Today's
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29: Leap Day (Leap Year Day, The
Oddest Day): -- Leap Day is a date added to most years that are
divisible by 4, such as 2016, 2020, and 2024. A leap day is added
in various solar calendars (calendars based on the Earth's
revolution around the Sun), including the Gregorian calendar
standard in most of the world. Lunisolar calendars (whose months
are based on the phases of the Moon) instead add a leap or
intercalary month. In the Gregorian calendar, years that are
divisible by 100, but not by 400, do not contain a leap day. Thus,
1700, 1800, and 1900 did not contain a leap day; neither will
2100, 2200, and 2300. Conversely, 1600 and 2000 did and 2400 will.
Years containing a leap day are called leap years. Years not
containing a leap day are called common years. February 29 is the
60th day of the Gregorian calendar in such a year with 306 days
remaining until the end of the year. In the Chinese calendar, this
day will only occur in years of the monkey, dragon, and rat. A
leap day is observed because the Earth's period of orbital
revolution around the Sun takes approximately six hours longer
than 365 whole days. A leap day compensates for this lag,
realigning the calendar with the Earth's position in the Solar
System; otherwise, seasons would occur later than intended in the
calendar year. The Julian calendar used in Christendom until the
16th century added a leap day every four years; but this rule adds
too many days (roughly three every 400 years), making the
equinoxes and solstices shift gradually to earlier dates. By the
16th century the vernal equinox had drifted to March 11, and the
Gregorian calendar was introduced both to shift it back by
omitting several days, and to reduce the number of leap years via
the aforementioned century rule to keep the equinoxes more or less
fixed and the date of Easter consistently close to the vernal
equinox. Leap days can present a particular problem in computing
known as the Leap Year Bug, when February 29 is not handled
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29 (Leap Years): Black History
Month (African American History Month, African American Heritage
Month): -- The last day of Black History Month is observed, an
annual observance originating in the United States. It has
received official recognition from governments in the United
States and Canada, and more recently has been observed in Ireland,
the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. It began as a way of
remembering important people and events in the history of the
African diaspora. It is celebrated in February in the United
States and Canada, while in Ireland, the Netherlands, and the
United Kingdom it is observed in October. African American History
Month is a vibrant celebration that highlights the rich cultural
aspects of African Americans. This month-long observance
recognizes the impact of African American culture on various
aspects of American life, including art, music, literature, and
cuisine. It's a time for everyone to learn and appreciate the
diverse and profound influence that African Americans have had on
shaping the nation's history and identity! This celebration honors
the achievements and contributions of African Americans throughout
history. It's a moment to reflect on the struggles and triumphs of
past generations, acknowledging their perseverance and impact on
society. This month emphasizes the importance of understanding
African American history as an integral part of American history.
Through this recognition, we honor those who have fought for
equality and justice, inspiring future generations to continue the
journey toward a more inclusive and equitable society. Black
History Month is not just about looking back; it's about fostering
a more inclusive future. The celebration encourages a deeper
appreciation of cultural diversity and promotes understanding and
respect among different communities. It's a reminder of the
ongoing efforts to achieve equality and the importance of
continuing to support and uplift African American voices and
stories in all areas of life. Black History Month started as a
week-long celebration known as "Negro History Week" in
1926. Carter G. Woodson, a prominent African American historian,
launched this initiative to emphasize the significant
contributions of African Americans to U.S. history, which were
often overlooked. A week in February was chosen to honor the
birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, both
influential figures in the fight against slavery. In 1976, during
the United States bicentennial, the celebration expanded to a
month. This change allowed more time for educational activities
and events to highlight African American achievements and culture.
Since then, every president has endorsed February as Black History
Month. This month-long observance encourages schools, communities,
and institutions to organize events and share knowledge about
African American history. Black History Month recognizes and
honors the rich cultural heritage and contributions of African
Americans. It provides an opportunity for reflection, education,
and celebration of the diverse stories and accomplishments that
shape American history. This month helps to ensure that the
legacies of African American leaders, artists, and activists
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1504: The Age Of Discovery
(The Age Of Exploration): The Voyages Of Christopher Columbus: The
Fourth Voyage Of Christopher Columbus: The March 1504 Lunar
Eclipse: -- Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar
eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him
with supplies. After his ships were damaged in a storm off the
coast of Cuba, they were beached in St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica on June
25, 1503. For one year Columbus and his men remained stranded on
Jamaica. A Spaniard, Diego Mendez, and some natives paddled a
canoe to get help from Hispaniola. The governor, Nicolas de Ovando
y Caceres, detested Columbus and obstructed all efforts to rescue
him and his men. In the meantime Columbus, in a desperate effort
to induce the natives to continue provisioning him and his hungry
men, won their favor by predicting a lunar eclipse for February
29, 1504, using Abraham Zacuto's astronomical charts. Help finally
arrived, no thanks to the governor, on June 29, 1504, when a
rescue caravel from Santo Domingo arrived at St Ann's Bay, and
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1736: #BOTD: #HBD! Ann Lee,
commonly known as Mother Ann Lee, the founding leader of the
American branch of the United Society Of Believers In Christ's
Second Appearing, better known as The Shakers (d. September 8,
1784) is #born in Manchester, England. After nearly two decades of
participation in the original England branch of The United Society
Of Believers In Christ's Second Appearing, the religious movement
that became known as the Shakers, Ann Lee and a small group of her
followers emigrated to New York in 1774. After several years, they
gathered at Niskayuna, renting land from the Manor of
Rensselaerswyck, Albany County, New York (the area now called
Colonie). They worshiped by ecstatic dancing or "shaking",
which resulted in them being dubbed the Shakers. Ann Lee preached
to the public and led the Shaker church at a time when few women
were religious leaders. Ann Lee died at Watervliet (modern
Colonie), New York, having become frail after suffering attacks by
violent mobs. She is buried in the Shaker cemetery located in the
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1792: #BOTD: #HBD! Gioachino
Rossini, Italian Romantic pianist and composer who gained fame for
his 39 operas (d. November 13, 1868) is #born Gioachino Antonio
Rossini in Pesaro, a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy that was
then part of the Papal States, to parents who were both musicians:
his father a trumpeter, his mother a singer. In addition to
composing operas, he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and
piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards for both
comic and serious opera before retiring from large-scale
composition while still in his thirties, at the height of his
popularity. Rossini began to compose by the age of 12 and was
educated at music school in Bologna. His first opera was performed
in Venice in 1810 when he was 18 years old. In 1815 he was engaged
