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29 Feb 2020
Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary election.
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29 Feb 2012
The world's tallest tower is completed.
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29 Feb 2008
The UK's Prince Harry was withdrawn from a military tour of Afghanistan.
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29 Feb 2004
Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti.
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29 Feb 1996
A Boeing 737 crashes in the Andes, killing all 123 on board.
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29 Feb 1996
The longest siege of a capital city in modern history, the siege of Sarajevo, officially ended.
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29 Feb 1988
Svend Robinson became the first Canadian MP to come out of the closet publicly.
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29 Feb 1960
The first Playboy Club opened in Chicago.
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29 Feb 1960
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, wiped out a third of the city's population.
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29 Feb 1960
The Family Circus Comic Strip by Bill Keane debuted.
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29 Feb 1944
Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
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29 Feb 1940
Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for her role in 'Gone With the Wind,' making her the first African American woman to win an Oscar.
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29 Feb 1908
A Dutch scientist named Heike Kamerlingh Onnes announced he was able to create solid helium.
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29 Feb 1832
Charles Darwin explored Bahia, San Salvador, Brazil, and fell in love with its variety of plants, flowers, animals & insects.
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29 Feb 1692
The first warrants were issued to arrest three women accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, US.
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29 Feb 1504
A lunar eclipse saved explorer Christopher Columbus's life.
