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Construction of Tokyo Skytree, the world's tallest tower and third-tallest structure, was completed.
Belgian author Misha Defonseca admitted that her bestselling memoir about surviving the Holocaust was in fact a literary forgery.
Angelina Jolie wears a White Marc Bouwer dress to the 76th Academy Awards, which has since been placed on numerous lists for best red carpet fashion.
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The Flour Massacre took place in the Gaza Strip: Israeli forces opened fire on Palestinians waiting for aid amidst the Gaza war, killing over 100 and wounding 750.
During a demonstration, pro-government colectivos shoot at disputed President and Speaker of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó and his supporters in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, leaving five injured.
The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.
Muhyiddin Yassin is appointed as the 8th Prime Minister of Malaysia, amid the 2020 Malaysian political crisis.
Luxembourg becomes the first country in the world to render public transport free nationwide.
In the Miqdadiyah bombing: at least 40 people are killed and 58 others wounded following a suicide bombing by ISIL at a Shi'ite funeral in the city of Miqdadiyah, Diyala, Iraq.
North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid.
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence withdraws Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan after news of his deployment is leaked to foreign media.
Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as president of Haiti following a coup.
Angelina Jolie wears a White Marc Bouwer dress to the 76th Academy Awards, which has since been placed on numerous lists for best Oscars fashion.
Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War.
Faucett Perú Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew are killed.
The Siege of Sarajevo officially ends.
A referendum is begun in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the determination of Bosnian independence.
South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from South Vietnam as part of Nixon's Vietnamization policy in the Vietnam War.
Aeroflot Flight 15 crashes Irkutsk Oblast, Soviet Union, due to a loss of control. Eighty-three of the 84 occupants onboard die. The exact cause of the accident is unknown.
British Eagle International Airlines Flight 802/6 crashes into the Glungezer mountain in the Tux Alps of Austria, killing all 75 people aboard.
The 5.7 Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by American general Douglas MacArthur, in World War II.
For her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's consul general in San Francisco.
The February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
The Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution.
Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
James Madison University is founded at Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States as The State Normal and Industrial School for Women by the Virginia General Assembly.
St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation.
Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on March 24.
February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar.
In Queen Anne's War, French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage begins as he leaves Batavia in command of three ships.
Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies.
Odo, count of Paris, is crowned king of West Francia (France) by Archbishop Walter of Sens at Compiègne.