880 - Martiros Saryan (d. 1972 ), Armenian and Soviet landscape painter, graphic artist, theater artist.
• 1881 - Ilya Surguchev (d. 1956 ), Russian prose writer, playwright, publicist, literary critic, memoirist.
• 1886
  • Aladar Rat (d. 1958 ), Hungarian cymbalist.
  • Max Fasmer (d. 1962 ), German linguist , author of the etymological dictionary of the Russian language.
• 1889 - Pavel Dybenko (executed in 1938 ), Russian revolutionary, Soviet political and military leader.
• 1893 - Vsevolod Pudovkin (d. 1953 ), film director, actor, screenwriter, film theorist, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1895 - Marcel Pagnol (d. 1974 ), French playwright and film director, first cinematographer to become a member of the French Academy .
• 1896 - Philip Hench (d. 1965 ), American physician, Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine (1950).
• 1897 - Konstantin Chibisov (d. 1988 ), Soviet physicist-chemist, specialist in the field of photochemistry and scientific photography.

XX century

• 1901 - Linus Pauling (d. 1994 ), American chemist and crystallographer, public figure, winner of two Nobel Prizes: in chemistry (1954) and the world (1962).
• 1903 - Vincent Minnelli (d. 1986 ), American film and theater director.
• 1906 - Bugsy Siegel (assassinated in 1947 ), an American gangster who initiated the Las Vegas casino.
• 1909 - Pavel Serebryakov (mind 1977 ), Russian pianist, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1915 - Peter Brian Medawar (d. 1987 ), English biologist, Nobel laureate (1960).
• 1920
  • Boris Ivanov (d. 2002 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR .
  • Alexey Smirnov (d. 1979 ), theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR .
• 1922 - Yuri Lotman (d. 1993 ), Soviet literary critic, culturologist and semiotics .
• 1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva (d. 2011 ), daughter of Joseph Stalin .
• 1929 - Frank Gehry , one of the largest architects of our time.
• 1930 - Leon Neil Cooper , American physicist, Nobel laureate (1972).
• 1938 - Stefan Turchak (d. 1988 ), Ukrainian conductor, teacher, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1939
  • Andrey Gerasimov , Soviet and Russian film director.
  • Tamara Krasnyuk-Yablokova (d. 2008 ), Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, people's artist of the Russian Federation.
• 1940 - Vladislav Starkov (d. 2004 ), one of the organizers and editor-in-chief of the weekly Argumenty i Fakty weekly.
• 1942
  • Brian Jones (d. 1969 ), an English rock musician, rhythm guitarist for The Rolling Stones .
  • Dino Zoff , Italian football goalkeeper and coach.
• 1944 - Sepp Mayer , German soccer goalkeeper.
• 1945
  • Bubba Smith (d. 2011 ), an American actor and American football player.
  • Eugene Ginzburg (d. 2012 ), Soviet and Russian television and film director, screenwriter.
• 1946 - Valery Fokin , Soviet and Russian theater director, actor, teacher, people's artist of the Russian Federation.
• 1947 - Tatyana Vasilyeva , Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
• 1952 - Eldar Mansurov , Azerbaijani composer, People's Artist of Azerbaijan.
• 1958 - Natalia Estemirova (killed in 2009 ), Russian journalist, human rights activist.
• 1963 - Sergei Mavrin , a Russian rock musician, member of the groups Aria and Mavrin (formerly Mavrik).
• 1969
  • Andrey Dobrov , Soviet and Russian journalist, TV presenter.
  • Robert Sean Leonard , an American actor known for his role as Neil Perry in the film Society of the Dead Poets and the role of Dr. James Wilson in the television series Doctor House .
• 1972 - Ville Haapasalo , a Finnish actor.
• 1973 - Eric Lindros , Canadian hockey player, winner of the Canada Cup (1991), Olympic champion ( 2002 ).
• 1974 - Amanda Abbington , English film actress.
• 1976 - Eli Larter , American film actress and model.
• 1981 - Igor Kharlamov , Russian comedian, participant in the Comedy Club television project.
• 1982 - Natalia Vodianova , Russian top model.
• 1984 - Karolina Kurkova , Czech top model.
• 1993 - Emmily de Forest , Danish singer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 .

See also: Category: Dead on February 28

Until the 19th century

• 1525 - Kuautemok (b. 1495 ), the last Aztec emperor, executed by the Spaniards.
• 1572 - Aegidius Miracles (b. 1500 ), Swiss historian, geographer, politician.
• 1616 - Nicholas Christopher Radziwill Orphan (b. 1549 ), statesman and military leader of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania .
• 1648 - Christian IV (b. 1577 ), king of Denmark and Norway (from 1588).
• 1719 - Boris Sheremetev (b. 1652 ), the first Earl of Russia, diplomat, Field Marshal.
• 1728 - Ogu Soray (b. 1666 ), Japanese philosopher, enlightener, reformer, leader of the Confucians .

