Thursday, February 28, 2013

This was 59th day of the year and 306 days remained in the year.


February 28 Birthdays

Linus Pauling
1901–1994, American Chemist.

Michel de Montaigne
essayist (1533)

 Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
physicist and naturalist (1683)

 Mary Lyon
educator (1797)

 Ben Hecht
writer (1894)

 Bugsy Siegel
mobster (1906)

 Zero Mostel
actor (1915)

 Mario Andretti
auto racing driver (1940)

February 28 in History

1953

James Watson and Francis Crick described their theory that two DNA strands were coiled in a double helix.

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