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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/1638" title="1638">1638</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Covenant" title="National Covenant">National Covenant</a></b> was formally adopted in opposition to proposed reforms to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scotland" title="Church of Scotland">Church of Scotland</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">King Charles I</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1897" title="1897">1897</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranavalona_III" title="Ranavalona III">Ranavalona III</a></b>, the last sovereign ruler of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merina_Kingdom" title="Merina Kingdom">Kingdom of Madagascar</a>, was deposed by French military forces.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928" title="1928">1928</a> – Indian physicist <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman" title="C. V. Raman">C. V. Raman</a></b> and his colleagues discovered what is now known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_scattering" title="Raman scattering">Raman scattering</a>, for which he later became the first Asian to win the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics" title="Nobel Prize in Physics">Nobel Prize in Physics</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947" title="1947">1947</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_government" title="Nationalist government">Nationalist</a> soldiers <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28_incident" title="February 28 incident">fired on protesters</a></b> in Taipei, triggering widespread uprisings and the violent suppression in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)" title="White Terror (Taiwan)">Taiwanese White Terror</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975" title="1975">1975</a> – A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground" title="London Underground">London Underground</a> train failed to stop at the terminal <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_station" title="Moorgate station">Moorgate station</a>, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash" title="Moorgate tube crash">crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people</a></b>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Gemma" title="Cornelius Gemma">Cornelius Gemma</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1535); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Fatou" title="Pierre Fatou">Pierre Fatou</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1878); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Muzychuk" title="Anna Muzychuk">Anna Muzychuk</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1990)</p>