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What happened in history on this day: February 29?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On February 29 in ...
- 1940 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Short Subjects, Cartoons) to Disney for the film The Ugly Duckling.
- 1952 - The Goofy film Hello Aloha is released.
- 1956 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, featuring "A Trip through Adventureland" and the film Water Birds.
- 1976 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, featuring The Survival of Sam the Pelican.
- 2000 - Disney releases the animated film An Extremely Goofy Movie on videocassette.
- 2004 - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Best Animated Feature) for the film Finding Nemo.
- 1944 - The US 1st Cavalry Division lands on Los Negros Island in the south Pacific.
- 2000 - Activision releases the Battle Zone: Rise of the Black Dogs video game for the Nintendo 64 in the US.
- 1632 - King Gustav Adolf and the Dukes of Mecklenburg sign a treaty of alliance.
- 1944 - A export license is granted to Egyptian King Farouk for a 1933 gold double eagle.
- 1952 - Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood and Demmy (Great Britain).
- 1952 - Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk and Paul Falk of Germany.
- 1952 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Jacqueline du Bief of France.
- 1952 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button (USA).
- 1964 - Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 metres.
- 1964 - North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime.
- 1972 - Hank Aaron becomes first baseball player to sign for US$200,000 a year (US$600,000 over three years).
- 1980 - Gordie Howe becomes first NHL player to score 800 career goals.
- 1988 - Mark Greatbatch scores 107 versus England on Test Cricket debut.
- 1992 - Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open.
- 1992 - The Professional Spring Football League begins.
- 1996 - In Lumberton, North Carolina, Daniel Green is convicted of the murder of James Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan.
- 1996 - Kenya defeats West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup.
- 1504 - Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians.
- 1996 - Soyuz TM-23 lands.
- 1796 - Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences between the USA and England.
- 1892 - Britain and US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea.
- 1904 - US President Theodore Roosevelt appoints seven-man committee to study Panamá Canal.
- 1908 - Death of Patrick Garret near Organ, New Mexico, USA, shot by Wayne Brazel in a dispute over a herd of goats. Garrett was former Sherriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico, and killed William H. Bonney "Billy the Kid".
- 1936 - US President Franklin Roosevelt signs second neutrality act.
- 1944 - US troops land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands.
- 1960 - First Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 1960 - John Kennedy makes "missile gap" the US Presidential campaign issue.
- 1964 - US President Lyndon Johnson reveals US secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter.
- 1968 - National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks.
- 1968 - US ends regular flights with nuclear bombs.
- 1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1972 - Jack Anderson discloses Dita Beard (ITT) memo indicating antitrust charges were dropped for US$400,000 contribution to Republican Party.
- 1988 - New York City Mayor Koch calls President Ronald Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs.
- 1996 - In Lumberton, North Carolina, Daniel Green is convicted of the murder of James Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan.
- 2008 - American TV show The Young and the Restless becomes the number one rated daytime drama for 1000 consecutive weeks in the US, since December 1988.
- 2020 - A conditional peace agreement is signed between the United States and the Taliban.
Other history:
- 2004 - The film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King directed by Peter Jackson, wins Academy Awards in every category it was nominated for, with 11 wins in total, including Best Picture and Best Director.
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