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History on the 29th of February

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29 Feb 0468 RELIGIOUS Death of Pope St. Hilary (Hilarius), 46th Bishop of Rome. During his seven-year pontificate, he reaffirmed the earlier church councils of Nicea (325), Ephesus (431) and Chalcedon (451), at which the major creeds of the Early Church were hammered out.
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29 Feb 1528 RELIGIOUS Martyrdom of Scottish reformer Patrick Hamilton, 24. Having spent time with Martin Luther and William Tyndale, Hamilton began promoting Reformation in Scotland. He was afterward arrested and burned at the stake one of the first martyrs of the Scottish Reformation.
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29 Feb 1692 RELIGIOUS The Salem Witch Trials began on this Leap Day when Tituba, the female Indian servant of the Rev. Samuel Parris, and one Sarah Goode were both arrested and accused of witchcraft.
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29 Feb 1880 RELIGIOUS American evangelist Frank Sandford, 18, was converted to a believing Christian faith. As an adult Sandford became an instrumental figure in Holiness and Pentecostal history.
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29 Feb 1932 WW2 Japanese 11th Infantry Division landed near Liuhe behind Chinese lines in Shanghai, China. 
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29 Feb 1940 WW2 Negotiations to end the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union began, but fighting continued. Soviet troops crossed the frozen Gulf of Finland and landed 15 miles west of Viipuri in an attempt to surround the city, but they were defeated by Finnish troops, capturing only Teikari Island. Elsewhere, Finnish troops wiped out the surrounded Soviet troops in the East Lemetti pocket at 0400 hours, capturing 5 field guns, 1 anti-tank gun, 71 tanks, 12 armored cars, 6 anti-aircraft machine guns, 206 trucks, and 70 machine guns. 
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29 Feb 1940 WW2 German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank Italian steamer Maria Rosa in the English Channel, killing 12. 17 people were rescued. 
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29 Feb 1940 WW2 German steamers Heidelberg and Troja left the Dutch island of Aruba in the Caribbean Sea after dark in an attempt to evade Allied patrols. Troja was intercepted 10 miles from Aruba from British cruiser Despatch; her crew set fire to the ship and abandoned her, which sank on the next day. 
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29 Feb 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler approved Nikolaus von Falkenhorst's invasion plan for Norway. 
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29 Feb 1940 WW2 RMS Queen Elizabeth set sail from Scotland, United Kingdom for New York, United States. 
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29 Feb 1940 WW2 In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California (because of the war) physicist Ernest Lawrence received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Swedish Consul General in San Francisco. 
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29 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Cod attacked a Japanese merchant ship by torpedo. 
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29 Feb 1944 WW2 Operation Brewer: US troops invaded the Admiralty Islands. 
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29 Feb 1944 WW2 USS Rock attacked a Japanese convoy en route to Truk, Caroline Islands, but was detected by destroyer Asashimo. She fired a salvo of four torpedoes at the destroyer (none hit) and dove. She was subjected to a four-hour depth charge attack that cause much damage, forcing her to return for repairs. 
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29 Feb 1944 WW2 The Japanese submarine I-37 torpedoed the merchantman SS Ascot in the Indian Ocean and then machine-gunned the 52 survivors in the water, killing 45. 
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29 Feb 1944 WW2 The US submarine Trout was reported missing, presumed sunk, whilst on patrol northwest of the Philippine Islands. 
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29 Feb 1944 WW2 Oberfeldwebel Otto Meyer and Hauptmann Fritz Schmidtmann of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing were awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. 
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29 Feb 1944 WW2 Ships of US Navy Destroyer Squadron 22 gathered off Praed Point about 6.5 miles away from Rabaul, New Britain just before midnight at the end of this date. 
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29 Feb 1944 WW2 The Kempeitai staff at Rabaul, New Britain discussed moving its headquarters from the center of town to a safer location due to US bombing. 
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29 Feb 1944 WW2 Seventy "Comfort Girls", captive women forced into prostitution by the Japanese, were machine gunned on the island of Truk in the Caroline Islands as the Japanese tried to destroy evidence before the American invasion arrived. 
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29 Feb 1944 WW2 The third major German offensive was launched at Anzio, Italy, which would again fail to dislodge the Allies. 
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29 Feb 1944 WW2 Nachi refueled from oiler Teiyo Maru in Mutsu Bay, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. 
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29 Feb 1948 RELIGIOUS American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Redemption marks the new beginning of life. Men and women do not live at all until they have life eternal.'
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