Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 29

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  Hattie McDaniel
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  First wave lands on Los Negros
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  Playboy Bunny
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  Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden
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  Tokyo Skytree
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  Template:Nowrap Augustus of Poland

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Blurb	Reason
Leap day (Gregorian calendar)	refimprove
1720 – Unable to establish a joint sovereignty similar to Great Britain's William and Mary, Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicated in favour of her husband, who became [[Frederick I of Sweden|Template:Nowrap]].	refimprove/unreferenced sections
1752 – Alaungpaya, a village chief in Upper Burma, founded the Konbaung Dynasty; by the time of his death, he had unified all of Myanmar, and driven out the French and the British.	unreferenced section
1768 – A group of Polish nobles established the Bar Confederation to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against Russian influence and King [[Stanisław August Poniatowski|Template:Nowrap Augustus]] (portrait shown).	Uncited section
1940 – At the 12th Academy Awards, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to be awarded an Oscar, winning Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind.	refimprove section
1960 – Playboy Enterprises founder Hugh Hefner opened his first Playboy Club in Chicago, featuring the first service uniform registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.	date not cited
1996 – A court ruled that book publisher Random House owed British actress and author Joan Collins over Template:Nowrap for breach of contract over an unpublished manuscript.	refimprove section
Ina Coolbrith |d|1928|	Deathday not cited
Pedro Sánchez |b|1972|	Birthday not cited

Eligible

• 1980 – La Bougie du Sapeur, a humorous French newspaper that is published only on leap days, printed its first issue.
• 1996 – In the deadliest aviation accident in Peruvian history, [[Faucett Flight 251|Faucett Template:Nowrap]] crashed on approach to Rodríguez Ballón International Airport, killing all 123 people aboard.
• 2008 – Belgian author Misha Defonseca admitted that her bestselling memoir about surviving the Holocaust was in fact a literary forgery.
• Born/died: Gioachino Rossini |b|1792| Emmeline B. Wells |b|1928|

February 29: Beginning of the Nineteen-Day Fast (Baháʼí Faith, 2024)

• 1704 – Queen Anne's War: French and Native American forces raided the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing more than 50 colonists.
• 1944 – World War II: The Admiralty Islands campaign began when American forces assaulted Los Negros Island, the third largest of the Admiralty Islands.
• 1960 – The deadliest earthquake in Moroccan history (damaged building pictured) struck the city of Agadir, killing at least 12,000 people.
• 2004 – Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was overthrown following popular rebel uprising.
• 2012 – Construction of Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower and third-tallest structure, was completed.