8 events for 29 February:
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(+) 555 Years Ago Today Saturday 29th of February 1468 220th Pope Paulus III is born as Alessandro Farnese in Canino, Lazio, Italy. |
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(+) 231 Years Ago Today Wednesday 29th of February 1792 Composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini is born in Pesaro, Marche, Italy. |
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(+) 159 Years Ago Today Monday 29th of February 1864 Outsider artist Adolf Wölfli is born in Bern, Mittelland, Switzerland. |
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(+) 115 Years Ago Today Saturday 29th of February 1908 Artist Balthasar Kłossowski aka Balthus is born as Kłossowski de Rola in Paris, Île-de-France, France. |
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(+) 67 Years Ago Today Wednesday 29th of February 1956 Member of the Rote Armee Fraktion Johannes Thimme is born in Erlangen, Bayern, Germany. |
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(+) 67 Years Ago Today Wednesday 29th of February 1956 Serial killer Aileen Carol Wuornos aka The Florida Highway Killer is born as Pittman in Rochester, Michigan, United States. |
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(-) 63 Years Ago Today The Bullet Traced his HeadMonday 29th of February 1960 FBI Special Agent Melvin Horace Purvis aka Little Mel commits suicide by a shot in the head at the age of 57 in Florence, South Carolina, United States. Purvis died from a gunshot wound to the head fired from the pistol given to him by fellow agents when he resigned from the FBI. A later investigation suggested that Purvis may have shot himself accidentally while trying to extract a tracer bullet jammed in the pistol. |
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(x) 27 Years Ago Today Thursday 29th of February 1996 123 die in Faucett Boeing 737-222 Flight 251 crash in Rodríguez Ballón International Airport, Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru. |