SomeFacts | February 29

On this day - February 29

888 — Odo, count of Paris, is crowned king of West Francia (France) ...

1504 — Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse ...

1644 — Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage begins as he leaves ...

1704 — In Queen Anne's War, French forces and Native Americans ...

1712 — February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to ...

1720 — Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her ...

1768 — Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.

1796 — The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain ...

1892 — St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.

1908 — James Madison University is founded at Harrisonburg, Virginia, ...

1912 — The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.

1916 — In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill ...

1916 — Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.

1920 — The Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.

1936 — The February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.

1940 — In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest ...

1940 — Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.

1940 — For her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie ...

1944 — The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by ...

1960 — The 5.7 Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a ...

1964 — British Eagle International Airlines Flight 802/6 crashes into ...

1968 — Aeroflot Flight 15 crashes Irkutsk Oblast, Soviet Union, due ...

1972 — South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from South ...

1980 — Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he ...

1984 — Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party ...

1988 — Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of ...

1988 — South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with ...

1992 — A referendum is begun in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the ...

1996 — The Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.

1996 — Faucett Perú Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 ...

2000 — Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually ...

2004 — Angelina Jolie wears a White Marc Bouwer dress to the 76th ...

2004 — Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as president of Haiti ...

2008 — Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A ...

2008 — The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence withdraws Prince ...

2012 — North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear ...

2016 — In the Miqdadiyah bombing: at least 40 people are killed and ...

2020 — Luxembourg becomes the first country in the world to render ...

2020 — Muhyiddin Yassin is appointed as the 8th Prime Minister of ...

2020 — The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for ...

2020 — During a demonstration, pro-government colectivos shoot at ...

2024 — The Flour Massacre took place in the Gaza Strip: Israeli ...