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1504 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
1792 - February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style (Julian calendar).
1820 – Was born Louis Swift Роден, American astronomer, discoverer of many comets and nebulae.
1960 - An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir kills around 1,100 people.
2012 - Tokyo Sky Tree construction completed. Now it is the tallest tower in the world 634 meters high, and second tallest (man-made) structure on Earth, next to Burj Khalifa.
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1838 - Robert Nelson, leader of the Patriotes, proclaims the independence of Lower Canada (today Quebec.
1922 - The United Kingdom ends its protectorate over Egypt through a Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
1959 - Discoverer 1 an American spy satellite is the first object intended to achieve a polar orbit, is launched. It failed to achieve orbit.
1997 - An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in Armenia and Azerbaijan kills around 1,100 people.
1997 - Ardabil earthquake (1997); in northern Iran is responsible for about 3,000 deaths.
2001 - Nisqually Earthquake; a magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits the Nisqually Valley and the Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia area of the U.S. state of Washington.
2010 – Died Kushiro Hayashi, Japanese astrophysicist.
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1844 - The Dominican Republic gained independence from Haiti
1967 - Dominica gained independence from Britain.
1976 - Revolutionary Movement "Polisario" declared the former Spanish colony Western Sahara as an independent state.
1996 - The Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Greece established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level.
2010 - Chilean earthquake measuring 8, 8 degrees; over 500 victims and thousands injured. The earthquake later caused a tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands.
Independence Day of the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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1531 - In Lisbon, Portugal, about 25,000,000 people are killed in an earthquake.
1909 - The Ottoman Empire recognizes Austro-Hungarian annexation to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1919 - United States President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park (see Grand Canyon National Park).
1929 - United States President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
1966 - Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB.
1992 The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina recognized the Republic of Macedonia.
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1866 - Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull, human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons and elephants had co-existed.
1907 - US proclaims protectorate over Dominican Republic
1908 - 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1977 - Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
1994 – Officially started to work the Embassy of Republic of Macedonia in Brussels.