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Events on the 29th of February in history

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29 Feb 0468 St Hilary ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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29 Feb 1504 Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
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29 Feb 1504 Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
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29 Feb 1644 Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage began.
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29 Feb 1692 Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem
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29 Feb 1696 English ex-premier Earl Danby accused of corruption
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29 Feb 1704 French and Indians attack Deerfield, Mass, kill 50, abduct 100
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29 Feb 1704 Queen Anne's War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
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29 Feb 1712 February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style.
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29 Feb 1720 Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on 24 March.
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29 Feb 1720 Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns
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29 Feb 1752 King Alaungpaya founds Konbaung Dynasty, the last dynasty of Burmese monarchy.
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29 Feb 1768 Polish nobles formed Bar Confederation.
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29 Feb 1784 Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille
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29 Feb 1796 The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
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29 Feb 1796 Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England
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29 Feb 1816 Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna
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29 Feb 1832 Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil
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29 Feb 1836 Giacomo Meyerbeers opera "Les Huguenots, " premieres in Paris
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29 Feb 1836 Giacomo Meyerbeer's (Jakob Liebmann Beer) opera "Les Huguenots" premieres in Paris (Th
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29 Feb 1848 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland
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29 Feb 1856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease
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29 Feb 1864 American Civil War: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid fails – plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
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29 Feb 1868 1st British government of Disraeli forms
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29 Feb 1880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland and Italy completed
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29 Feb 1892 St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
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29 Feb 1892 Britain & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea
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29 Feb 1904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal
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29 Feb 1908 Dutch scientists produce solid helium
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29 Feb 1916 Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.
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29 Feb 1920 Czechoslovak National assembly adopted the Constitution.
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29 Feb 1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland
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29 Feb 1936 February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
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29 Feb 1936 Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
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29 Feb 1936 FDR signs 2nd neutrality act
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29 Feb 1940 "Gone with the Wind, " wins 8 Oscars
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29 Feb 1940 Frederic from G&S "Pirates of Penzance" finally released by pirate
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29 Feb 1940 In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
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29 Feb 1940 Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
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29 Feb 1940 For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
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29 Feb 1940 "Gone with the Wind" wins 8 Oscars
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29 Feb 1940 45 U boats sunk this month (170,000 ton)
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29 Feb 1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar
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29 Feb 1944 World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.
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29 Feb 1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death
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29 Feb 1944 US troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands
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29 Feb 1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died
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29 Feb 1952 The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
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29 Feb 1952 Dick Button wins his 5th consecutive world figure skating title
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29 Feb 1952 Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood & Demmy Great Britain
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29 Feb 1952 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk & Paul Falk of Germany
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29 Feb 1952 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Jacqueline du Bief of France
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29 Feb 1952 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA
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29 Feb 1956 Islamic Republic forms in Pakistan
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29 Feb 1956 Islamic Republic established in Pakistan
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29 Feb 1956 President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term
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29 Feb 1960 JFK makes "missile gap" the presidential campaign issue
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29 Feb 1960 An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country.
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29 Feb 1960 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
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29 Feb 1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds
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29 Feb 1960 KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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29 Feb 1964 "Rugantino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 28 performances
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29 Feb 1964 In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds).
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29 Feb 1964 Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 meters
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29 Feb 1964 LBJ reveals US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter
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29 Feb 1964 North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime
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29 Feb 1968 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
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29 Feb 1968 Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy
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29 Feb 1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) reports against racism & demands aid given to blacks
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29 Feb 1968 Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres
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29 Feb 1968 US end regular flights with nuclear bombs
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29 Feb 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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29 Feb 1972 Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to the Republican Party
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29 Feb 1972 Vietnam War: Vietnamization – South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.
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29 Feb 1972 Hank Aaron becomes 1st baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year
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29 Feb 1980 Gordie Howe of the then Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
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29 Feb 1980 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals
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29 Feb 1980 Michael Bracey ends 59 hours 55 minutes trapped in an elevator, England
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29 Feb 1984 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down
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29 Feb 1988 KWK-FM in St. Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG
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29 Feb 1988 New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs
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29 Feb 1988 Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the Canadian House of Commons to come out as gay.
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29 Feb 1988 South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
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29 Feb 1988 Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WWII deportations
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29 Feb 1988 NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs
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29 Feb 1988 Mark Greatbatch scores 107 vs England on Test Cricket debut
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29 Feb 1992 First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.
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29 Feb 1992 The Professional Spring Football League begins
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29 Feb 1992 Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
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29 Feb 1996 Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes, all 123 passengers and crew died.
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29 Feb 1996 Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup
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29 Feb 1996 Soyuz TM-23, lands
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29 Feb 2004 Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup.
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29 Feb 2012 Tokyo Skytree construction completed. Now it is the tallest tower in the world, 634 meters high, and second tallest (man-made) structure on Earth, next to Burj Khalifa.
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