February 28th Anniversaries

Santo Domingo.- The ephemeris of the 28th of February, are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history.

• World Rare Disease Day. It is an anniversary of the 28th of February since the year 2008.
• Uruguay: Grito de Asencio. It is an anniversary of the 28th of February since the year 1811.
• Spain: Day of Andalusia. It is an anniversary of the 28th of February since the year 1980.
• Argentina: Dancer's Day. It is an anniversary of the 28th of February since the year 1992.
• Republic of China: Peace Day.
• Teacher's Day in: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Oman and Yemen

National: February 28th Anniversaries

• 1844. In the early hours of the morning, the patrician Francisco del Rosario Sánchez leads the act of raising the national flag at the Puerta del Conde.
• -The independence fighter Juana Baltasara de los Reyes serves as a guard in one of the fortresses of Santo Domingo and makes several daring incursions into the Ozama River.  
• 1930. President Horacio Vásquez, as if it were a plan previously agreed with Trujillo, resigns from the presidency of the Republic and Rafael Estrella Ureña, takes the position of Secretary of State of the Interior.
• 1946. A strike begins in the sugar mills of San Pedro de Macorís led, among others, by Mauricio Báez, which lasts two days, which demonstrated to the Government and the businessmen the strength of the sugarcane workers.
• 1947. The disappeared Cement Factory “Colón”, owned by the Dominican State, is inaugurated.

• 1954. The building that currently houses the National Archive of the Nation. is inaugurated.
• 1959. The Rahintel television channel (Radio HIN Televisión) is inaugurated, being the second television station and the first private one in the country.
• 1963. The landowner Antonio Guzmán Fernández is sworn in as Minister of Agriculture, replacing the dentist José Selig Hernández.
• 1968. The former founder of the PRD, Nicolás Silfa, is appointed ambassador in charge of the Division for UN Affairs, the OAS, organizations and international conferences of the chancellery.
• 1973. Former President Juan Bosch sends a manuscript "for the consumption of the people" to the media, in which he expresses: "I am among those who doubted and continue to doubt (the existence of the guerrilla led by ex-Colonel Francisco Caamano)" because Balaguer and the Armed Forces accused him of being an instigator of the landing and how that was false   "… it could very well be that the whole story of the invasion was also false."
• 1987. The Dominican Liberation Party adopts Boschism as the political theory of the organization.
• 2006. The Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) and the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC) agree to participate with joint candidacies in the legislative and municipal elections of May 16 of this year, called the Gran Alianza Nacional or "Alianza Rosada".
• 2014. The U.S. Department of State denounces in its annual report on human rights in the world, the "discrimination" against Haitian immigrants and their descendants in the Dominican Republic.
• 2015. The confessed and tried drug trafficker Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo arrives unexpectedly in the country from the United States, without the US authorities informing the Dominican authorities beforehand.
• 2018. Economist Miguel Ceara Hatton affirms that the country incurs debt of RD$293 every minute and RD$421,000 every day, so the debt reaches US$37.255 million. 
• 2021. The rector of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Alfredo de la Cruz Baldera, reveals that the Molecular Biology Laboratory of that higher education institution is capable of producing the vaccines used to combat the coronavirus, if the release of patents is achieved. 
• -The president of the Instituto Duartiano, Wilson Gómez Ramírez, proposes to the government to consider establishing fees for the births of foreigners in public hospital establishments, to stop the corridor of Haitian maternity wards towards the country, alleviating "the heavy economic burden that it represents for the health budget".
• 2022. Due to the repatriations of undocumented Haitian mothers carried out by the Dominican government, the Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination against Women of the UN, demands that the world organization "take the appropriate measures" to improve the situation of that group.
• - Some 3,000 Ukrainian tourists are stranded in the Dominican Republic without the possibility of returning to their country, after air connections were canceled due to the Russian invasion.
  

