Four federal agents killed in Waco siege
1993 - Federal agents attempting to serve search warrants on a heavily armed religious camp in Waco, Texas, were ambushed by raging gunfire that left four of them dead and 15 others injured, several seriously. About 45 minutes after the automatic weapons fire began, a ceasefire was negotiated by surviving agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the cult’s leader David Koresh, a 33-year-old guitarist and ninth-grade dropout with pretensions to messianic powers. Shortly after nightfall, however, gunfire blazed anew as three members of the cult, known as the Branch Davidians, tried to storm an ATF observation post outside the fortified yet primitive religious compound. Up to 100 people were believed to remain inside.
February 28
1825 - Britain and Russia sign treaty covering respective rights in Pacific Ocean area.
1861 - The Territory of Colorado is organised.
1877 - Turkey and Serbia sign peace treaty.
1893 - American chemist Edward Acheson is granted a US patent for his invention of carborundum (silicon carbide), an abrasive.
1922 - English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles.
1928 - Indian physicist C. V. Raman discovers Raman scattering.
1948 - The last British Army regiment leaves India.
1974 - US and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after a seven-year breach.
1982 - UAE University’s first convocation is held in Al Ain.
1986 - Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated in Stockholm.
1991 - Allies win the Gulf War after a six-week blitz that demolishes the Iraqi army.
1993 - A bomb blast in a gift shop rips through Zamboanga airport, Philippines, injuring 23 people.
1994 - US jets down four Serb warplanes in Bosnia, Nato’s first air attack in the war.
1995 - The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends with the signing of the Montevideo Declaration
1997 - A 6.1-magnitude earthquake kills 965 people in Azerbaijan, Iran and Pakistan.
2002 - Martial law is imposed in Madagascar.
2005 - Lebanese Prime Minister Omar Karami announces the resignation of his pro-Syrian government.
2006 - EFG Hermes first to join Dubai International Financial Exchange as broker.
2007 - Two Picasso paintings worth nearly $66 million (Dh242 million) are stolen from the artist’s granddaughter’s house in Paris.
2008 - Ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra returns from exile to Bangkok.
2011 - A travel ban is imposed on former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his family.
2015 - Turkish literary giant Yasar Kermal dies at the age of 92.
2017 - Russia, China veto UN resolution on Syria sanctions.
