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He has one foot in the grave - the other on a banana peel What happened on February 29 Please support our Sponsors - They help us keep this site Alive! 1288 It becomes legal in Scotland for a woman to propose marriage to a man. 1504 Christopher Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican natives into providing his crew with food. 1504 Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians 1528 Patrick Hamilton, student of Parid, Louvain, St Andrews, Marburg, Abbot of Fearn, burned at St Andrew for heresy, the first Reformation martyr in Scotland 1692 Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem 1696 English ex-premier Earl Danby accused of corruption 1704 French & Indians attack Deerfield MA, kill 50, abduct 100 1704 Queen Anne's War: French forces and Native Americans attack and destroy Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 100 men, women, and children. 1712 February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style. 1720 Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I. 1784 Marquis de Sade transferred from Vincennes fortress to the Bastille 1796 Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England 1816 Dutch (King) Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna 1848 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland 1856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease 1864 American Civil War: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid fails - Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted. 1880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens 1892 Britain & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea 1892 St. Petersburg, Florida incorporated. 1904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal 1908 Dutch scientists produce solid helium 1916 Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old. 1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland 1932 TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States. 1936 Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air. 1936 FDR signs 2nd neutrality act 1940 "Gone with the Wind," wins 8 Oscars 1940 Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations 1940 For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award. 1940 Gone with the Wind picks up eight Academy Awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture. 1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes first black woman to win an Oscar 1940 In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, due to the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives his 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from the Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. 1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death 1944 US troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands 1944 World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in the American General Douglas MacArthur-led Operation Brewer. 1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died 1952 Dick Button wins his 5th consecutive world figure skating title 1952 The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority. 1956 Islamic Republic established in Pakistan 1956 President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term 1960 An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country. 1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds 1960 Hugh Hefner opens the first Playboy Club in Chicago. 1960 JFK makes "missile gap" the Presidential campaign issue 1960 Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago 1964 Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 meters 1964 In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds). 1964 LBJ reveals US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter 1964 North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime 1968 Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy 1968 Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell announces the discovery of the first pulsar (a star that emits regular radio waves). 1968 First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) 1968 US end regular flights with nuclear bombs 1972 Hank Aaron becomes first baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year 1972 Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for $400,000 contribution to Republican Party 1972 Vietnam War: Vietnamization - South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam. 1980 Gordie Howe becomes first NHL player to score 800 career goals 1980 Michael Bracey ends 59 hours 55 minutes trapped in an elevator, England 1980 Yigal Allon, former Israeli foreign minister and supporter of Israeli independence, dies at age 61. 1984 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he is leaving office after serving over 15 years. 1988 Mark Greatbatch scores 107 vs England on Test Cricket debut 1988 NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs 1988 Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WWII deportations 1988 South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town 1992 Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1992 The Professional Spring Football League begins 1996 Visitor posting - Emily Cooper the most awesome girl in the world was born!!!!!!!!!! - USA 1996 A Peruvian Boeing 737 crashes in the Andes, killing all 123 people aboard. 1996 Daniel Green is convicted of murdering the father of basketball star Michael Jordan during a 1993 holdup, and is sentenced to life in prison. 1996 Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup 1996 Novelist Joan Collins awarded US $1 million from Random House for breach of contract. 1996 Soyuz TM-23, lands 2000 Six year old Dedrick Owens shoots and kills Kayla Rolland, also six years old, at Theo J. 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