Today's selected anniversaries: 28th February 2023

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Today's selected anniversaries: 28th February 2023

1897:

Ranavalona III, the last sovereign ruler of the Kingdom of Madagascar, was deposed by French military forces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranavalona_III

1928:

Indian physicist C. V. Raman and his colleagues discovered what is now known as Raman scattering, for which he later became the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman

1947:

Nationalist soldiers fired on protesters in Taipei (crowd pictured), triggering widespread uprisings and the violent suppression in the Taiwanese White Terror.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28_incident

1975:

A London Underground train failed to stop at the terminal Moorgate station, crashing and causing the deaths of 43 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorgate_tube_crash

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