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Birthday: 28/2/1824: Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker
Birthday: 28/2/1909: Stephen Spender, English poet
Birthday: 28/2/1909: Linus Pauling, American chemist & physicist
Birthday: 28/2/1915: Sir Peter Medawar, English immunologist
Birthday: 28/2/1931: Peter Alliss, Ex-golfer and now commentator
Birthday: 28/2/1932: Brain Moore, Football commentator
Birthday: 28/2/1946: Robin Cook, Labour MP & Shadow Cabinet minister
Birthday: 28/2/1951: Barry McGuigan, Irish boxer
Birthday: 29/2/1736: Ann Lee, Founder of the American Society of Shakers
Birthday: 29/2/1736: Gioacchino Rossini, Italian operatic composer
Birthday: 29/2/1792: John Holland, American inventor of the submarine
Birthday: 29/2/1904: Jimmy Dorsey, US bandleader
Birthday: 29/2/1940: Mario Andretti, Italian racing driver
Event: 28/2/1912: The first ever parachute jump from an aeroplane was made, in the USA
Event: 28/2/1948: The last British troops left India
Event: 28/2/1959: The first polar orbiting satellite, Discoverer 1, was launched
Event: 28/2/1966: The 'Caven Club' in Liverpool, made famous by the 'Beatles', went bankrupt
Event: 28/2/1971: Women were refused the right to vote in elections, in Lichtenstein
Event: 28/2/1984: The Winter Olympic Games opened in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Event: 28/2/1991: Iraq agreed to a cease fire in Gulf War conflict
Event: 28/2/1994: Bosnian serb jets (4) were shot down after they attacked Muslim towns
Event: 29/2/1604: John Landseer, the famous painter, died
Event: 29/2/1880: The St Gotthard tunnel through the Alps was completed
Event: 29/2/1956: Pakistan became an Islamic republic
Event: 29/2/1968: The discovery of the first pulsar in space was announced
Event: 29/2/1995: 65% of the population in Bosnia Herzegovina voted in favour of independence
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