What day of the week was February 28, 1953?

The day of the week February 28th, 1953 fell on was a Saturday.

Ingo Hoffmann the Brazilian race car driver was born on 28 February in 1953. As was Paul Krugman the American economist, Nobel Prize laureate , Ricky Steamboat the American wrestler .

James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (journal)|Nature (pub. April 2).