Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 28

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 * 202 BC – Rebel leader Liu Bang declared himself Emperor Gaozu of Han after overthrowing the Qin dynasty, the first imperial dynasty of China.
 * 1638 – The National Covenant was formally adopted in opposition to proposed reforms to the Church of Scotland by King Charles I.
 * 1893 – USS Indiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, was launched.
 * 1897 – Ranavalona III, the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by French military forces.
 * 1928 – Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his colleagues discovered what is now known as Raman scattering, for which he later became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
 * 1947 – Nationalist soldiers fired on protesters in Taipei (crowd pictured), triggering widespread uprisings and violent suppression in the White Terror.
 * 1963 – Chicago alderman Benjamin F. Lewis was murdered in his office by unknown assailants two days after having been reelected.
 * 1972 – Japanese police stormed a mountain lodge near Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, to end a ten-day siege by members of the paramilitary group United Red Army.
 * 1975 – A London Underground train failed to stop at the terminal Moorgate station, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people.
 * 1985 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launched a mortar attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary station in Newry, Northern Ireland, killing nine people.
 * 1997 – GRB 970228, a highly luminous 80-second flash of gamma rays, was detected on Earth, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
 * 1997 – Two heavily armed bank robbers exchanged gunfire with officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood, in one of the most intense gun battles in American police history.
 * 2001 – A high-speed train crash occurred near Selby in North Yorkshire, England, killing 10 and injuring 82.
 * 2002 – During a period of religious violence in Gujarat, India, mobs of Hindus attacked Muslims in Naroda Patiya and in Chamanpura, resulting in 166 deaths.
 * 2013 – Benedict XVI became the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign from the papacy.
 * 2021 – Bus drivers in Greater Manchester began an eleven-week strike, one of the longest in British transportation history.
 * Born/died this day: | Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway |b|1261| Michel de Montaigne |b|1533|  Cornelius Gemma |b|1535| Martin Bucer |d|1551| Guillaume Delisle |b|1675| Thomas Cushing |d|1788| Alfred von Schlieffen |b|1833|Pierre Fatou |b|1878| Sjafruddin Prawiranegara |b|1911|  Charles Bassett and Elliot See |d|1966| Neville Cardus |d|1975| Anna Muzychuk|b|1990| Koesbini |d|1991 |Yaşar Kemal |d|2015