Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 29

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 * 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 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:   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.