On February 16, Steele took his seat in Parliament.

On February 17, Russell and Cook were sent to the Pena Flor community on the Vermejo to see about renting out ranches the company had purchased.

On these bonds, price rises since February 21 easily outnumber price declines.

On February 27, 1860, New York party leaders invited Lincoln to give a speech at Cooper Union to a group of powerful Republicans.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D. C., which was placed under substantial military guard.

On February 7, 1837, he fought in a duel with Texas Brig.

On February 6, 1862, Union Navy gunboats quickly reduced the defenses of ill-sited Fort Henry, inflicting 21 casualties on the small remaining Confederate force.

On 22 February 1945, " speaking from London, Agatha Christie introduced the initial broadcast of the Poirot series via shortwave.

On 18 February a " confession " was extorted from Alexei which implicated most of his friends, and he then publicly renounced the succession to the throne in favour of the baby grand-duke Peter Petrovich.

On 22 February 896, Formosus led the king into the church, anointed and crowned him, and saluted him as Augustus.

On 6 February 1890, an underground explosion at Llanerch Colliery killed 176.

On April 22, 1971, syndicated columnist Jack Anderson reported allegations that Capp made indecent advances to four female students when he was invited to speak at the University of Alabama in February 1968.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

On February 15, 1993, Clinton made his first address to the nation, announcing his plan to raise taxes to cap the budget deficit.

On February 11, 2010, he was rushed to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City after complaining of chest pains, and had two coronary stents implanted in his heart.

On February 8, 2010, Edward Sazonov, Physical Activity Innovations LLC, was awarded the title of Bluetooth Innovator of the Year for 2009.

On February 8, 2006, Borland announced the divestiture of their IDE division, including Delphi, JBuilder, and InterBase.

On 9 February 1953, Bedlington Grammar School pupil Charlton was spotted playing for East Northumberland schools by Manchester United chief scout Joe Armstrong.

On February 4, the Orioles signed free agent Vladimir Guerrero to be the team's designated hitter.

On February 5, 2002, George W. Bush visited the RODS laboratory and used it as a model for a $ 300 million spending proposal to equip all 50 states with biosurveillance systems.

On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history.

On February 14, 1899 the name " Broadway " was extended to the entire Broadway / Bloomingdale / Boulevard road.

On February 18, 1964, J. Armand Bombardier died of cancer at age 56.

On 15 February 2007, the first issue of a monthly comic entitled BeanoMAX was published.

On the May 2012 FIDE rating list for women, Krush has a FIDE rating of 2457, 28th best among active female players, and second best among active American female players.

On these days officials were prohibited from various activities and common men were forbidden to " make a wish ", and at least the 28th was known as a " rest-day ".

On 28th February 1985, Chernenko appeared once more on television to receive parliamentary credentials and read out a brief statement on his electoral victory: the election campaign is over and now it is time to carry out the tasks set for us by the voters and the Communists who have spoken out.

On 6 November, the U. S. 12th Infantry Regiment was detached from the U. S. 4th Division and sent to reinforce the 28th Division.

* On October 28th, 2011 the Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas announced it was naming a new species of the dinosaur genus Pachyrhinosaurus after the Perot family.

On September 28th, ( October 10th, new style ) 1806, Aleksandr I, Emperor of Russia made a notation on the design submitted to him of a new flag for the Russian-American Company ; " So be it ", and added his cypher, thereby approving the first flag in Russia's history to be used by an Imperial chartered company.

* On May 28th, 2012, Grammy-nominated jazz singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Melody Gardot released her third studio album, " The Absence ".

On the 28th of March 2012, Vilsack came out publicly defending the use of " lean finely textured beef " added in ground beef.

On the 28th Weitzel entered and occupied Thibodeaux, Louisiana, a few miles below Labadieville, and on the 29th communication was opened with New Orleans by means of the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad.

On Jun 28th, 1866, the town was abandoned by the original settlers.

On the 28th, the offensive was stopped and the British troops were ordered to lay wire and dig in.

On the 28th, over 16, 000 rounds were fired into the wood.

On 28th September 2012 he returned for another appearance.

On February 28th, after a 17 day voyage, Luciano's ship arrived in Naples.

On 13 June 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made a personal visit to dedicate the base in memory of Brig Gen Richard E. Ellsworth, commander of the 28th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, who lost his life in that mishap.

On 1 June 1992, as part of the first major reorganization since the creation of USAF, the Air Force inactivated Strategic Air Command and assigned Ellsworth's organizations ( including a renamed 28th Bomb Wing ( 28 BW )) to the newly activated Air Combat Command ( ACC ).

On the 28th Rundstedt authorised Kleist to withdraw from Rostov and establish a front on the Mius, 70 km to the west.

On 25 January 1923 the three squadrons were redesignated, respectively, the 2nd Observation, 3rd Pursuit, and 28th Bombardment Squadrons.

On 8 December 2009, Jimmy Buffett released his 28th studio album entitled Buffet Hotel.

On January 22, 1929, So-on retired as abbot of Zoun-in and installed Shunryu as its 28th abbot.

On April 3, 2006, Green was honored with the ASCAP Crescendo Award at the 28th annual ASCAP Christian Music Awards presentation dinner.

On the 28th of November, Oates accused her of high treason, and the Commons passed an address for her removal and that of all the Roman Catholics from Whitehall.

On the 28th of June 1929 the Venezuelan rebel leader Rafael Simon Urbina attacked Curaçao and took several hostages amongst whom was the governor L. A. Fruytier and the garrisoncommander Borren.

On June 28th ( the date most widely taken as the date of the first predicted earthquake ), it was reported that: " the population of Lima passed a quiet Sunday ".