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Events on February 29

• 1712 In Sweden, February 30 follows February 29 to adjust the Swedish calendar back to the Julian calendar.
• 1880 The breakthrough occurs at the Gotthard Tunnel, built for railway traffic through the Gotthard massif in the Swiss Alps.
• 1920 Reichswehr Minister Gustav Noske dissolves the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt and the Freikorps Loewenfeld. The Kapp Putsch against the Weimar Republic develops from this measure.
• 1924 Paul Samson-Körner becomes German champion in heavyweight boxing against Hans Breitensträter by knockout in the 3rd round.
• 1940 At the Academy Awards, Gone with the Wind is the most successful film with ten Academy Awards, with Hattie McDaniel, honored for her portrayal of Mammy, becoming the first African American woman to receive an Oscar statuette.
• 1960 An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 in Agadir, Morocco, claims 10,000 to 15,000 lives.
• 1972 In protest against the New Ostpolitik of the social-liberal coalition, Bundestag member Herbert Hupka, president of the Landsmannschaft Schlesien, resigns from the SPD parliamentary group.
• 1980 The Berlin International Film Festival, the first under the direction of Moritz de Hadeln, ends.
• 1996 After 1,425 days, the siege of Sarajevo, the longest siege of the 20th century, ends – more than two months after the signing of the Dayton Agreement.
• 2004 At the Academy Awards, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, which wins in all eleven nominated categories, is the most successful film.
• 2016 The Equal Care Day is launched, modeled on the Equal Pay Day, as an action day for greater appreciation and a fair distribution of care work.
• 2020 The U.S. Special Representative for Reconciliation in Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, and the head of the Taliban's political office in Doha, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, sign the Doha Agreement.

Born on February 29

• 1860 Herman Hollerith, American entrepreneur, engineer, and inventor
• 1904 Jimmy Dorsey, American jazz musician
• 1908 Balthus, Polish-French painter
• 1920 Michèle Morgan, French actress
• 1940 Margit Carstensen, German stage and film actress
• 1940 Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, German librarian and president of the Goethe-Institut
• 1960 Cheb Khaled, Algerian singer, musician, and singer-songwriter
• 1960 Norbert Lehmann, German journalist and television presenter
• 1980 Eric Benz, German actor and singer
• 2000 Ferran Torres, Spanish footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „29. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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