Who was born on February 29 and what day is it?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Rare diseases day.
🌏 International Repetitive Strain Injury Awareness Day
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇬🇧 Great Britain, 🇺🇸 USA – National Toast Day
👉 EVENTS:
– 1768 – Polish nobles formed the Confederation of Lawyers.
– 1796 – Jay’s Treaty between the United States and Great Britain takes effect, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two countries.
– 1916 – The United Kingdom annexed Tokelau and made it part of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony.
– 1920 – Czechoslovakia adopted a new constitution.
– 1940 – Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy Award for her role as the mother in Gone With the Wind.
– 1960 – A 5.7-magnitude earthquake in Morocco kills about 12,000 people, injures another 12,000, leaves 35,000 homeless, and nearly destroys the southern city of Agadir.
– 1996 – Faucett Flight 251 crashes on approach to Rodriguez Balon International Airport in Arequipa, Peru, killing all 123 people on board.
– 2012 – The construction of Tokyo Skytree is completed.
– 2020 – The United States and the Taliban sign an Afghan peace accord in Doha, Qatar, ending the 2001-2021 war in Afghanistan.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1896 – Morarji Desai (1995) – Indian independence activist.
– 1928 – Seymour Papert (2016) – American mathematician and computer scientist.
– 1936 – Jack R. Lousma – American aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut and politician.
– 1988 – Lena Johanna Gerke is a German fashion model and TV presenter.
– 1992 – Jessica Long – United States Paralympic swimmer born in Russia.
– 2000 – Ferran Torres is a Spanish football player, a member of the Barcelona club of La Liga.
– 2004 – Abdugadir Husanov – Uzbek football player, defender of French club “Lance”.