to write operas and manage theatres in Naples. In the period
1810-1823 he wrote 34 operas for the Italian stage that were
performed in Venice, Milan, Ferrara, Naples and elsewhere; this
productivity necessitated an almost formulaic approach for some
components (such as overtures) and a certain amount of
self-borrowing. During this period he produced his most popular
works including the comic operas L'italiana in Algeri, Il barbiere
di Siviglia (known in English as The Barber of Seville) and La
Cenerentola, which brought to a peak the opera buffa tradition he
inherited from masters such as Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni
Paisiello. He also composed opera seria works such as Otello,
Tancredi and Semiramide. All of these attracted admiration for
their innovation in melody, harmonic and instrumental colour, and
dramatic form. In 1824 he was contracted by the Opera in Paris,
for which he produced an opera to celebrate the coronation of
Charles X, Il viaggio a Reims (later cannibalised for his first
opera in French, Le comte Ory), revisions of two of his Italian
operas, Le siege de Corinthe and Moise, and in 1829 his last
opera, Guillaume Tell. Rossini's withdrawal from opera for the
last 40 years of his life has never been fully explained;
contributary factors may have been ill-health, the wealth his
success had brought him, and the rise of spectacular grand opera
under composers such as Giacomo Meyerbeer. From the early 1830s to
1855, when he left Paris and was based in Bologna, Rossini wrote
relatively little. On his return to Paris in 1855 he became
renowned for his musical salons on Saturdays, regularly attended
by musicians and the artistic and fashionable circles of Paris,
for which he wrote the entertaining pieces Peches de vieillesse.
Guests included Franz Liszt, Anton Rubinstein, Giuseppe Verdi,
Meyerbeer and Joseph Joachim. Rossini's last major composition was
his Petite messe solennelle (1863). He died in Paris in 1868.
Gioachino Rossini died in Passy, Paris at the age of seventy-six.
He left his wife Olympe Pelissier, a French artists' model and
courtesan, a life interest in his estate, which after her death,
ten years later, passed to the Commune of Pesaro for the
establishment of a Liceo Musicale, and funded a home for retired
opera singers in Paris. After a funeral service attended by more
than four thousand people at the church of Sainte-Trinite, Paris,
Rossini's body was interred at the Pere Lachaise Cemetery. In 1887
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1796: The Age Of
Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of
Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment:
The American Revolution: The American Revolutionary War: The
Aftermath Of The American Revolution: The Presidency Of George
Washington: United Kingdom - United States Treaties: The Jay
Treaty (The Treaty Of Amity, Commerce, And Navigation, Between His
Britannic Majesty And The United States of America; The Jay
Treaty, Jay's Treaty): -- The Jay Treaty between the United States
and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of
peaceful trade between the two nations. Following the American
Revolutionary War and United States independence, Britain ceded
Detroit along with other territory in the area under the treaty,
which established the northern border with Canada. In 1805, fire
destroyed most of the Detroit settlement, which consisted mostly
of wooden buildings. A river warehouse and brick chimneys of the
former wooden homes were the sole structures to survive.
Officially known as "The Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and
Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and the United States of
America", The Jay Treaty, also known as Jay's Treaty, averted
war, resolved issues remaining since the Treaty Of Paris of 1783
(which ended the American Revolutionary War), and facilitated ten
years of peaceful trade between the United States and Britain in
the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars, which began in 1792.
The Treaty was designed by Alexander Hamilton and supported by
President George Washington. It angered France and bitterly
divided Americans. It led to the formation of two opposing parties
in every state, the pro-Treaty Federalists and the anti-Treaty
Democratic Republicans. The Treaty was negotiated by John Jay and
gained many of the primary American goals. This included the
withdrawal of British Army units from forts in the Northwest
Territory it had refused to relinquish under the Paris Peace
Treaty. The British were retaliating for the United States
reneging on Articles 4 and 6 of the 1783 treaty; American state
courts impeded the collection of debts owed the British creditors
and upheld the continued confiscation of Loyalist estates in spite
of an explicit undertaking that the prosecutions would be
immediately discontinued. The parties agreed that disputes over
wartime debts and the American-Canadian boundary were to be sent
to arbitration-one of the first major uses of arbitration in
modern diplomatic history, which set the precedent used by other
nations. The Americans were granted limited rights to trade with
British colonies in the Caribbean in exchange for some limits on
the American export of cotton. The Jay treaty was signed on
November 19, 1794, and submitted to the United States Senate for
its advice and consent the following June. It was ratified by the
Senate on June 24, 1795 by a two-thirds majority vote of 20-10
(the exact number necessary for concurrence). It was also ratified
by the British government, and took effect February 29, 1796, the
day when ratifications were officially exchanged. The treaty was
hotly contested by the Jeffersonians in each state. An effort was
made to block it in the House which ultimately failed. The
Jeffersonians feared that closer economic or political ties with
Great Britain would strengthen Hamilton's Federalist Party,
promote aristocracy, and undercut republicanism. This debate
crystallized the emerging partisan divisions and shaped the new
"First Party System", with the Federalists favoring the
British and the Jeffersonian republicans favoring France. The
treaty was for ten years' duration. Efforts failed to agree on a
replacement treaty in 1806 when Jefferson rejected the
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February 29, 1840: #BOTD: #HBD! William
Harvey Carney, African American Sergeant for the Union during the
American Civil War, awarded the Medal Of Honor in 1900 for his
gallantry in saving the regimental colors during the Battle Of
Fort Wagner in 1863 (the action for which he received the Medal Of
Honor preceded that of any other African American Medal Of Honor
recipient; however, his medal was actually one of the last to be
awarded for Civil War service, though some African Americans
received the Medal Of Honor as early as April 1865 (d. December 9,
1908) is #born as a slave in Norfolk, Virginia. How he made his
way to freedom is not certain. According to most accounts, he
escaped through the Underground Railroad, and joined his father in
Massachusetts. Other members of their family were freed by
purchase or by the death of their master. After his discharge,
Carney returned to New Bedford, Massachusetts, and took a job
maintaining the city's streetlights. He spent a few years in
California, then returned again in 1869. He then delivered mail
for thirty-two years. He was a founding vice president of the New
Bedford Branch 18 of the National Association of Letter Carriers,
in 1890. He married Susannah Williams, and they had a daughter,
Clara Heronia. On May 23, 1900, Sergeant William Harvey Carney is
at last awarded the Medal Of Honor for his heroism in the July 18,
1863 assault on Fort Wagner in Charleston, South Carolina as a
memeber of the African American 54th Regiment Massachusetts
Volunteer Infantry, which he had joined four months prior in March
1963. When the color guard (a prestigious detachment of soldiers
assigned to the protection of regimental colours and the national
flag) was killed, Carney retrieved the U.S. flag and marched
forward with it, despite serious wounds. When the Union troops
were forced to retreat under fire, he struggled back across the
battlefield, eventually returning to his own lines and turning
over the colors to another survivor of the 54th, saying, "Boys,
I only did my duty; the old flag never touched the ground!"
