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| + | '''February 29''' in history: |
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| + | * 2004: After weeks of unrest and under pressure from foreign governments and insurgents, President Jean Bertrand Aristide fled [[Directory:Haiti|Haiti]]. |
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| + | * 1940: Hattie McDaniel won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her performance in Gone With the Wind, the first African American actor or actress to be thusly honored; these ceremonies were hosted, for the first of many times, by Bob Hope. |
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| + | * 1880: The Saint Gotthard Railway Tunnel, linking [[Directory:Switzerland|Switzerland]] and [[Directory:Italy|Italy]] through the Alps, was completed; it had taken eight years to build and cost 300 lives. |
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| + | * 1692: In Salem, [[Directory:Massachusetts|Massachusetts]], two young girls in the household of the Rev. Samuel Parris were arrested and charged with witchcraft, leading to the Salem Witch Trials. |
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