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February 28 | |
| 1894 | Birth date of Ben Hecht, writer. (died 4/18/64) |
| 1942 | Violence breaks out in Detroit, Michigan when whites battle black war-production workers to prevent them from occupying the federally-constructed Sojourner Truth Homes, a public housing project built for black defense workers. |