On this day in history
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Source: HistoryNet.com
0045: The first Leap Day is recognized by proclamation of Julius Caesar. Under the old Roman calendar, the last day of February was the last day of the year.
1692: Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are arrested for the supposed practice of witchcraft in Salem, Mass.
1780: Pennsylvania becomes the first U.S. state to abolish slavery.
1815: Napoleon lands at Cannes, France, returning from exile on Elba, with a force of 1,500 men and marches on Paris.
1932: The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped from the Lindbergh home near Princeton, New Jersey.
1935: Germany officially establishes the Luftwaffe.
1943: The British RAF conducts strategic bombing raids on all European railway lines.
1981: Alberta cuts oil production to protest Ottawa's energy policy.
1985: The Pentagon accepts the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing a "nuclear winter.”
1987: Coffee giant Starbucks opens its first Canadian outlet – in Vancouver.
