A Brief History of Leap Day
A thrilling history of calendars
4 min readFeb 29, 2024
Today is leap day. It is a day that most people don’t think much about. February 29th is an oddity that marks presidential election years in the United States and the year of the Summer Olympics in the modern era. There are a large number of babies born on this day every four years that will be bestowed with eye-raising identification cards and a conversation…
