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Originally Posted by buttless1der
Feb 29
St. Tibbs Day, inserted between 59 Chaos and 60 Chaos, on the Discordian calendar.
Feb 29 1692
Sarah Good & Tituba, an Indian servant, was accused of witchcraft in Salem.
Feb 29 1960
An Earthquake killed 1/3 of Agadir Morocco population (12,000) in 15 sec. Also that day, it was hit with a tidal wave and a fire.
Feb 29 1960
Melvin Purvis, the G-Man who led the raids when John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd were slain, committed suicide wtih an automatic revolver*.
Feb 29 1996
A Peruvian commercial jet caught fire and crashed into remote Andean mountain canyon five miles from its destination, killing all 123 people on board.
*WTF is an automatic revolver?
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I could be wrong here, but my dad used to refer to a double action revolver as an "automatic revolver."
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