WHAT ALL HAPPENED ON 29. FEBRUARY 1940
Look what happened on 29. February 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. (29. February 1940)

For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award. (29. February 1940)

Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations (29. February 1940)

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