International: February 28th Anniversaries

• 380. Emperor Theodosius I the Great orders the empire to adopt the Christian religion.
• 1520. The revolt of the Brotherhood of Guilds against the nobles begins in Valencia, known as the "Guerra de las Germanías".
• 1525. Indigenous leader Cuauhtémoc, last emperor of the bloodthirsty Aztec kingdom, dies hanged by order of Hernán Cortés.
• 1767. Charles III sanctions the expulsion of the Jesuits from all Spanish domains.
• 1797. The English seize Trinidad Island.
• 1801. Spain declares war on Portugal.
• 1829. Fierce combats take place between Colombians and Peruvians over a dispute in the Amazon Basin.
• 1922. England grants limited independence to Egypt.
• 1939. France and Great Britain recognize the Government of Francisco Franco in Spain.
• 1947. Popular protests, initiated the previous day in Taipei (Taiwan) due to the assassination of two people, are followed by serious disturbances drowned in blood by the Army, which killed tens of thousands of protesters.
• 1961. The President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, appointed Henry Kissinger as an extraordinary National Security advisor.
• 1977. The President of Uganda, Idi Amin, expels all North American citizens from the African country.
• 1980. The Referendum on the initiative of the autonomous process of Andalusia is held in the Spanish provinces of Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville,  third and last requirement for access to the autonomy of the region established in article 151 of the Spanish Constitution of 1978.
• 1986. An unknown person assassinated Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, while he was walking with his wife after leaving the cinema.
• 1993. In the United States, agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), surround Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, to arrest David Koresh, leader of the group known as "The Branch Davidians".
• 1994. Two American fighters shoot down four Serbian planes over the no-fly zone in Bosnia, in the first military mission of NATO in this conflict.
• 1997. Two heavily armed bank robbers (Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu) confront the police at the doors of a Bank of America branch, in what was called the "North Hollywood Shootout".
• 2000. In separate commando attacks, Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas kill Israeli General Erez Gerstein, supreme chief of the Zionist troops in occupation in that country.
• 2001. In El Salvador, an earthquake lasting 20 seconds was felt in various parts of the national territory, as well as in the other Central American countries.
• 2006. At least twenty people die in an attack carried out by alleged Maoist rebels in the state of Chhattisgarh, in central India, which causes injuries to almost another fifty people.
• 2013. The seat of San Pedro is headless, so the cardinal conclave is convened for the election of the new Supreme Pontiff to replace the resigning Pope Benedict XVI.
• - US soldier Bradley Manning pleads guilty to leaking classified documents.
• 2017. US President Donald Trump signs an executive order eliminating regulations that protect water resources, implemented by former President Barack Obama.
• 2018. The former first lady of Honduras Rosa Elena Bonilla, wife of former Honduran President Porfirio Lobo (2010-2014), is arrested in Tegucigalpa by agents of the Criminal Investigation Technical Agency (ATIC) for an alleged case of corruption.
• 2020. In Spain, the Legionaries of Christ, a Catholic congregation, created by the pedophile Marcial Maciel, issues a statement to apologize to the victims of sexual abuse by members of their order, estimated by them at 175 minors.
• 2021. The Syrian Government warns that the bombing perpetrated in the early hours of the morning in the Deir ez Zor areas near the border between Syria and Iraq, by the United States, presumably against pro-Iranian militias allied to Damascus, "will have consequences" and will increase tension in the region.
• 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin prohibits, by decree, transferring foreign currency abroad, while ordering companies with economic activities abroad to convert 80% of their income into rubles.  
• -The Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, denounces that 12 members of the diplomatic mission were ordered to leave the United States before March 7.

Births: February 28th Anniversaries

• 1901: Linus Pauling, American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and Peace Prize in 1962.
• 1915: Peter Brian Medawar, British scientist, Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1960.
• 1921: Pierre Clostermann, French pilot of the Second World War.
• 1924: Guarionex Aquino Reyes, Dominican baritone.
• 1930: Leon N. Cooper, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972.
• 1993: Emmelie de Forest, Danish singer winner of the Eurovision Festival 2013.

Deaths: February 28th Anniversaries

• 1613: Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet and chronicler.
• 1899: José María Cabral, former Dominican president.
• 1914: Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, Cuban politician, president of the Republic of Cuba in Arms.
• 1973: Tito Rodríguez, Puerto Rican singer, orchestra director, and musician
• 1991: Abel Quezada, Mexican writer, cartoonist, and caricaturist.
• 2006: Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959.
• 2008: Mike Smith, keyboardist of the band The Dave Clark Five.
• 2021: Jorge Oñate, Colombian musician, singer, and composer of vallenato music.