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What Happened on February 29th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	Joe Biden wins the South Carolina primary election.
2020	South Korea reports a record total of 3,150 confirmed cases of COVID-19 during the pandemic.
2020	During a demonstration, pro-government colectivos shoot at disputed President and Speaker of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó and his supporters in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, leaving five injured.[37]
2020	The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.
2016	At least 40 people are killed and 58 others wounded following a suicide bombing by ISIL at a Shi'ite funeral in the city of Miqdadiyah, Diyala.
2012	North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.
2008	The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence withdraws Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan after news of his deployment is leaked to foreign media.
2008	Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
2004	Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as president of Haiti following a coup.
2000	Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War.
1996	Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew are killed.
1996	The Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
1992	First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.
1988	South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
1988	Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
1984	Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
1980	Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
1972	South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam as part of Nixon's Vietnamization policy in the Vietnam War.
1960	The 5.7 Mw  Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
1944	The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by American general Douglas MacArthur, in World War II.
1940	For her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
1940	Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
1940	In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's consul general in San Francisco.
1936	The February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
1920	The Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
1916	Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1916	In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
1912	The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
1892	St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
1796	The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
1768	Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.
1720	Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on March 24.
1712	February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar.
1704	In Queen Anne's War, French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
1644	Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage begins as he leaves Batavia in command of three ships.[3]
1504	Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies.

Famous People Born on February 29

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Year	Name
1976	Vonteego Cummings, American basketball player
1976	Katalin Kovács, Hungarian sprint kayaker
1952	Tim Powers, American author and educator
1896	William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1975)
1948	Manoel Maria, Brazilian footballer
1944	Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Italian author and illustrator
1852	Prince George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg (d. 1912)
1968	Eugene Volokh, Ukrainian-American lawyer and educator
1924	David Beattie, New Zealand judge and politician, 14th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 2001)
1812	James Milne Wilson, Scottish-Australian soldier and politician, eighth Premier of Tasmania (d. February 29, 1880)

Famous People Deaths On February 29

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Date	Name
468	Pope Hilarius
1744	John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-English physicist and philosopher (b. 1683)
2004	Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna (b. 1923)
1992	Ruth Pitter, English poet and author (b. 1897)
1856	Auguste Chapdelaine, French Christian missionary (b. 1814)
1880	James Milne Wilson, Scottish-Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Tasmania (b. February 29, 1812)
1712	Johann Conrad Peyer, Swiss anatomist (b. 1653)
1904	Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, French astronomer (b. 1845)
1972	Tom Davies, American football player and coach (b. 1896)
1960	Melvin Purvis, American police officer and FBI agent (b. 1903)