Template:Selected anniversaries/February 29: Difference between revisions

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1860: Inventor Herman Hollerith born. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.

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 ||1504: Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies.
-File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1522: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] uses [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]] to predict the birth of [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]].
 ||1600: Caspar Hennenberger dies pastor, historian and cartographer.
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 |link=Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|1940: In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist [[Ernest Lawrence (nonfiction)|Ernest Lawrence]] receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
-File:Hellschreiber.jpg|link=Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|1964: [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber]] teleprinter system used to publish new biography of [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]].
+||1903: Melvin Purvis takes his own life ... FBI agent. Pic.
 ||1972: Vietnam War: Vietnamization: South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam.