870 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
1638 - The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh.
1784 - John Wesley charters the Methodist Church.
1811 - Cry of Asencio, beginning of the Uruguayan War of Independence
1897 - Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
1900 - The Second Boer War: The 118-day "Siege of Ladysmith" is lifted.
1922 - The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1935 - DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
1947 - 228 massacre: In Taiwan, civil disorder is put down with the loss of estimated 30,000 civilians.
1972 - Sino-American relations: The United States and People's Republic of China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
1985 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry, killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
1991 - The first Gulf War ends.
1997 - GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
1998 - Kosovo War: Serbian police begin the offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in Kosovo.
2004 - Over 1 million Taiwanese participating in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 500-kilometre (310 mi) long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947
2013 - Pope Benedict XVI resigns the papacy, becoming the first Pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415. Pope Benedict XVI will be the first Pope to have resigned without external pressure since Pope Celestine V in 1294.
Famous Birthdays
1155 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England
1261 - Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway
1683 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, scientist
1860 - Basil Spalding de Garmendia, tennis player
1882 - Pádraic Ó Conaire, writer
1908 - Billie Bird, actress
1912 - Clara Petacci, mistress of Benito Mussolini
1926 - Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin
1931 - Iajuddin Ahmed, 13th President of Bangladesh
1942 - Brian Jones, musician
1947 - Stephanie Beacham, actress
1959 - Megan McDonald, children's author
1975 - Greg Simkins, painter
1981 - Florent Serra, tennis player
1984 - Christian Müller, footballer
1988 - Maikol Negro, footballer
1991 - Sarah Bolger, actress
2007 - HRH Princess Lalla Khadija of Morocco
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