He was promoted from private to sergeant in recognition of his
heroism. This action for which he received the Medal Of Honor
preceded that of any other African American Medal Of Honor
recipient; however, his medal was actually one of the last to be
awarded for Civil War service. Carney received his Medal Of Honor
nearly 37 years after the events at Fort Wagner (more than half of
such awards from the Civil War were presented 20 or more years
after the fact). In 1901, shortly after his medal was awarded, a
song was published about his daring exploits: "Boys The Old
Flag Never Touched The Ground". William Harvey Carney died at
the Boston City Hospital aged 68 of complications from an elevator
accident at the Massachusetts State House, where he worked for the
Department of State. His body lay in repose for one day at the
undertaking rooms of Walden Banks, 142 Lenox Street, at the wish
of his wife and daughter. He was buried in the family plot at Oak
Grove Cemetery in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Engraved on his
tombstone is an image of the Medal Of Honor. A New Bedford,
Massachusetts, elementary school was named in his honor, and his
New Bedford home at 128 Mill Street is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places. His statue, along with Private Milton
L. Olive, is seen on the African American Medal Of Honor
Recipients Memorial in Wilmington, Delaware. Sgt. Carney's statue
is also prominently featured in his hometown at West Point
Cemetery (Norfolk, Virginia), atop a monument to African American
Civil War and Spanish American War veterans. In 2015, Carney was
honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Strong Men &
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February 29, 1904: #BOTD: #HBD! Jimmy
Dorsey, American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer and big
band leader (The Dorsey Brothers and The California Ramblers) (d.
June 12, 1957) is #born James Francis Dorsey in Shenandoah,
Pennsylvania. Known as JD, Jimmy Dorsey recorded and composed the
jazz and pop standards "I'm Glad There Is You (In This World
of Ordinary People)" and "It's The Dreamer In Me".
His other major recordings were "Tailspin", "John
Silver", "So Many Times", "Amapola",
"Brazil (Aquarela do Brasil)", "Pennies from
Heaven" with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, and Frances
Langford, "Grand Central Getaway", and "So Rare".
Jimmy Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, the son of a
coal miner turned music teacher, and older brother of Tommy Dorsey
who also became a prominent musician. He played trumpet in his
youth, appearing on stage with J. Carson McGee's King Trumpeters
in 1913. During his early days as a musician, Jimmy Dorsey
performed with various other ensembles and artists including the
Scranton Sirens, The California Ramblers, Red Nichols, Jean
Goldkette, Ben Pollack, and Paul Whiteman. With his brother Tommy
playing trombone, he formed Dorsey's Novelty Six, one of the first
jazz bands to broadcast. In 1924 he joined the California Ramblers
(who were based in New York City). He did much freelance radio and
recording work throughout the 1920s. The brothers also appeared as
session musicians on many seminal jazz recordings with Bix
Beiderbecke, Gene Krupa, Red Nichols and others. He joined Ted
Lewis's band in 1930, with whom he toured Europe. After returning
to the United States, he worked briefly with Rudy Vallee and
several other bandleaders, in addition to the Dorsey Brothers
Orchestra with Tommy. He appeared on at least seventy-five radio
broadcasts (many with his brother), as a member of Nathaniel
Shilkret's orchestra on programs such as the 1932 program, "The
Music That Satisfies," also known as the Chesterfield Quarter
Hour. Future bandleader Glenn Miller was a member of the Dorsey
Brothers Orchestra in 1934 and 1935, composing "Annie's
Cousin Fanny", "Tomorrow's Another Day", "Harlem
Chapel Chimes", and "Dese Dem Dose", all recorded
for Decca, for the band. Tommy left the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra
to form his own band in 1935 after a musical dispute with Jimmy.
The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra became the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra,
and included musicians such as Bobby Byrne, Ray McKinley, Donald
Matteson and Skeets Herfurt along with vocalists Bob Eberly and
Kay Weber. In 1939 Jimmy hired Helen O'Connell as his female
singer. She and Eberly possessed a "boy and girl next door"
charm and their pairing produced several of the band's biggest
hits. Many of the Eberly-O'Connell recordings were arranged in an
unusual 3-section "a-b-c" format. The three-part format
was reportedly developed at the insistence of a record producer
who wanted to feature both singers and the full band in a single
3-minute 78 rpm recording. Eberly sang the first minute, usually
as a slow romantic ballad, the next minute featured the full band
backing Jimmy's saxophone, and the last minute was sung by
O'Connell in a more up-tempo style, sometimes with lyrics in
Spanish. Kitty Kallen sang with the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra
following Helen O'Connell's departure in 1942. Jerry Lewis' first
wife Patti Palmer (birth name Esther Calonico) was a singer with
his orchestra for less than a year, starting about 1944. Jimmy
Dorsey playing alto saxophone in The Fabulous Dorseys (1947).
