On this day: February 28
POSTED: 07:54 PM PST Feb 26, 2013
UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Feb 27, 2013
Nylon is invented, the "M*A*S*H" finale draws a record audience, Michael Jackson wins a record eight Grammys, the Gulf War ends, and the Branch Davidian standoff begins, all on this day.
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1986: Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and his wife Lisbet Palme are attacked by an unidentified assassin in Stockholm. Palme is shot in the back at close range and would die just past midnight the following day while his wife suffered a minor injury when a bullet grazed her back. Although more than 130 people have confessed to the murder, the case remains unsolved, and a number of theories as to who carried out the murder have been proposed.
