28 February

Michel de Montaigne
28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592
French essayist who developed the essay as a literary genre. » more

Jost Bürgi
28 February 1552 – 31 January 1632
Swiss clockmaker who developed major improvements to the accuracy of mechanical clocks. » more

Guillaume Delisle
28 February 1675 – 25 January 1726
French cartographer who mapped the interior of (now) U.S.A. in 1718 – ‘Carte de la Louisiane et du cours du Mississippi’. » more

John Tenniel
28 February 1820 – 25 February 1914
English artist who illustrated ‘Alice in Wonderland’. » more (scroll down)

Charles Blondin
28 February 1824 – 19 February 1897
French Tightrope walker and the first to cross the Niagra Falls by tightrope. » more

Joseph Mering
28 February 1849 – 5 January 1908
German scientist whose research led to the discovery of Insulin. » more

Linus Pauling
28 February 1901 – 19 August 1994
American scientist who campaigned for an end to Nuclear tests. Nobel laureate. » more

Mario Andretti
28 February 1940
Italian Formula 1 racing car driver. » more

Today’s Quote
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
 … Oprah Winfrey

Today’s No. 1 Hit
1989 – Lost in Your Eyes by Debbie Gibson.

Today’s events
28 February 1885 – American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) established.
28 February 1935 – Wallace Carothers invents Nylon, while working for DuPont in America.
28 February 1953 – The chemical structure of DNA revealed privately to colleagues by James D. Watson and Francis Crick, prior to publication.
28 February 1954 – Standardised colour television sets go on sale in America (using NTSC system).
28 February 1983 – M*A*S*H is broadcast for the last time in America.