February 28

On This Day In History
	1986: Olof Palme assassinated Olof Palme, the internationally prominent prime minister of Sweden (1969–76, 1982–86) whose strong pacifist beliefs included opposition to the Vietnam War, was assassinated this day in Stockholm in 1986.
Olof Palme, 1985
Biography Of The Day
	Frank O. Gehry American architect and designer Frank O. Gehry—renowned worldwide for his original, sculptural, and often audacious work, including the curvaceous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain—was born in Toronto this day in 1929.
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank Gehry, completed 1997
More Events On This Day In History
1942	1942 During World War II, Japanese troops landed on the island of Java, which they occupied until 1945.
	1922 Egypt was declared an independent country.
1906	1906 American gangster Bugsy Siegel was born in Brooklyn, New York.
	1901 American chemist Linus Pauling, who received two Nobel Prizes, one for Chemistry in 1954 and another for Peace in 1962 (for efforts to control the spread of nuclear weaponry), was born.
	1827 The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad became the first steam-operated railway in the United States to be chartered as a common carrier of freight and passengers.