Jimmy continued leading his own band until the early 1950s. In
1949 he and Jane Porter were divorced. In 1953 he joined Tommy's
Orchestra, renamed "Tommy Dorsey and his Orch. featuring
Jimmy Dorsey". On December 26, 1953, the brothers and their
orchestra appeared on Jackie Gleason's CBS television program. The
success of that television appearance led Gleason to produce a
weekly variety program, Stage Show, hosted by the brothers on CBS
from 1954 to 1956. Elvis Presley appeared on six of the telecasts.
These were Presley's first appearances on national TV. Jimmy took
over leadership of the orchestra after Tommy's death. Jimmy
survived his brother by only a few months and died of throat
cancer, aged 53, in New York City. At the time of his death,
Jimmy's final hit song, "So Rare", reached the
number-two spot on the Billboard charts, becoming the
highest-charting song by a big band during the first decade of the
rock-and-roll era. With an arrangement heavily influenced by R &
B saxophonist Earl Bostic, it marked Dorsey's attempt to
acknowledge rock music and marked a significant departure from his
earlier work. This final recording sold 500,000 copies and earned
him a gold record. Jimmy Dorsey's other major recordings were
"Tailspin", "John Silver", "So Many
Times", "Amapola", "Brazil (Aquarela do
Brasil)", "Pennies from Heaven" with Bing Crosby,
Louis Armstrong, and Frances Langford, "Grand Central
Getaway", and "So Rare". He is buried at
Tallahassee National Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Broadcasts
of Jimmy Dorsey and The Fabulous Dorsey Orchestra on NBC Bandstand
survive from December 25, and December 31, 1956. At least two
other extant broadcasts from the month of December 1956 are
available as well. Recordings of the band from their winter 1957
tour have not surfaced. These recordings would provide the last
aural evidence of Jimmy Dorsey's work. It is thought that Dorsey's
last appearance was in Joplin, Missouri, on March 12, 1957.
Shortly before his death, he was awarded a gold record for "So
Rare" which was recorded on November 11, 1956. There is a
controversy over who played the alto solo on the recording of "So
Rare", Dick Stabile or Jimmy Dorsey. It reached the
number-two spot on the Billboard charts, becoming the highest
charting song by a big band during the first decade of the
rock-and-roll era. Jimmy Dorsey is considered one of the most
important and influential alto saxophone players of the Big Band
and Swing era, and also after that era. Jazz saxophonists Lester
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February 29, 1916: #BOTD: #HBD: James B.
Donovan, American lawyer, United States Navy officer in the Office
of Scientific Research and Development and the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS, predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency),
Distinguished Intelligence Medal recipient (d. January 19, 1970)
is #born James Britt Donovan in the Bronx, New York. Donovan
ultimately became general counsel of the OSS, and an international
diplomatic negotiator. Donovan is widely known for negotiating the
1960-1962 exchange of captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary
Powers for Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, and for negotiating the 1962
release and return of 9,703 prisoners held by Cuba after the
failed Bay Of Pigs Invasion. Donovan was portrayed by Tom Hanks in
the 2015 feature film Bridge of Spies. He was the son of Harriet
(nee O'Connor), a piano teacher, and John J. Donovan, a surgeon.
His brother was New York state senator John J. Donovan Jr. Both
sides of the family were of Irish descent. He attended the
Catholic All Hallows Institute. In 1933, he began his studies at
Fordham University, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree
in English in 1937. He wanted to become a journalist but his
father convinced him to study law at Harvard Law School, beginning
in autumn of 1937, where he completed his Bachelor of Laws degree
in 1940. After graduating from law school, Donovan started work at
a private lawyer's office. He was a commander in the Navy during
World War II. In 1942, he became associate general counsel at the
Office of Scientific Research and Development. From 1943 to 1945,
he was general counsel at the Office of Strategic Services. In
1945, he became assistant to Justice Robert H. Jackson at the
Nuremberg trials in Germany. Donovan was the presenter of visual
evidence at the trial. While he prepared for the trials he also
worked as an advisor for the documentary feature The Nazi Plan. In
1950, Donovan became a partner in the New York-based law office of
Watters and Donovan, specializing in insurance law. In 1957,
Donovan defended the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in what was known as
the Hollow Nickel Case after many other lawyers refused. He later
brought in Thomas M. Debevoise to assist him. Abel was convicted
at trial, but Donovan was successful in persuading the court not
to impose a death sentence. He appealed Abel's case to the Supreme
Court, which in Abel v. United States rejected by a 5-4 vote
Donovan's argument that evidence used against his client had been
seized by the FBI in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Chief
Justice of the United States Earl Warren praised him and publicly
expressed the "gratitude of the entire court" for his
taking the case. In 1962, Donovan, who was lead negotiator, and
CIA lawyer Milan C. Miskovsky negotiated with Soviet mediators to
free captured American pilot Francis Gary Powers. Donovan
successfully negotiated for the exchange of Powers, along with
American student Frederic Pryor, for the still-imprisoned Rudolf
Abel, whom Donovan had defended five years earlier. This
negotiation and preceding events were dramatized by the 2015
historical thriller Bridge of Spies, by Steven Spielberg. In June
1962, Donovan was contacted by Cuban exile Perez Cisneros, who
asked him to support the negotiations to free the 1,113 prisoners
of the failed Bay Of Pigs Invasion. Donovan offered pro bono legal
service for the Cuban Families Committee of prisoners' relatives.
A few months later, he traveled to Cuba for the first time.
