February 29 Holidays

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2012 — Tokyo Skytree construction completed. It is, as of 2017, the tallest tower in the world, 634 meters high, and second tallest (man-made)... ↗
• 2008 — The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence decides to withdraw Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan "immediately" after a leak led to... ↗
• 2008 — Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claimed to have lived with a... ↗
• 2004 — Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup. ↗
• 2000 — Second Chechen War: Eighty-four Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1996 — Nelson Asofa-Solomona, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1996 — Claudia Williams, New Zealand tennis player
• 1992 — Sean Abbott, Australian cricketer
• 1992 — Ben Hampton, Australian rugby league player
• 1992 — Perry Kitchen, American soccer player