1. The Kentucky Wildcats won their first SEC men's basketball championship on February 28, 1933. The team defeated Tulane University 23-17 in the championship game.

2. On February 28, 1967, a tornado struck the town of West Liberty, Kentucky, causing significant damage to the area. The tornado was part of a larger outbreak that affected several states in the Midwest and South.

3. Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, was born on February 28, 1890, in Henryville, Indiana. Although he was not born in Kentucky, Sanders moved to the state later in life and opened his first KFC restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky.

4. On February 28, 1862, Confederate troops under the command of General John Hunt Morgan attacked and burned the town of Augusta, Kentucky. The attack was part of Morgan's raid through Kentucky during the Civil War.

5. The "Kentucky Meat Shower" occurred on February 28, 1876, when chunks of meat fell from the sky onto the property of Allen Crouch in Bath County, Kentucky. The origin of the meat remains a mystery, but it is believed to have been the result of a natural phenomenon involving vultures or other birds.