Donovan managed to create confidence with Castro, who was pleased
Donovan brought his (Donovan's) teenage son with him to Cuba. On
December 21, 1962, Castro and Donovan signed an agreement to
exchange all 1,113 prisoners for $53 million in food and medicine,
sourced from private donations and from companies expecting tax
concessions. Donovan had the idea to exchange the prisoners for
medicine after he had found out that the Cuban medicine didn't
help him with his own bursitis. By the end of the negotiations,
July 3, 1963, Donovan had secured the release of 9,703 men, women
and children from Cuban detention. Donovan was once again teamed
up with CIA lawyer Milan C. Miskovsky on these negotiations. For
his work, Donovan received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal.
From 1961 to 1963, Donovan was vice president of the New York
Board of Education, and from 1963 until 1965, he was the president
of the board. In June 1962, his alma mater Fordham presented
Donovan with an honorary degree. In 1962, he was the Democratic
nominee for U.S. Senate in New York but lost in November 1962 to
Republican incumbent Jacob K. Javits. In 1968, Donovan was
appointed president of Pratt Institute. He died of a heart attack
on January 19, 1970, in Brooklyn's Methodist Hospital in New York,
after being treated for influenza. In 1941, Donovan married Mary
E. McKenna. The couple had a son and three daughters, and lived in
Brooklyn, New York while also maintaining seasonal residences in
Spring Lake, New Jersey and Lake Placid, NY, where Donovan is
buried alongside his wife and daughter. He was a rare book
collector, golfer, tennis player and gin rummy player. A
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1916: #BOTD: #HBD! Dinah
Shore, American singer, actress, television personality and
beauty, the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s (d. 1994) is
#born Fannye Rose Shore. She rose to prominence as a recording
artist during the Big Band era, but achieved even greater success
a decade later, in television, mainly as hostess of a series of
variety programs for Chevrolet. After failing singing auditions
for the bands of Benny Goodman, and both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey,
Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era
to achieve huge solo success. She had a string of 80 charted
popular hits, spanning 1940-1957, and after appearing in a handful
of feature films, she went on to a four-decade career in American
television, starring in her own music and variety shows from 1951
through 1963 and hosting two talk shows in the 1970s. TV Guide
ranked her at number 16 on their list of the top 50 television
stars of all time. Stylistically, Shore was compared to two
singers who followed her in the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s,
Doris Day and Patti Page. Dinah Shore died of ovarian cancer at
her home in Beverly Hills, California five days before her 78th
birthday. Her body was cremated the same day. Some of the ashes
were interred in two memorial sites: the Hillside Memorial Park
Cemetery in Culver City, California, and Forest Lawn Cemetery ub
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1920: The Aftermath Of World
War I: Revolutions Of 1917-1923: The Interwar Period (The
Interbellum, Between The Wars): The History Of Czechoslovakia
(1918-1938): The First Czechoslovak Republic (The First Republic):
The Constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic: The Czechoslovak
Constitution Of 1920 ( The Constitution Of 1920): -- The
Czechoslovak Revolutionary National Assembly adopts the
Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920, establishing itself as a
republic and democracy in the Aftermath Of World War I. The
constitution replaced the provisional constitution adopted on
November 13, 1918. The constitution was modelled after
constitutions of established Western democracies that had stood
the test of time. Among its most notable influences were those of
the United Kingdom, United States and France. The system of
government the constitution introduced made Czechoslovakia the
most westernized of all of the central and eastern European
nations on the verge of World War I. The constitution created a
parliament but also a president and cabinet, sharing powers of
executive branch. Beneath them was a judiciary that was advanced
with many levels of courts delegated for various types of cases.
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1928: #BOTD: #HBD! Tempest
Storm, burlesque star, model, exotic dancer, motion picture
actress and beauty, known as "The Queen Of Exotic Dancers"
(d. April 20, 2021) is #born Annie Blanche Banks in Eastman,
Georgia. Tempest Storm is, along with Lili St. Cyr, Sally Rand,
and Blaze Starr, one of the best-known burlesque performers of the
1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Her career as an exotic dancer spanned
more than 60 years and she was still performing in the early 21st
century. She left school in seventh grade, and in 2016, she
recalled that she had been sexually abused at that approximate
time in her life. At 14, she worked as a waitress in Columbus,
Georgia, where she quickly married a U.S. Marine in order to
emancipate herself from her parents, and had the marriage annulled
after 24 hours. At 15, she married a Columbus shoe salesman, whose
sister worked with her at a hosiery mill. Storm said in a 1968
interview with film reviewer Roger Ebert that after six months in
that marriage, "I just left one day. I still had it in my
mind to go to Hollywood. I couldn't get it out of my system."
In Los Angeles circa 1945 at age 17, Storm worked as a carhop
waitress at Simon's Drive-In and then as a cocktail waitress,
though still underage. A patron suggested she consider striptease
as a profession, and arranged an audition with Follies Theater
talent manager Lillian Hunt. Three weeks after being hired as a
chorus dancer at 40 USD a week, Storm accepted a promotion to 60
USD as a stripper. A week afterward, she recalled in 1968, Hunt
said a stage name was needed: "I asked her if she had any
suggestions. She said, what about Tempest Storm? I asked her if
she had any other suggestions. Well, she said, what about Sunny
Day? Well, I said, I guess it might as well be Tempest Storm."
