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Today in History
February 29th
1504 - Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
1644 - Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage began.
1704 - Queen Anne's War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive.
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 on 24 March.
1752 - King Alaungpaya founds Konbaung Dynasty, the last dynasty of Burmese monarchy.
1768 - Polish nobles formed Bar Confederation.
1796 - The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
1864 - American Civil War: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid fails - plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
1892 - St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
1912 - The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
1916 - Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
1916 - Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.
1920 - Czechoslovak National assembly adopted the Constitution.
1936 - Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
1936 - February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends.
1940 - For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
1940 - Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations.
1940 - In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
1944 - World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur.
1952 - The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
1960 - An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country.
1964 - In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds).
1972 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.
1980 - Gordie Howe of the then Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal.
1988 - South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.
1988 - Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the Canadian House of Commons to come out as gay.
1992 - First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum.
1996 - Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes, all 123 passengers and crew died.
2004 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as President of Haiti following a coup.
2012 - Tokyo Skytree construction completed. Now it is the tallest tower in the world, 634 meters high, and second tallest (man-made) structure on Earth, next to Burj Khalifa.
All above information obtained from Wikipedia.org
Source://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_29
