On this dayFebruary 28: Kalevala Day / Finnish Culture Day
1874 – In one of the longest cases ever heard in an English court, the claimant in the Tichborne case was convicted of perjury for attempting to assume the identity of the missing heir to the Tichborne baronetcy.
1897 – Ranavalona III (pictured), the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by French military forces.
1904 – The most successful football club in Portugal, S.L. Benfica, was founded in Lisbon as Sport Lisboa.
1963 – Chicago alderman Benjamin F. Lewis was murdered in his office by unknown assailants two days after having been reelected.
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.
Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (b. 1261) · Alfred von Schlieffen (b. 1833) · Charles Bassett and Elliot See (d. 1966)
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