Annie Blanche Banks legally changed her name to Tempest Storm in
1957, one of the few strippers to have done so. Storm was a
regular performer for many years at El Rey, a burlesque theater in
Oakland, California, as well as at clubs around the United States,
including in Las Vegas. She was featured in numerous men's
magazines and burlesque movies, including French Peep Show (1950),
Paris After Midnight (1951), Striptease Girl (1952), Teaserama
(1955), and Buxom Beautease (1956). In 1953, she moved to
Portland, Oregon, and worked at the Star Theater. A few months
later she moved to the Capital Theater down the street after her
then-husband, John Becker, bought it. The owner of the Star then
brought Becker's ex-wife, and rival burlesque star, Arabelle Andre
to the Star to perform as "John's Other Wife". This
sparked a "burlesque war" that made it into the pages of
Life magazine on November 30, 1953. In 1954, Storm was restrained
from billing herself as the 50K USD Hollywood Treasure Chest,
following a successful suit brought by the Treasure Chest Girl
Evelyn West. Storm told her life story to writer Bill Boyd, whose
transcriptions of her dictations formed the 1987 book Tempest
Storm: The Lady Is a Vamp. She was inducted into the Burlesque
Hall of Fame, where one of her G-strings is part of the museum's
display. Storm officially retired from regular performance in 1995
at the age of 67, but has done occasional stage performances
since. In 1999, she stripped in San Francisco's O'Farrell Theatre
to mark the club's 30-year anniversary. Mayor Willie Brown
declared a "Tempest Storm Day" in her honor. She also
performed at the annual Burlesque Hall of Fame Pageant events at
least through 2010. She appears in the 2016 Nimisha Mukerji's
documentary film Tempest Storm.She was married four times, once to
Herb Jeffrie,s an actor of film and television as well as a
popular music and jazz singer-songwriter, known for his baritone
voice, with whom she had a daughter. From at least 2008 until her
death, Storm resided in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she died aged 93
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1936: The Interwar Period
(The Interbellum, Between The Wars): Attempted Coups In Japan: The
October Incident (The Imperial Colors Incident): The February 26
Incident (The 2-26 Incident) (Japanese: Ni Ni-Roku Jiken): --
Faced with overwhelming opposition as the Japanese army moves
against them, the radical Imperial Way Faction (Kodoha) coup
members, a group of young Imperial Japanese Army officers who
intended to purge the government and military leadership of their
factional rivals and ideological opponents, surrender as a result
of internal military opposition and the anger of the Emperor. The
February 26 Incident was initially successful, as the rebels
succeeded in assassinating several leading officials (including
two former prime ministers) and in occupying the government center
of Tokyo. However, they failed to assassinate Prime Minister
Keisuke Okada or secure control of the Imperial Palace. Their
supporters in the army made attempts to capitalize on their
actions, but divisions within the military, combined with Imperial
anger at the coup generally and Hirohito's great anger
particularly, meant they were unable to achieve a change of
government. Unlike earlier examples of political violence by young
officers, the coup attempt had severe consequences. After a series
of closed trials, 19 of the uprising's leaders were executed for
mutiny and another 40 imprisoned. The Imperial Way Faction lost
its influence within the army, the period of "government by
assassination" came to a close, and the military increased
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1940: First African
Americans: -- For her performance as "Mammy" in Gone
With The Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American
to win an Academy Award. Hattie McDaniel, African American
actress, singer, songwriter, and comedian, first African American
to win an Academy Award, first Black woman to sing on radio in the
United States (June 10, 1889 - October 26, 1952) was born to
formerly-enslaved parents in Wichita, Kansas. She won her Oscar in
1940 for Best Supporting Actress in her role as 'Mammy' in Gone
With The Wind. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975, and
in 2006 she became the first Black Oscar winner honored with a
U.S. postage stamp. In 2010, she was inducted into the Colorado
Women's Hall of Fame. In addition to acting, McDaniel recorded 16
blues sides between 1926 and 1929 and was a radio performer and
television personality. Although she appeared in more than 300
films, she received on screen credits for only 83. McDaniel
experienced racism and racial segregation throughout her career,
and was unable to attend the premiere of Gone With The Wind in
Atlanta because it was held at a whites-only theater. At the
Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles, she sat at a segregated table at
the side of the room. In 1952, McDaniel died due to breast cancer.
Her final wish to be buried in Hollywood Cemetery was denied due
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1944: World War II: World
War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater
Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The
New Guinea Campaign: The Admiralty Islands Campaign (Operation
Brewer): -- The Admiralty Islands Campaign begins as four waves of
The United States 1st Cavalry Division led by General Douglas
MacArthur land at Los Negros, the third-largest island in the
group. By using a small, isolated beach where the Japanese had not
anticipated an assault, the force achieved tactical surprise, but
the islands proved to be far from unoccupied. A furious battle
over the islands ensued. The Admiralty Islands Campaign was a
series of battles in the New Guinea Campaign of World War II in
which the United States Army's 1st Cavalry Division took the
Japanese-held Admiralty Islands. Acting on reports from airmen
that there were no signs of enemy activity and the islands might
have been evacuated, General Douglas MacArthur accelerated his
timetable for capturing the Admiralties and ordered an immediate
reconnaissance in force. The chosen landing site was a small beach
on the south shore of Hyane Harbour near the Momote airstrip. The
airstrip could be seized quickly; but the surrounding area was
mangrove swamp, and the harbour entrance was only about 750 yards
(700 m) wide. The gamble paid off. The Japanese had not
anticipated a landing at this point and the bulk of their forces
were concentrated to defend the beaches of Seeadler Harbour, on
the other side of the island. The weather was overcast with a low
cloud ceiling that prevented most of the planned air strike. Only
three B-24s and nine B-25s found the target. The naval bombardment
was therefore extended for another 15 minutes. Each APD
(High-speed transport destroyers; hull classification symbol APD
["AP" for transport, "D" for destroyer])
lowered four LCPRs (Landing Craft, Personnel, Ramped). Each LCPR
carried its maximum load of 37 men, who boarded by climbing over
the APDs' sides and down cargo nets. The unarmoured LCPRs were
still used because davits on the APD had not been strengthened to
carry the heavier, armoured LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle,
Personnel). The first wave landed without casualties at 08:17, but
once the bombardment lifted the Japanese emerged from their
dugouts and machine guns and shore batteries began firing. The
landing craft, on returning, came under crossfire from enemy
machine guns on both sides of the harbour. The fire became so
heavy the second wave was forced to reverse course until the enemy
fire was suppressed by destroyers. The third and fourth waves also
came under fire. In the end, air superiority and command of the
sea allowed the Allies to heavily reinforce their position on Los
Negros. The 1st Cavalry Division could then overrun the islands.
