Leap Year Day 2008
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Alemanaka: Calendar PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Kalap: Jump HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “No kind deed has ever lacked its reward.“ WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — No Mo’ Plastic Bag WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Screen Cleaner PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Slate BLOG OF THE WEEK — Nader’s Nadir 
February 29, 1951: 800 pineapple workers strike on Lanai because they hadn’t had a new contract since February 1. The strike lasts for three weeks, when the workers return to work - without a contract. Eventually the Hawaiian Pineapple Co. offers them 10 cents more an hour.
ON THIS DAY — February 29th
- 1504: Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
- 1692: Sarah Good & Tituba, a Native American servant, accused of witchcraft in Salem
- 1704: French & Indians attack Deerfield, MA - kill 50, abduct 100
- 1904: Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal
- 1936: FDR signs 2nd neutrality act
- 1956: Islamic Republic established in Pakistan
- 1960: First Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
- 1968: Beatles’ “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” wins Grammy
- 1968: First pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
- 1988: Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in WW II deportations
- 1988: NYC Mayor Koch calls Ronald Reagan a “WIMP” in the war on drugs
- 1992: South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested while protesting government bans on anti-apartheid groups
- 2004: Facing rebellion, Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigns
BORN ON THIS DAY — February 29th
- 1792: Gioacchino Rossini, composer
- 1792: Karl Ernst von Baler, naturalist (discovered human ovum)
- 1904: Jimmy Dorsey, orchestra leader 1920: Arthur Franz, actor
- 1936: Henri (“Rocket”) Richard, NHL center
- 1944: Dennis Farina, actor1948: Patricia (Anne) McKillip, sci-fi author
- 1950: John Roarke, comedian
- 1952: Raisa Smetanina, USSR cross country skier
