THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Today is Thursday, February 28, the 59th day of 2013. There are 306 days left in the year.

1066 ― Westminster Abbey opens

1646 ― Roger Scott was tried in Massachusetts for sleeping in church

1692 ― Salem witch hunt begins

1749 ― First edition of Henry Fielding’s “Tom Jones” published

1933 ― Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)

1935 ― Nylon discovered by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers

1943 ― “Porgy & Bess” opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan

1947 ― Anti-Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan

1986 ― European Economic Community sign “Special Act” for Europe free trade

1991 ― “Les Miserables” opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam