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• ...that the initial Vietcong reaction to the 1963 South Vietnamese coup that killed Ngo Dinh Diem (pictured) was that it must have been a trick?
• ...that under the Vijayanagara empire, Kannada literature made major progress due to the development of its native metres?
• ...that Nguyen Quyen, principal of the Tonkin Free School, got his first teaching job by default?
• ...that Gregg Nations made his Lost writing debut with the episode "Eggtown" after being the script coordinator for over two seasons?
• ...that the Siege of Candia in the Cretan War (1645-1669), lasted almost 22 years?
• ...that naval heroes Peter Tordenskjold and Niels Juel are buried in Copenhagen's Church of Holmen?
• ...that according to TV critic Gareth McLean, none of the Britons featured in the Channel 4 documentary series New Hero of Comedy are "Heroes"?
• ...that the Greater Lynchburg Transit Company doubled its patronage by providing Liberty University's shuttle bus service?
• ...that Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion?
• ...that Pierre Galet is considered the "father of modern ampelography"?
  

• The euro reaches a record high closure exchange rate of US$1.5044.
• The New York Philharmonic becomes the first Western orchestra to perform a concert in North Korea.
• No Country for Old Men wins four Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
• The National Assembly of People's Power unanimously selects Raúl Castro (pictured) to succeed his brother Fidel as President of Cuba.
• Dimitris Christofias of the Progressive Party of Working People is elected President of Cyprus.
• Turkey launches a ground incursion against the Kurdistan Workers Party in northern Iraq.
• The U.S. Navy launches a missile to destroy the spy satellite USA 193.
• Forty-six people die in the crash of Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 in Venezuela.

February 28: Peace Memorial Day in Taiwan.

• 1838 %u2013 Lower Canada Rebellion: Robert Nelson (pictured), leader of the Patriotes, proclaimed the independence of Lower Canada.
• 1870 %u2013 The Bulgarian Exarchate, the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the other Orthodox churches in the 1950s, was established by the firman of Sultan Abdülâziz of the Ottoman Empire.
• 1947 %u2013 Civil disorder in Taiwan was brutally suppressed by the Chinese Nationalist military in the 228 Incident.
• 1972 %u2013 U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China concluded with the two countries issuing the Shanghai Communiqué, pledging to work toward the full normalization of diplomatic relations.
• 1986 %u2013 Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was assassinated by a lone gunman in Stockholm while walking home from a movie theatre with his wife Lisbet Palme.

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