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Old 02-28-2012, 09:04 PM
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February 29th
1792 ~ Birthday of Gioacchino Rossini, Italian composer.

1860 ~ Birthday of Herman Hollerith, American statistician.

1868 ~ Birthday of Ludwig I of Bavaria.

1904 ~ Birthday Jimmy Dorsey, American bandleader.

1940 ~ Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award.

1960 ~ An earthquake in Morocco killed over 3,000 people.

1968 ~ President Johnson's Kerner Commission warned that racism was causing America to move “toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal.”.

1980 ~ Gordie Howe made NHL history when he scored his 800th goal.

1984 ~ Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced he would retire.

2004 ~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned as President of Haiti.
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