29 February: What Happened On This Day in History

Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew die.1996 – Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.2000 – Second Chechen War: Eighty-four Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert.2004 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup.2008 – The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence decides to withdraw Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan "immediately" after a leak led to his deployment being reported by foreign media.2008 – Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claimed to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.2012 – Tokyo Skytree construction completed. It is the tallest tower in the world, 634 meters high, and second tallest artificial structure on Earth, next to Burj Khalifa.