Happy Leap Day Open Thread: Monday, February 29, 2016

It’s Leap Day Woo Hoo! Commence to Leaping, if only to conclusions

Today's number is Twenty-Nine

29 is a prime

29 is copper

29 Palms is a small town in the California Desert

29 Palms is a large US Marine Corps Base in the California Desert

The Chattanooga Choo Choo departed from Track 29

I-29 connects Missouri & North Dakota. No one knows why.

29 is the maximum age at which one is trustworthy (Weinberg’s dictum).

29 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Octavian and Appuleius

Horace wrote the Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen (an ode) and Virgil sarted the Aeneid

29 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Geminus and Geminus

February 29 only occurs in years that are divisible by 4 and if they are also divisible by 100, then they must likewise be divisible by 400. Such days can only occur in the year of the monkey, the year of the dragon and the year of the rat.

On this date in
1916	The minimum age for factory, mine & mill workers in South Carolina was raised from 12 to 14
1988	Svend Robinson, of the Canadian House of Commons, came out as gay
2004	Jean-Bertrand Aristide was deposed as President of Haiti by a coup

Born this day in
1736	Ann Lee, a religionist and founder of the Shakers
1812	James Milne Wilson, A Premier of Tasmania who died on 2/29/1880 at the age of exactly what?
1860	Herman Hollerith, who invented the Hollerith code for punched cards, the punched card tabulator and co-founded the predecessor of IBM
1904	Jimmy Dorsey, a saxophonist, composer & bandleader
1908	Balthus, a painter and illustrator
1916	Dinah Shore, a singer, actress and Chevy promoteuse
1928	Tempest Storm, a dancer, actress and singerHerman Hollerith
1952	Bart Stupak, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, representing the Vactican and the US Council of Catholic Bishops. A probable member of The Family (aka The Fellowship) he obstructed passage of the ACA insisting upon anti-choice (or forced birther) clauses. He retired rather than run against a pro-choice woman in the next primary.
1960	Khaled an Algerian singer-songwriter

Died this day in
1880	James Milne Wilson, the 8th premier of Tasmania
1960	Melvin Purvis, famus feebie
1992	La Lupe, the queen of latin soul
2012	Roland Bautista, a guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire)
2012	Davy Jones an actor, singer and guitarist (The Monkees)

Holidays, Holy Days, Feasts, Observances and such

It’s Rare Disease Day (don’t run out and get one, all the same)

The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates February 29. This appears to be a thing with them - pick a date and they celebrate it. Keeps their hand in, I guess.

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