The campaign officially ended on May 18, 1944. The Allied victory
completed the isolation of the major Japanese base at Rabaul that
was the ultimate objective of the Allied campaigns of 1942 and
1943. A major air and naval base was developed in the Admiralty
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1988: The History Of South
Africa: Racial Segregation: Apartheid (Racial Segregation In South
Africa): The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC): The Final
Years Of Apartheid: -- South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is
arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day
anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town. Earlier in the month,
the government had banned 17 black or multi-racial organisations,
including the United Democratic Front (UDF), and restricted the
activities of trade unions. Church leaders organised a protest
march, and after that too was banned they established the
Committee for the Defense of Democracy. When the group's rally was
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Today, February 28, 2026
February 29, 1908: #DOTD: Pat Garrett,
American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent who became
renowned for killing Billy The Kid (b. June 5, 1850) #dies in Las
Cruces, New Mexico aged 57 under strange circumstances. Pat
Garrett was born Patrick Floyd Jarvis Garrett in Chambers County,
Alabama. After Sheriff Pat Garrett had captured Billy The Kid,
known then by the alias William H. Bonney (real name: Henry
McCarty) in December 1880 at Stinking Springs, New Mexico on an
arrest warrant fo murder, Bonney was tried and convicted of the
murder of Lincoln County Sheriff William J. Brady in April 1881.
He was sentenced to hang in May of that year. He escaped from jail
on April 28, 1881, killing two sheriff's deputies in the process
and evading capture for more than two months. Garrett shot and
killed Bonney, aged 21, in Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881. On
February 29, "the oddest day of the year", 1908, Garrett
himself was shot dead during a wagon trip in New Mexico. Jesse
Wayne Brazel, with whom Garret's son Dudley had a contentious land
lease, told Deputy Sheriff Felipe Lucero "Lock me up. I've
just killed Pat Garrett!" Brazel then pointed to Garrett's
companion on the wagon trip, Carl Adamson, and said, "He saw
the whole thing and knows that I shot in self-defense." The
site of Garrett's death is now commemorated by a historical marker
south of U.S. Route 70, between Las Cruces, New Mexico and the San
Augustin Pass. The historical marker is located about 1.2 miles
from where Garrett was murdered. In 1940 his son, Jarvis Garrett,
marked the spot with a monument consisting of concrete laid around
a stone with a cross carved in it. The cross is believed to be the
work of Garrett's mother. Scratched in the concrete is "P.
Garrett" and the date of his killing. The marker is located
in the desert. In 2020, the city of Las Cruces revealed plans for
a development that would destroy the site. An organization called
Friends of Pat Garrett has been formed to ensure that the city
preserves the site and marker. At six feet five inches, Garrett's
body was too tall for any finished coffins available, so a special
one had to be shipped in from El Paso. His funeral service was
held March 5, 1908, and he was laid to rest next to his daughter,
Ida, who had died in 1896 at the age of fifteen. Garrett's grave
and the graves of his descendants are in the Masonic Cemetery, Las
Cruces. Brazel's trial for Garrett's murder concluded on May 4,
1909. Brazel was represented at his trial by attorney and future
Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall. The only eyewitness
to Garrett's murder, Adamson, never appeared at the trial, which
lasted only one day and ended with an acquittal. Despite his
confession, and subsequent trial, debate continues over who
actually pulled the trigger. A couple years after the killing,
Brazel married and acquired a small ranch just west of the nearby
small city of Lordsburg. In his late thirties when his wife died
in 1913, he sold the property and disappeared from public record.
The period and circumstances of his death remain unconfirmed, but
word of mouth has indicated that it may have been two years later.
A little over thirty years later, in early July 1947, his nephew
William "Mac" Brazel gained certain fame in the
so-called Roswell UFO incident when he allegedly found strange
debris on his ranch some 70 miles northwest of Roswell, sparking
the claim that a flying saucer crashed on the ranch where Brazel
was foreman.
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Today, February 28, 2026February 29, 1960: #DOTD: #RIP: Melvin
Purvis, American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) agent (b. October 24, 1903) #dies at his home
in Florence, South Carolina of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to
the head from the pistol that was given to him by fellow agents
when he resigned from the FBI. The FBI investigated his death and
declared it a suicide, although the official coroner's report did
not label the cause of death as such. A later investigation
suggested that Purvis may have shot himself accidentally while
trying to extract a tracer bullet jammed in the pistol, which is
unlikely considering his skill with firearms. He was 56 years old.
Given the nickname "Little Mel" because of his short, 5
ft 4 in frame, Purvis became noted for leading the manhunts that
captured bank robbers such as Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger,
and Pretty Boy Floyd, but his high public profile was resented by
local law enforcement. Purvis asserted he had killed Floyd
single-handed, others variously claimed that Floyd had been
already wounded, or even that Purvis had ordered Floyd summarily
shot dead for refusing to provide information. Purvis had the
reputation of using very tough methods against recalcitrant
interviewees. Roger Touhy, a minor-league gangster who was
arrested as Purvis fought the huge Capone organisation during
Prohibition, alleged he suffered the loss of 25 lbs of body weight
and several teeth plus broken vertebrae due to being beaten every
time he fell asleep during weeks of questioning by Purvis's men.
Purvis became the FBI's golden boy, having captured more of
designated public enemies than any other agent, but found himself
sidelined after he began to enjoy better press than J. Edgar
Hoover. Purvis was born in Timmonsville, South Carolina, to Melvin
Horace Purvis, Sr. (1869-1938), a tobacco farmer and businessman,
and Janie Elizabeth (nee Mims, 1874-1927); he was the fifth of
eight siblings. Purvis was a well-educated man, and known to be a
crack shot. He received his law degree from the University of
South Carolina School of Law and had a brief career as a lawyer.
Purvis was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order while attending South
Carolina. He joined the FBI in 1927 and headed the Division of
Investigation offices in Birmingham, Oklahoma City, and
Cincinnati. In 1932, he was placed in charge of the Chicago office
by Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover. Purvis led
the manhunts that tracked outlaws Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy
Floyd, and most famously John Dillinger, which ended in Chicago on
July 22, 1934. However, after Purvis became a media figure for
this feat, Hoover claimed that Purvis had been demoted and agent
Samuel P. Cowley had been put in charge of the Dillinger case.
