Today is Wednesday, February 29, the 60th day of 2012. There are 306 days left in the year.
1504 ― Columbus uses a lunar eclipse to frighten hostile Jamaican Indians
1832 ― Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil
1908 ― Dutch scientists produce solid helium
1940 ― ``Gone with the Wind" wins eight Oscars
1956 ― Islamic Republic established in Pakistan
1960 ― JFK makes ``missile gap" the Presidential campaign issue
1960 ― First Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
1960 ― Earthquake kills one-third of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 seconds
1968 ― Beatles' ``Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy
1988 ― Nazi document implicates Waldheim in WWII deportations