ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY FEB 28

FBI ATF RAID BRANCH DRAVIDIAN CULT 

IN WACO TEXAS

Special counsel and former U.S. Sen. John C. Danforth points to where shell casings were found at the Branch Davidian compound, in Waco, Texas, during a news conference July 21, 2000.

On February 28, 1993, federal agents attempting to serve warrants on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, were met with gunfire that left five dead. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI | License Photo

In 2019, it was announced that a Caravaggio painting discovered after being hidden in an attic for 400 years would go to auction. It was snapped up by a foreign buyer for an undisclosed sum before the auction could happen, though.

In 1885, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. was incorporated in New York as a subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.

In 1935, nylon was invented by DuPont researcher Wallace Carothers.

In 1986, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated on a street in Stockholm.

CLINTON'S HUMANITARIAN WAR APPROVED BY THE UN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE KOREAN WAR 

In 1994, NATO was involved in combat for the first time in its 45-year history when four U.S. fighter planes operating under NATO auspices shot down four Serb planes that had violated the U.N. no-fly zone in central Bosnia.

VIETNAM ERA ANTI WAR TV SERIES ABOUT THE KOREAN WAR 

In 1983, the concluding episode of the long-running television series M*A*S*H drew what was then the largest TV audience in U.S. history.

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