- Change theme
Search by Keyword
Search by Date
This Day On History
| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 29th of February 1504 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies. |
| 29th of February 1704 | EVENT | Queen Anne's War: French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, killing 100 men, women, and children. |
| 29th of February 1712 | EVENT | February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style. |
| 29th of February 1720 | EVENT | Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I. |
| 29th of February 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid fails : plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted. |
| 29th of February 1892 | EVENT | St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated. |
| 29th of February 1916 | EVENT | Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old. |
| 29th of February 1932 | EVENT | TIME magazine features eccentric American politician William "Alfalfa" Murray on its cover after Murray stated his intention to run for President of the United States. |
| 29th of February 1936 | EVENT | Baby Snooks, played by Fanny Brice, debuts on the radio program The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air. |
| 29th of February 1940 | EVENT | For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award. |
| 29th of February 1940 | EVENT | In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco. |
| 29th of February 1940 | EVENT | Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations |
| 29th of February 1944 | EVENT | World War II: The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer led by American General Douglas MacArthur. |
| 29th of February 1952 | EVENT | The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority. |
| 29th of February 1956 | EVENT | U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces to the nation that he is running for a second term. |
| 29th of February 1960 | EVENT | Family Circus makes its debut. |
| 29th of February 1960 | EVENT | An earthquake in Morocco kills over 3,000 people and nearly destroys Agadir in the southern part of the country. |
| 29th of February 1964 | EVENT | In Sydney, Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser sets a new world record in the 100-meter freestyle swimming competition (58.9 seconds). |
| 29th of February 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Vietnamization : South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam. |
| 29th of February 1972 | EVENT | Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to sign a $200,000 contract. |
| 29th of February 1980 | EVENT | Gordie Howe of the then Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal. |
| 29th of February 1984 | EVENT | Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces he will retire as soon as the Liberals can elect another leader. |
| 29th of February 1988 | EVENT | Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the Canadian House of Commons to come out as gay. |
| 29th of February 1988 | EVENT | South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town |
| 29th of February 1996 | EVENT | Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes, killing 123 people. |
| 29th of February 2004 | EVENT | Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns as President of Haiti following popular rebel uprising. |
| 29th of February 1528 | DEATH | Patrick Hamilton, Scottish religious reformer (Born 1504) |
| 29th of February 1592 | DEATH | Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer (Born 1540) |
| 29th of February 1600 | DEATH | Caspar Hennenberger, German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer (Born 1529) |
| 29th of February 1604 | DEATH | John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (Born 1530) |
| 29th of February 1740 | DEATH | Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (Born 1667) |
| 29th of February 1744 | DEATH | John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher (Born 1683) |
| 29th of February 1820 | DEATH | Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic (Born 1743) |
| 29th of February 1848 | DEATH | Louis-Francois, Baron Lejeune, French general and painter (Born 1775) |
| 29th of February 1868 | DEATH | Ludwig I of Bavaria (Born 1786) |
| 29th of February 1880 | DEATH | Sir James Wilson, Premier of Tasmania (Born 1812, also on 29 February) |
| 29th of February 1908 | DEATH | Pat Garrett, U.S. gunslinger (Born 1850) |
| 29th of February 1908 | DEATH | John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia (Born 1860) |
| 29th of February 1920 | DEATH | Ernie Courtney, American baseball player (Born 1875) |
| 29th of February 1928 | DEATH | Ina Coolbrith, first poet laureate of California (Born 1841) |
| 29th of February 1940 | DEATH | Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (Born 1867) |
| 29th of February 1944 | DEATH | Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, President of Finland (Born 1861) |
| 29th of February 1948 | DEATH | Rebel Oakes, American baseball player and manager (Born 1883) |
| 29th of February 1956 | DEATH | Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines (Born 1890) |
| 29th of February 1964 | DEATH | Frank Albertson, American actor (Born 1909) |
| 29th of February 1968 | DEATH | Lena Blackburne, American baseball player and manager (Born 1886) |
| 29th of February 1968 | DEATH | Tore ?rjasaeter, Norwegian poet (Born 1886) |
| 29th of February 1980 | DEATH | Gil Elvgren, American artist (Born 1914) |
| 29th of February 1992 | DEATH | Earl Scheib, American car repainter (Born 1908) |
| 29th of February 1992 | DEATH | Ruth Pitter, English poet (Born 1897) |
| 29th of February 1996 | DEATH | Shams Pahlavi, Persian princess (Born 1917) |
| 29th of February 1996 | DEATH | Ralph Rowe, American baseball player and manager (Born 1924) |
| 29th of February 2000 | DEATH | Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (Born 1961) |
| 29th of February 2004 | DEATH | Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna (Born 1923) |
| 29th of February 2004 | DEATH | Jerome Lawrence, American playwright (Born 1915) |
| 29th of February 2008 | DEATH | Janet Kagan, American author (Born 1946) |