About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

Jackson's father died in an accident in February 1767, at the age of 29, three weeks before his son Andrew was born in the Waxhaws area.

Her resignation was effective 29 February 2008.

On the evening of 29 February, Baratieri met with his brigadiers Matteo Albertone, Giuseppe Arimondi, Vittorio Dabormida, and Giuseppe Ellena, concerning their next steps.

On the night of 29 February and the early morning of 1 March three Italian brigades advanced separately towards Adwa over narrow mountain tracks, while a fourth remained camped.

The uprising finally subsided on 29 February.

Mao Zedong meets with President Nixon, February 29, 1972

At the 23rd Congress ( 29 March – 8 April 1966 ) the survival ratio was 79. 4 percent, it decreased to 76. 5 percent at the 24th Congress ( 30 March – 9 April 1971 ), increased to 83. 4 percent at the 25th Congress ( 24 February – 5 March 1976 ) and at its peak, at the 26th Congress ( 23 February – 3 March 1981 ), it reached 89 percent.

# Don't Stand Where the Comet is Assumed to Strike Oil — May 26, 2003 to February 29, 2004

She eventually married Eugene Janssen ( February 18, 1918 – March 30, 1996 ) on September 29, 1940 in Los Angeles.

The issue sold out in three weeks, but as of February 17, 2009 the DVD was made available for members of the Disney movie club for $ 29. 95.

David Thomas " Davy " Jones ( 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012 ) was an English recording artist, actor, and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name.

On the morning of 29 February 2012, Jones went to tend his 14 horses at a farm in Indiantown, Florida.

The days of February 29 of the years AD 100, AD 200, AD 300, and the day created by the irregular application of leap years between the assassination of Caesar and the decree of Augustus re-arranging the calendar in AD 8, remained in effect.

* Leap Day: February 29 ( Every four years, with some exceptions )

* February 29

February 29, also known as a leap day in the Gregorian calendar, is a date that occurs in most years that are divisible by 4, such as 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.

Over this period, February 29 falls on Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday 13 times each ; 14 times each on Friday and Saturday ; and 15 times each on Monday and Wednesday.

February 29 came to be regarded as the leap day when the Roman system of numbering days was replaced by sequential numbering in the late Middle Ages.

* 1712 – February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Old style.

A person who is born on February 29 may be called a " leapling " or a " leap year baby ".

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

A new report on the earnings records of toll roads in the most recent 12-month period -- ending in February or March -- shows what is happening.

In the Southern Hemisphere, August is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern Hemisphere.

This is the fourth verse of a song-lyric published in Melbourne Punch on 1 February 1883:

Amethyst is the traditional birthstone for February.

He is venerated as a saint, on the day of his death — 18 February.

In February 2006, he suffered a stroke in Scarborough, and stated: " I hope to be back on my feet, or should I say my left leg, as soon as possible, but I know it is going to take some time.

Antarctic sea ice cycles seasonally, in February – March the amount of sea ice is lowest, and in August – September the sea ice is at its greatest extent.

The Jewish holiday Tu Bishvat, the new year for trees, is on the 15th day of the month of Shvat, which usually falls in January or February.

Andrew " Tridge " Tridgell ( born 28 February 1967 ) is an Australian computer programmer best known as the author of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm.

ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007

George Washington ( February 22, 1732-December 14, 1799 ), the country's first president, is often said to be the father of his country.

Apollos is regarded as a saint by several Christian churches, including the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which hold a commemoration for him, Aquila and Priscilla on February 13.

The ice reaches its maximum extent in February or March ; typical ice thickness in the northernmost areas in the Bothnian Bay, the northern basin of the Gulf of Bothnia, is about for landfast sea ice.

The province is currently governed by the BC Liberal Party, led by Premier Christy Clark, who became leader as a result of the party election on February 26, 2011.

Bethlehem's average annual relative humidity is 60 % and reaches its highest rates between January and February.

Buddy – as it is abbreviated on occasion – is still running in the UK after 22 years, with a UK tour that went out in February 2011.

This area of Manhattan is often called the Theater District or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline " Found on the Great White Way " in the February 3, 1902 edition of the New York Evening Telegram.

In February 1922, Winston Churchill telegraphed Herbert Samuel asking for cuts in expenditure and noting: In both Houses of Parliament there is growing movement of hostility, against Zionist policy in Palestine, which will be stimulated by recent Northcliffe articles.

In February 2012, they received planning permission for the site and the centre is scheduled to be opened by late 2013.

Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher founded on February 8, 1991 under the name Silicon & Synapse by three graduates of UCLA ,< ref name =" UCLAHonorDinner2006_11_06 ">

Charles William " Bill " Mumy, Jr. (; born February 1, 1954 ) is an American actor, musician, pitchman, instrumentalist, voice-over artist and a figure in the science-fiction community.