This Day in History Feb. 29

blue water massey · Feb 28, 2016

Feb. 29

1504 Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
1692 Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, accused of witchcraft, Salem
1704 French & Indians attack Deerfield MA
1864 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
1904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panam? Canal
1908 Dutch scientists produce solid helium
1936 FDR signs 2nd neutrality act
1940 45 U boats sunk this month (170,000 ton)
1944 US troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands
1960 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
1964 LBJ reveals US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter
1968 US end regular flights with nuclear bombs
1984 Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down

Rick Kr · Mar 1, 2016

I thought you would have mentioned around 45BC leap year was standardized, kind of.
Depending on what type of calendar of the time you reference.

This Day in History Feb. 29

blue water massey

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Rick Kr

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