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Events

• 1504 (522 years ago) Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies.
• 1940 (86 years ago) In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's consul general in San Francisco.
• 1960 (66 years ago) The 5.7 Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
• 1968 (58 years ago) Aeroflot Flight 15 crashes Irkutsk Oblast, Soviet Union, due to a loss of control. Eighty-three of the 84 occupants onboard die. The exact cause of the accident is unknown.
• 2004 (22 years ago) Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as president of Haiti following a coup.
• 2012 (14 years ago) North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.
• 2020 (6 years ago) The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.
• 2020 (6 years ago) Luxembourg becomes the first country in the world to render public transport free nationwide.

Births

• 1468 (558 years ago) Pope Paul III,
• 1792 (234 years ago) Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer (died 1868)
• 1860 (166 years ago) Herman Hollerith, American statistician and businessman, co-founder of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (died 1929)
• 1896 (130 years ago) Morarji Desai, Indian civil servant and politician, fourth Prime Minister of India (died 1995)
• 1940 (86 years ago) Bartholomew I, current Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
• 1972 (54 years ago) Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of Spain
• 1988 (38 years ago) Benedikt Höwedes, German footballer
• 2000 (26 years ago) Ferran Torres, Spanish footballer

Deaths

• 468 (1558 years ago) Pope Hilarius,
• 1868 (158 years ago) Ludwig I of Bavaria,
• 1944 (82 years ago) Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish lawyer, judge and politician, 3rd President of Finland (born 1861)
• 1956 (70 years ago) Elpidio Quirino, Filipino lawyer and politician, 6th President of the Philippines (born 1890)
• 1980 (46 years ago) Yigal Allon, Israeli general and politician, Prime Minister of Israel (born 1918)
• 2012 (14 years ago) Davy Jones, English singer, guitarist and actor (born 1945)
• 2024 (2 years ago) Brian Mulroney, 18th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1939)
• 2024 (2 years ago) Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 2nd President of Tanzania and 3rd President of Zanzibar (born 1925)

All 239 events, births and deaths of February 29