History for February 28 - On-This-Day.com
Linus Pauling 1901 - Nobel prize for chemistry in 1954, Nobel peace prize winner in 1962, Earl Scheib 1907, Charles Durning 1923 - Actor ("Spy Hard", "Dick Tracy", "The Hindenburg")
Chris Kraft 1924 - NASA flight director and voice of Mission Control for all Mercury and many Gemini missions, Svetlana Allilueva 1926 - Author, daughter of Russian leader Joseph Stalin, Mario Andretti 1940 - Auto racer, twin of Aldo Andretti
1854 - The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group.
1993 - U.S. Federal agents raided the compound of an armed religious cult in Waco, TX. The ATF had planned to arrest the leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, on federal firearms charges. Four agents and six Davidians were killed and a 51-day standoff followed.
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