Cowley was later shot by Baby Face Nelson, and Purvis visited him
in the hospital shortly before he died. Purvis was praised for his
actions. He reportedly incurred the wrath of Hoover, who had
previously supported him but now supposedly felt overshadowed. In
a 2005 book co-authored by Purvis's son Alston, Hoover is
portrayed as jealous of the attention given to Purvis after
Dillinger was killed. At least one of Purvis's official accounts
of his exploits was later called into question. Purvis's story of
the death of Pretty Boy Floyd indicated that Purvis and his agents
had killed him with no assistance from local law enforcement. This
was later disputed by Chester Smith, an officer with the East
Liverpool, Ohio police (Hoover would later state Smith had shot
Floyd first). Officer Smith said that Purvis and his agents never
fired until after Purvis had attempted to question Floyd. After
Floyd responded with curses, Purvis ordered Agent Herman "Ed"
Hollis to shoot Floyd, who was lying wounded on the ground. This
claim was discounted later by retired FBI Agent Winfred E. Hopton,
who wrote in a 1976 letter to TIME that local law enforcement,
including Captain Smith, weren't even present until after Floyd
had died. Of course, this version conflicts with the one from
local authorities which has Smith initially wounding Floyd.
Neither claim has been clearly proven. Purvis resigned from the
FBI in 1935 and afterwards practiced law. In 1937, he became
engaged to actress Janice Jarratt, but they never married. He
later married Marie Rosanne Willcox, and they had three sons. In
1936, Purvis published a memoir of his years as an investigator
with the Bureau, entitled American Agent. Purvis served in the
United States Army as an intelligence officer during World War II,
reaching the rank of colonel. He assisted with compiling evidence
against Nazi leaders in the Nuremberg trials.
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Today, February 28, 2026February 29, 1940: The European Civil
War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater
Of World War II): The Winter War (The Russo-Finnish War): --
Finland initiates peace negotiations with the USSR. On November
30, 1939, The Winter War began as twenty Russian divisions of
Soviet forces crossed the Finnish border in several places and
bombed Helsinki and several other Finnish cities three months
after the outbreak of World War II. It ended with the signing of
the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. The League Of Nations
deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from the
League on December 14, 1939. Though also known as the
Russo-Finnish War, the Winter War was one of four Russo-Finnish
Wars between 1917 to 1944. Despite superior military strength,
especially in tanks and aircraft, the Soviet Union suffered severe
losses and initially made little headway. The Soviets had made
several demands, including that Finland cede substantial border
territories in exchange for land elsewhere, claiming security
reasons - primarily the protection of Leningrad, 32 km (20 mi)
from the Finnish border. When Finland refused, the Soviets
invaded. Most sources conclude that the Soviet Union had intended
to conquer all of Finland, and cite the establishment of the
puppet Finnish Communist government and the Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact's secret protocols as evidence of this, while other sources
argue against the idea of a full Soviet conquest. Finland repelled
Soviet attacks for more than two months and inflicted substantial
losses on the invaders in temperatures as low as -43dg C (-45dg
F). The battles focused mainly on Taipale along the Karelian
Isthmus, on Kollaa in Ladoga Karelia and on Raate Road in Kainuu,
but there were also battles in Salla and Petsamo in Lapland.
Following the initial setbacks, the Soviets reduced their
strategic objectives and put an end to the puppet Finnish
communist government in late January 1940, informing the Finnish
government that they were willing to negotiate peace. After the
Soviet military reorganized and adopted different tactics, they
renewed their offensive in February 1940 and overcame the Finnish
defences on the Karelian Isthmus. This left the Finnish army in
the main theatre of war near the breaking point, with a retreat
seeming inevitable. Consequently, Finnish commander-in-chief Carl
Gustaf Emil Mannerheim urged a peace deal with the Soviets, while
the Finns still retained bargaining power. Hostilities ceased in
March 1940 with the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty in which
Finland ceded 9% of its territory to the Soviet Union. Soviet
losses were heavy, and the country's international reputation
suffered. Their gains exceeded their pre-war demands, and the
Soviets received substantial territories along Lake Ladoga and
further north. Finland retained its sovereignty and enhanced its
international reputation. The poor performance of the Red Army
encouraged German Chancellor Adolf Hitler to believe that an
attack on the Soviet Union would be successful and confirmed
negative Western opinions of the Soviet military. After 15 months
of Interim Peace, in June 1941, Germany commenced Operation
Barbarossa, and the Continuation War between Finland and the
Soviets began.
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Today, February 28, 2026February 29, 2012: #DOTD: #RIP: Davy
Jones, English singer, songwriter, musician, actor, businessman
and teen idol, best known as a member of the band The Monkees, and
for starring in the TV series of the same name (b. December 30,
1945) #dies at Martin Memorial South Hospital in Stuart, Florida
of a heart attack resulting from arteriosclerosis, aged 66. On
March 7, a private funeral service was held at Holy Cross Catholic
parish church in Indiantown. To avoid drawing attention to the
grieving family, the three surviving Monkees did not attend.
Instead, the bandmates attended memorial services in New York City
and organized their own private memorial in Los Angeles along with
Jones' family and close friends. A public memorial service was
held on March 10 in Beavertown, Pennsylvania, near a church Jones
had purchased for future renovation. On March 12, a private
memorial service was held in Jones' home of Openshaw, Manchester,
at Lees Street Congregational Church, where Jones performed as a
child in church plays. Jones' wife and daughters travelled to
England to join his relatives based there for the service, and
placed his ashes on his parents' graves for a time. The news of
Jones' death triggered a surge of Internet traffic, causing sales
of the Monkees' music to increase dramatically. Davy Jones' acting
credits include a Tony-nominated performance as the Artful Dodger
in the original London and Broadway productions of Oliver! as well
as a guest star role in a hallmark episode of The Brady Bunch
television show and later reprised parody film; Love, American
Style; and My Two Dads.
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