Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of February 29:
1468 Paul III last Renaissance pope (1534-49)
1692 Edward Cave England, printer (Gentlemen's Magazine)
1696 Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard composer
1728 Robert Bage English writer (Criticism by Peter Faulkner)
1736 Anna Lee Manchester England, founder (Shaker movement in America)
1784 Franz von Klenze German architect (Hermitage, St-Petersburg)
1792 Gioacchino Rossini Pesaro Italy, composer (Barber of Seville)
1792 Karl Ernst von Baler Russia, naturalist (discovered human ovum)
1796 [Lambert] Adolphe J Quetelet Belgian astronomer/meteorology
1812 Hermann Hirschboch German composer
1820 Adolf Schimon composer
1828 Antonio Guzman Blanco President of Venezuela
1840 John Philip Holland Liscannor Ireland, pioneer in submarine building
1852 Frederic Hymen Cowen composer
1860 Herman Hollerith inventor (1st electric tabulating machine)
1884 Alfred Sendrey composer
1896 William W Wellman Brookline MA, director (Star is Born)
1896 Omer C F L Tulippe Belgian geographer
1896 Ranchhodji Morarji Desai premier of India (1977-79)
1896 Stanley Swash CEO (Woolworths)
1896 Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel composer
1900 Yórgos Seféris [Seferi dis], Greek diplomat/poet (Strofi)
1904 Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberdorft Sr near Hamburg, Germany; had a Christian name for every letter in the alphabet, shortened it to Mr Wolfe Plus 585 Sr
1904 Jimmy Dorsey Shenandoah PA, orchestra leader (Stage Show)
1904 John "Pepper" Martin baseballer (NL stolen base leader 1933,34,36)
1904 Alan Richardson composer
1908 Alf Gover cricketer (bowled in 4 Tests for England/famous coach)
1908 Balthus painter (Valerie)
1916 Dinah Shore Winchester TN,(b. Frances Rose Shore)singer, actress, television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s
1920 Arthur Franz Perth Amboy NJ, actor (Invaders From Mars, Young Lions)
1920 James Mitchell Sacramento CA, actor (Palmer-All My Children)
1920 Louise Wood director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72)
1920 Michele Morgan actress (Bluebeard, Joan of Paris)
1924 David Beattie British Governor-General of New Zealand
1924 Otto Hutter physiologist
1928 Alan Loveday British violinist
1928 Joss Ackland London England, actor (Queenie, To Kill a Priest)
1928 McHenry Boatwright signer
1932 Gavin Stevens cricket (Australian bat on 59-60 India/Pakistan tour)
1936 Alex Rocco actor (Blue Knight, Stanley, Stunt Man)
1936 Alwin Schockemohle Germany, equestrian jumper (Olympics-gold-1976)
1936 Henri "Rocket" Richard NHL center (Montréal Canadiens)
1936 Jack R Lousma Grand Rapids MI, Colonel USMC/astronaut (Skylab 3, STS-3)
1940 Gretchen Christopher Olympia WA, American Pop Singer/Songwriter, Founder and Female Lead of The Fleetwoods (Come Softly To Me, Mr Blue)
1944 David Briggs record producer
1944 Dennis Farina Chicago IL, actor (Mike Torello-Crime Story)
1944 Phyllis Frelich Devil's Lake ND, actor (Love is Never Silent)
1948 Nikolai Pimenov USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympics-silver-1976)
1948 Yuri Pimenov USSR, coxless pair rowers (Olympics-silver-1976)
1948 Patricia [Anne] McKillip US, sci-fi author (Fool's Run)
1952 Bart Stupak (Representative-D-MI)
1952 Raisa Smetanina USSR, cross country skier (Olympics-gold-1976, 80, 92)
1952 Raul Gonzalez Mexican 50K speed walker (world record)
1952 Tim[othy] Powers US, sci-fi author (Epitaph in Rust, Night Moves)
1956 Randy Jackson rocker (Zebra-Tell Me What You Want)
1964 Henrik Sundstrom Sweden, tennis star
1964 James RB Ogilvy son of English princess Alexandra
1968 Bryce Paup NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Buffalo Bills)
1968 Cary Conklin NFL quarterback (San Francisco 49ers)
1968 Chucky Brown NBA forward (Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks)
1972 Antonio Sabato Jr actor (Jagger Cates-General Hospital)
1972 Chris Devine Allentown PA, diver (Olympics-96)
1972 Cyrus Beasley Rowe NY, rower (Olympics-1996)
1972 Fabien Bownes NFL wide receiver (Chicago Bears)
1972 Mark Farraway CFL offensive linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1976 Bryan Gillooly Auburn NY, diver (Olympics-96)
Deaths which occurred on February 29:
0468 St Hilary [Pope Hilarius] Catholic Pope (461-468), dies
0642 Oswald English missionaries/saint, dies in battle
1528 Patrick Hamilton Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake
1604 John Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604), dies at about 74
1844 Thaddaus Weigl composer, dies at 67
1852 John Landseer printer/engraver (Royal Academy), dies
1868 [Charles] Louis I [Augustus] King of Bavaria (L Montez), dies at 81
1916 Edward H J Keurvels Flemish conductor/composer (Parisina), dies at 62
1928 Adolphe Appia Swiss set designer/theorist, dies at 65
1928 Armando V Diaz Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), dies at 66
1932 "Big Ed" Morris pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies
1940 Edward Frederic Benson novelist, dies
1956 Elpidio Quirino President of Philippines (1949-53), dies at 65
1964 Frank Albertson actor (It's a Wonderful Life, Psycho), dies at 55
1964 Victor van Straelen Flemish biologist/paleontologist, dies at 74
