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29 February, 2004
Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as President of Haiti following popular rebel uprising.
29 February, 2000
Six year old Dedrick Owens shoots and kills Kayla Rolland, also six years old, at Theo J. Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Michigan.
29 February, 1996
Novelist Joan Collins awarded US $1 million from Random House for breach of contract.
29 February, 1996
A Peruvian Boeing 737 crashes in the Andes, killing 123 people.
29 February, 1988
South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town
29 February, 1984
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he will retire as soon as the Liberals can elect another leader.
29 February, 1972
Vietnam War: Vietnamization - South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.
29 February, 1972
Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract.
29 February, 1964
In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds).
29 February, 1960
An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country.
29 February, 1956
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces to the nation that he is running for a second term.
29 February, 1952
The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
29 February, 1944
World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in the American General Douglas MacArthur-led Operation Brewer.
29 February, 1940
For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
29 February, 1940
Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations
29 February, 1940
In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives his 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from the Swedens Consul General in San Francisco.
29 February, 1936
Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
29 February, 1932
TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States.
29 February, 1916
Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.
29 February, 1892
St. Petersburg, Florida incorporated.
29 February, 1864
American Civil War: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid fails - Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
29 February, 1720
Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I.
29 February, 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.
29 February, 1704
Queen Annes War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 100 men, women, and children.
29 February, 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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