XIX century

• 1812 - Hugo Kollontai (b. 1750 ), Polish publicist and public figure in the Enlightenment.
• 1848 - John Quincy Adams (b. 1767 ), 6th US President (1825–1829), US Ambassador to Russia (1809–1814).
• 1855 - Peter Ricord (b. 1776 ), Russian admiral, traveler, scientist, diplomat, writer, shipbuilder, statesman and public figure.
• 1869 - Alfons de Lamartine (b. 1790 ), French romantic poet.
• 1896 - Ante Starcevic (b. 1823 ), Croatian writer and politician.
• 1897 - Leon Blumenstock-Halban , Polish psychiatrist and teacher, doctor of medicine; father of the historian Alfred Halban ^[4] .
• 1898 - Vasily Zavoyko (b. 1812 ), admiral, circumnavigator, organizer and leader of the defense of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky .

XX century

• 1916 - Henry James (b. 1843 ), American writer.
• 1918 - Nikolai Dubovsky (b. 1859 ), Russian painter, one of the leaders of the Association of Wanderers .
• 1924 - Semyon Novgorodov (b. 1892 ), Yakut politician and linguist, creator of the Yakut alphabet.
• 1929 - Clemens Pirke (b. 1874 ), an Austrian pediatrician who developed a skin test for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (Pirke reaction).
• 1934 - Sergey Oldenburg (b. 1863 ), orientalist, Minister of Education of the Provisional Government.
• 1936 - Charles Nicole (b. 1866 ), French microbiologist, Nobel laureate (1928).
• 1940 - Alexander Bezredka (b. 1870 ), French microbiologist and immunologist.
• 1941 - Alfonso XIII (b. 1886 ), king of Spain (1886-1931), grandfather of Juan Carlos I.
• 1950 - Nikolai Luzin (b. 1883 ), Soviet mathematician.
• 1951 - Vsevolod Vishnevsky (b. 1900 ), Russian Soviet writer, playwright.
• 1968 - Nikolai Voronov (b. 1899 ), chief artillery marshal, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1973 - Andrei Kostrichkin (b. 1901 ), film and theater actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1978 - Eric Frank Russell (b. 1905 ), English science fiction writer.
• 1985 - David Byron (b. 1947 ), vocalist of the English rock band Uriah Heep .
• 1986
  • Lyudmila Rudenko (b. 1904 ), Soviet chess player, grandmaster, 2nd world women's chess champion.
  • Olof Palme (born 1927 ), Prime Minister of Sweden (1969-1976, 1982-1986) was shot dead.
• 1990 - Emma Cesarskaya (b. 1909 ), actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1993
  • Ivan Tananaev (b. 1904 ), Soviet and Russian chemical scientist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences and RAS .
  • Isiro Honda (b. 1911 ), Japanese filmmaker.
• 1998 - Stepan Krylov (b. 1910 ), theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
• 2000 - Archbishop Michael (in the world Mikhail Mudyugin ; b. 1912 ), Bishop of the Russian Church , Archbishop of Vologda and Velikoustyuzhsky , activist of the ecumenical movement .

21st Century

• 2004 - Ruslan Gelayev (born 1964 ), a Chechen separatist, was killed.
• 2006 - Owen Chamberlain (b. 1920 ), American physicist, creator of the atomic bomb, Nobel laureate (1959).
• 2007 - Arthur Meyer Schlesinger, Jr. (born 1917 ), American historian.
• 2011
  • Annie Girardeau (b. 1931 ), French theater and film actress.
  • Jane Russell (b. 1921 ), American film actress.
• 2014 - Rostislav Belyakov (b. 1919 ), aircraft designer, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, twice Hero of Socialist Labor.
• 2017 - Vladimir Petrov (b. 1947 ), Soviet hockey player, multiple world and Olympic champion.

Onisim Ovcharnik . Zimobor .

• Sheepdogs hail the stars to make the lambs laminate ^[5] .
• On Onesim the shepherd, winter becomes hornless (loses its strength) ^[6] .
• A large increase in water portends good haymaking ^[6] .
• In Zimobor, winter and spring begin to struggle - to whom to go forward, and to whom to turn back ^{[7] [8]} .

• Grushko E.A. Encyclopedia of Russians. - M .: EKSMO-Press, 2000 .-- 432 p. - ISBN 5-04-004217-5 .