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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28" title="February 28">February 28</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevala" title="Kalevala"><i>Kalevala</i> Day / Finnish Culture Day</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1874" title="1874">1874</a> – In one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court, the claimant in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborne_case" title="Tichborne case">Tichborne case</a></b> was convicted of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perjury" title="Perjury">perjury</a> for attempting to assume the identity of the missing heir to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborne_baronets" title="Tichborne baronets">Tichborne baronetcy</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904" title="1904">1904</a> – The most successful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> club in Portugal, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.L._Benfica" title="S.L. Benfica">S.L. Benfica</a></b>, was founded in Lisbon as Sport Lisboa.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1914" title="1914">1914</a> – In the aftermath of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_Wars" title="Balkan Wars">Balkan Wars</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks_in_Albania" title="Greeks in Albania">Greeks living in southern Albania</a> proclaimed the short-lived <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Republic_of_Northern_Epirus" title="Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus">Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939" title="1939">1939</a> – In one of the most famous errors in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicography" title="Lexicography">lexicography</a>, the erroneous word "<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dord" title="Dord">dord</a></b>" was discovered in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webster%27s_Dictionary" title="Webster's Dictionary">Webster's New International Dictionary</a></i> by an editor.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974" title="1974">1974</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">British election</a> ended in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_parliament" title="Hung parliament">hung parliament</a> after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a>, under <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Thorpe" title="Jeremy Thorpe">Jeremy Thorpe</a></b>, achieved their highest ever number of votes.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortense_Allart" title="Hortense Allart">Hortense Allart</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1879); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Zorach" title="William Zorach">William Zorach</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1889); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_C._Kraft_Jr." title="Christopher C. Kraft Jr.">Christopher C. Kraft Jr.</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1924); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Caj%C3%ADas" title="Fernando Cajías">Fernando Cajías</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1949)</p>
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