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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_29" title="February 29">February 29</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1704" title="1704">1704</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne%27s_War" title="Queen Anne's War">Queen Anne's War</a>: French and Native American forces <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_Deerfield" title="Raid on Deerfield">raided</a></b> the English settlement of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deerfield,_Massachusetts" title="Deerfield, Massachusetts">Deerfield, Massachusetts</a>, killing more than 50 colonists.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1768" title="1768">1768</a> – A group of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlachta" title="Szlachta">Polish nobles</a> established the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Confederation" title="Bar Confederation">Bar Confederation</a></b> to defend the internal and external independence of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth" title="Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth">Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth</a> against Russian influence and King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_August_Poniatowski" title="Stanisław August Poniatowski"><span class="nowrap">Stanisław II</span> Augustus</a> <i>(portrait shown)</i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960" title="1960">1960</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_Agadir_earthquake" title="1960 Agadir earthquake">The deadliest earthquake in Moroccan history</a></b> struck the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agadir" title="Agadir">Agadir</a>, killing at least 12,000 people.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980" title="1980">1980</a> – <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Bougie_du_Sapeur" title="La Bougie du Sapeur">La Bougie du Sapeur</a></b></i>, a humorous French newspaper that is published only on leap days, printed its first issue.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008" title="2008">2008</a> – Belgian author <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha_Defonseca" title="Misha Defonseca">Misha Defonseca</a></b> admitted that <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misha:_A_M%C3%A9moire_of_the_Holocaust_Years" title="Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years">her bestselling memoir</a></b> about surviving the Holocaust was in fact a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_forgery" title="Literary forgery">literary forgery</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28" title="February 28">February 28</a>; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1" title="March 1">March 1</a></b>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2" title="March 2">March 2</a></p>
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