1980 Yigol Alton Israeli Foreign Minister, dies at 61
1984 Roland Culver actor (Thunderball), dies of heart problems at 83
1992 Earl Scheib CEO (Earl Scheib Auto Paint), dies at 85
1992 Johnny Mack British actor (Time Lord-Dr Who), dies at 70
1996 Duncan Stuart Wilson Fighter pilot-MacDonald dies at 83
1996 Joe Minogue journalist, dies at 72
1996 John Grant Rear Admiral, dies at 87
1996 Wes Farrell songwriter, dies at 56
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
1968 FITTON CROSLEY J. HARTFORT CT 12/21/75 SRV RETURNED REMAINS 1968 HARRIS CLEVELAND S. BIRMINGHAM AL REMAINS RETURNED 03/20/85
0468 St Hilary ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1504 Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
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
1720 Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden resigns
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
1832 Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil
1836 Giacomo Meyerbeer's (Jakob Liebmann Beer) opera "Les Huguenots" premieres in Paris (Théâtre de l'Opéra, Paris)
1848 Neufchatel declares independence of Switzerland
1856 Hostilities in Russo-Turkish War cease
1868 1st British government of Disraeli forms
1880 Gotthard railway tunnel between Switzerland & Italy opens
1892 Britain & US sign treaty on seal hunting in Bering Sea
1904 Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panamá Canal
1908 Dutch scientists produce solid helium
1932 Failed coup attempt by fascist Lapua Movement in Finland
1936 FDR signs 2nd neutrality act
1940 Frederic from G & S "Pirates of Penzance" finally released by pirate
1940 "Gone with the Wind" wins 8 Oscars
1940 45 U boats sunk this month (170,000 ton)
1940 Hattie McDaniel becomes 1st black woman to win an Oscar
1944 5 leaders of Indonesia Communist Party sentenced to death
1944 US troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands
1948 Stern-group bomb Cairo-Haifa train, 27 British soldiers died
1952 Dick Button wins his 5th consecutive world figure skating title
1952 Ice Dance Championship at Paris France won by Westwood & Demmy Great Britain
1952 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Ria Falk & 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
1956 Islamic Republic established in Pakistan
1956 President Eisenhower announces he would seek a 2nd term
1960 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds
1960 JFK makes "missile gap" the Presidential campaign issue
1960 KRET TV channel 23 in Richardson TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 meters
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
1964 "Rugantino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 28 performances
1968 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
1968 Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy
1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) reports against racism & demands aid given to blacks
1968 Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres
1968 US end regular flights with nuclear bombs
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 Hank Aaron becomes 1st 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
1980 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals
1980 Michael Bracey ends 59 hours 55 minutes trapped in an elevator, England
1984 Canadian PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down
1988 KWK-FM in St Louis MO changes call letters to WKBG
1988 Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WWII deportations
1988 NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs
1988 Mark Greatbatch scores 107 vs England on Test Cricket debut
1992 The Professional Spring Football League begins
1992 Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1996 Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup
1996 Soyuz TM-23, lands
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Religious Observances
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Hilarius, pope (461-68), calendar reformer (leap years)
Christian : Commemoration of St Oswald, archbishop of York
Religious History
468 Death of Pope St. Hilary (Hilarius), 46th Bishop of Rome. During his seven-year pontificate, he reaffirmed the earlier church councils of Nicea (325), Ephesus (431) and Chalcedon (451), at which the major creeds of the Early Church were hammered out.
1528 Martyrdom of Scottish reformer Patrick Hamilton, 24. Having spent time with Martin Luther and William Tyndale, Hamilton began promoting Reformation in Scotland. He was afterward arrested and burned at the stake one of the first martyrs of the Scottish Reformation.
1692 The Salem Witch Trials began on this Leap Day when Tituba, the female Indian servant of the Rev. Samuel Parris, and one Sarah Goode were both arrested and accused of witchcraft.
1880 American evangelist Frank Sandford, 18, was converted to a believing Christian faith. As an adult Sandford became an instrumental figure in Holiness and Pentecostal history.
1948 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Redemption marks the new beginning of life. Men and women do not live at all until they have life eternal.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
