29 februari

Stranded on Jamaica for a year with two worm-eaten ships, Columbus was running out of food. From an almanac he knew a lunar eclipse was due, warned the Taíno that God would darken the Moon, and the food came back.

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist who, for the first time, has wandered by himself in a Brazilian forest. — The Voyage of the Beagle At Bahia Darwin also saw slavery for himself. When FitzRoy said slaves had told their master they did not want to be…

Best Supporting Actress for Gone with the Wind: the first Black performer to win an Academy Award. She had been kept from the film’s Atlanta premiere by segregation, and at the ceremony she sat at a separate table by the wall, away from the film’s other stars.

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal. Johnson’s commission on the 1967 riots blamed white racism for the conditions in the ghettos. Johnson, stung, barely acknowledged it.

Raspberry Pi launchedRaspberry Pi

A $35 computer the size of a credit card, meant to get British schoolchildren programming again. The first batch sold out on launch day; more than 70 million have been sold since.