About the day » Monday February 28, 1898Calender converter

• Adrianus Looijen, Loosduinen († 1961)
• Adrianus Hopmans, Dussen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adriana Petronella Jacoba van Helden, rotterdam (zuid holland) († 1899)
• Adolf Johannes Klijnhout, Arnhem, Nederland († 1982)
• Adrianus Pieter Otto, Utrecht
• Albertje Kuil, Veendam († 1899)
• Agnes "Aggie" McCrystal, Drumduff, Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• Adriaan Kornelis SANGSTER, Rotterdam († 1955)
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• Abraham Vermeij, 's Gravenhage

• Anne Coombe (74), Barossa, South Australia, Australia
• Amand Dereeper (63), Koekelare,8680,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Aldert Wal, van der (77), Sneek
• Antje Overboom (64), Wognum, Medemblik, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Attje Jans Terpstra (80), Jelsum
• Alida Gerritsen (52), Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
• Adrianus Johannes van Vliet (83), Pijnacker, Nederland
• ANNA CECILIA PHILOMINA STIJNEN (0), Stein
• Adrianus Hendrikus Kwant (23), Delft Nederland
• Adrianus Henricus Kwant (23), Delft,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1894 » Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1964)
• 1895 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright and director († 1974)
• 1896 » Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1898 » Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish footballer († 1969)
• 1900 » Wolf Hirth, German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth († 1959)
• 1901 » Linus Pauling, American chemist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1994)
• 1903 » Vincente Minnelli, American director and screenwriter († 1986)
• 1906 » Bugsy Siegel, American gangster († 1947)
• 1907 » Milton Caniff, American cartoonist († 1988)
• 1908 » Billie Bird, American actress († 2002)

• 1857 » André Dumont, Belgian geologist and academic (b. 1809)
• 1869 » Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)
• 1879 » Hortense Allart, Italian-French author (b. 1801)
• 1891 » George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
• 1916 » Henry James, American novelist, short writer, and critic (b. 1843)
• 1925 » Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
• 1929 » Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
• 1932 » Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
• 1935 » Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
• 1936 » Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
• June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
• August 12 » The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
• September 2 » Battle of Omdurman: British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen and establish British dominance in Sudan.
• September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
• December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.

The temperature on February 28, 1898 was about 2.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.