Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 28

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This is a list of selected February 28 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Teachers' Day in the Arab world; refimprove
870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople, the eighth Catholic Ecumenical Council, ended. refimprove
1838Lower Canada Rebellion: Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaimed the independence of Lower Canada. short, needs more footnotes
1844 – A gun on USS Princeton exploded while the warship cruised on the Potomac River, killing six people and injuring twenty others. Too much uncited
1900Second Boer War: The 118-day Siege of Ladysmith in South Africa was lifted after British forces finally broke through the Boer positions. refimprove
1935 – Working with polyamides to developing a new viable fiber for the chemical company DuPont, American chemist Wallace Carothers invented nylon. both: unreferenced section
1952Vincent Massey was sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada. refimprove section
1972 – U.S. president Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China concluded after the two countries issued the Shanghai Communiqué the previous day. lots of CN tags (10)
1983The final episode of the television series M*A*S*H was broadcast in the United States, and became the most-watched television program in history. refimprove section
1986 – Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was assassinated by a lone gunman in Stockholm while walking home from a cinema with his wife. refimprove
1997 – In what has been has viewed as a "postmodern coup", the Turkish Military leadership issued a memorandum that eventually precipitated the retirement of Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan. unreferenced section
Henry James |d|1916| lots of CN tags (10)
Marah Halim Harahap |b|1921 unreferenced section

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February 28: Kalevala Day / Finnish Culture Day

The first team of S.L. Benfica
The first team of S.L. Benfica
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