On this day: February 29

February 29: Leap day (Gregorian calendar)

Tokyo Skytree

• 1752 – Alaungpaya, a village chief in Upper Burma, founded the Konbaung Dynasty; by the time of his death, he had unified all of Myanmar, and driven out the French and the British.
• 1768 – A group of Polish nobles established the Bar Confederation to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against Russian influence and against King Stanisław II Augustus.
• 1960 – Morocco's deadliest earthquake struck the city of Agadir, killing at least 12,000 people.
• 1944 – The Admiralty Islands campaign during the Pacific War of World War II began when American forces assaulted Los Negros Island, the third largest of the Admiralty Islands.
• 1980 – La Bougie du Sapeur, the French newspaper that publishes only on Leap Day, printed its first edition.
• 2012 – Construction of Tokyo Skytree (pictured), the world's tallest tower and second-tallest structure, was completed.

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