What are the important events that happened on February 29, 1940? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 29, 1940: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 29, 1940 is the 60th day of the year 1940 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 306 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 16, 1940 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexacontagon’ day.
If a person born on this day saved a dollar every day starting at age 4, then by now that person has accumulated $29,283.00. (Assuming this person is still alive today.)
Pisces is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Dragon is the mythical animal and Metal is the element for this person if we consider the very old art of Chinese astrology.
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February 29, 1940 Historical Events
- 1940 –Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations
- 1940 –For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award.
- 1940 –In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, because of the war, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden’s Consul General in San Francisco.
Who were born on February 29, 1940?
- 1940 –Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
- 1940 –William H. Turner, Jr. American horse trainer
Who died on February 29, 1940?
- 1940 –Edward Frederic Benson, English writer (b. 1867)
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