TIME magazine begins publishing
2 March 1943
United States and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships in what is known as the Battle of the Bismarck Sea
28 February 2005
A suicide bombing at a police recruiting center in Al Hillah, Iraq result in the killing of 127.
27 February 2004
The John Jay Report is released which details the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States.
24 February 1989
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.
23 February 2005
The French law on colonialism is passed, that requires teachers to teach the “positive values of colonialism”. It is repealed at the beginning of 2006.