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Friday, February 28, 2020
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| 1526 | Saxony & Hesse form League of Gotha or League of Protestant Princes |
| 1670 | Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I |
| 1713 | French troops shell Willemstadt, Curacao |
| 1859 | Dan Sickles kills Barton Key in front of the White House |
| 1860 | Warsaw Massacre: Russian troops shoot hundreds of protesting Poles |
| 1864 | Confederates open "Camp Sumter" for POWs, near Andersonville, |
| 1865 | Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri |
| 1881 | First Boer War: Boers defeat British at battle of Majuba |
| 1900 | Anglo-Boer War: General Cronje surrenders to English after Battle of Paardeberg |
| 1906 | France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides |
| 1933 | Nazis torch Reichsstag Building, blame Communists, and demand more power |
| 1939 | France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain |
| 1942 | Japanese begin landings on Java |
| 1942 | Java Sea: Allied sqn. defeated by superior Japanese force with great loss |
| 1943 | 9th Aus Div arrives at Sydney from the Middle East, 23 days at sea. |
| 1944 | Allied aircraft attack Japanese targets on Los Negros |
| 1944 | Alamo Scouts land on Los Negros, the Admiralties, for reconnaissance |
| 1991 | Operation Desert Storm: ground operations end, Iraqis ousted from Kuwait |
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| 1704 | Deefield Massacre: Indians 40-50, kidnap 100 in Masschusetts |
| 1708 | Slave revolt, Newtown, Long Island, NY, 11 die |
| 1778 | Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of black men |
| 1799 | Jean-Etienne Championnet, commander of French troops in Naples, sacked |
| 1836 | San Patricio: Mexicans defeat Texians in a surprise cavalry attack |
| 1844 | USS Princeton: 14-inch gun "Peacemaker" explodes, SecNav, others, killed |
| 1847 | Battle of Sacramento: US defeats Mexico |
| 1864 | Kilpatrick's Raid on Richmond begins (to 10 March) |
| 1900 | Anglo-Boer War: Buller relieves Ladysmith |
| 1901 | Anglo-Boer War: Abortive Middleburg peace talks between Kitchener and Botha |
| 1939 | Great Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain |
| 1942 | Dutch East Indies: Japanese land on Java, last Allied bastion |
| 1942 | Sunda Strait: USS Houston & HMAS Perth engaged by Japanese just before midnight. |
| 1943 | Burma: Japanese operations against Kachin guerrillas. |
| 1943 | 8 Japanese transports with c. 7000 troops sail from Rabaul for Lae |
| 1944 | Alamo Scouts are withdrawn from Los Negros |
| 1944 | Air attacks on Los Negros continue. |
| 1944 | Mounted 2nd Cav Div (Colored) ships out for North Africa. |
| 1945 | Philippines: U.S. forces land on Palawan. |
| 1976 | Spain withdraws from Western Sahara |
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| 1848 | Neufchatel secedes from Switzerland, but is quickly brought to heel |
| 1856 | Crimean War: Hostilities cease |
| 1936 | FDR signs the Second Neutrality Act |
| 1944 | Admiralty Is.: U.S. troops land on Los Negros, to help encircle Rabaul. |
| 1960 | JFK makes the "Missile Gap" a campaign issue |
| 1988 | Operation Hooper: Second SADF attack on Tumpo, Angola |
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