February 29 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for February 29 Leap Day
In the headlines today:

	If you were born on February 29, because of leap day, you age only one-fourth as often as everyone else!
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	A Peruvian jetliner crashes in the Andes, killing all 123 people aboard.
1984	Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he is leaving office after serving over 15 years.
1980	Yigal Allon, former Israeli foreign minister and supporter of independence for Israel, dies at age 61.
1972		Hank Aaron becomes the first baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year. (photo credit: Greenwood Press)
1968	Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell announces the discovery of the first pulsar (a star that emits regular radio waves).
1960	Hugh Hefner opens the first Playboy Club in Chicago.
1940	Gone with the Wind wins eight Academy Awards, including the Oscar for Best Picture.
1904	US president Theodore Roosevelt appoints a seven-man commission to oversee completion of the Panama Canal.
1504	Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican natives into providing his crew with food.
1288	It becomes legal in Scotland for a woman to propose marriage to a man.
	Curious fact: In days of yore, February 29 was the day when women proposed to men.