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29 February 1792Italy [births and deaths]Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer, born in Pesaro, Papal States (–1868).
29 February 1956Pakistan [law and government]The Pakistan parliament passes a bill containing a constitution for the new independent Islamic Republic of Pakistan. On 2 March it decides to stay in the British Commonwealth, and on 23 March it becomes independent, with Iskander Mirza, the governor general, as provisional president.


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