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unusual facts about Leap Years


Leap Years

The show was created by Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman, who had created the American version of the series Queer as Folk.



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9/16

September 16, the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar

Calendar reform

In 1923, Milutin Milanković proposed to a synod of some Eastern Orthodox Churches at Constantinople that only those centennial years (those ending in '00) that leave a remainder of 200 or 600 upon division by 900 would be leap years, decreasing the average year length to 365.242222 days.

February 30

The 13th century scholar Sacrobosco claimed that in the Julian calendar February had 30 days in leap years between 45 BC and 8 BC, when Augustus allegedly shortened February by one day to give that day to the month of August named after him so that it had the same length as the month of July named after his adoptive father Julius Caesar.

May 6th

The 126th day of the year (127th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, or