February 29 Events

2004 76th Academy Awards Oscar Ceremony, Billy Crystal hosts, Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King sweeps all eleven nominations, including Best Picture, Sean Penn and Charlize Theron win lead acting awards
2000 At least 700 died in flooding in Mozambique
1996 Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup
1992 Dawn Coe wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1992 Professional Spring Football League begins
1988 KWK-FM in St. Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG
1988 Mark Greatbatch scores 107* vs. England on Test Cricket debut
1988 New York City Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs
1988 Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WW II deportations
1984 Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down
1980 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHL player to score 800 career goals
1980 Michael Bracey ends 59 h 55 m trapped in an elevator, England
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
1968 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
1968 Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy
1968 Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres
1968 U.S. end regular flights with nuclear bombs
1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks
1964 "Rugantino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 28 performances
1964 Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 m
1964 Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter
1964 North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime
1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
1960 1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
1960 Earthquake kills 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec