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What Happened on Leap Year Day?
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45 BC |
Emperor Julius Caesar proclaims the last day of February as Leap Year Day, skipping it three out of four years. Back then, February 30th was the last day of the last month of the year, which is why he picked it. |
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4 AD |
Emperor Caesar Augustus corrects a counting error in Leap Years. He also gets the month of August named after him, and steals the last day of February so that August can have 31 days, just like Julius' month. Now February has 29 days in Leap Years. |
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1582 |
Pope Gregory XIII moves the end of the year to December 31st and makes century years Leap Years if they are divisible by 400. (So 2000 is a Leap Year, but 1900 was not.) He moved the end of the year back two months so that Easter would occur in the spring. |
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1692 |
The Salem Witch Trials begin on this Leap Day when Tituba, the female Indian servant of the Rev. Samuel Parris, and one Sarah Goode were both arrested and accused of witchcraft. |
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1964 |
William S. James, who designed cars for Hupmobile, Studebaker and Ford, and who served as vice president for research and engineering with the Fram Corporation, dies on this day at age 71. |
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1972 |
Hank Aaron becomes first baseball player to sign for $200,000 a year. |
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1984 |
The following songs top the charts on this Leap Day: "Jump" - Van Halen "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" - Cyndi Lauper "Thriller" - Michael Jackson "Stay Young" - Don Williams
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365.24219878 |
approximate days equal to one year |
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Computer Use by Adults (Statistics from a recent study by Harris Interactive) |
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| 27 | percent of computer users on the Internet three years ago |
| 81 | percent of computer users on the Internet TODAY |
| 50 | percent of adults use the computer at home |
| 30 | percent of adults used the computer at home in 1996 |
| 56 | percent of all adults use the Internet |
| 46 | percent of adults access the Internet from home |
| 37 | percent of adults access the Internet from work |
| 17 | percent of adults access the Internet from a different location |
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| Lincoln/Logan County Numbers | |
| 5 | Wards in Lincoln |
| 17 | Townships in Logan County |
| 29 | Officers in Lincoln City Police Department |
| 20 | Officers in Logan County Police Department |
| 22 | Firemen in the Lincoln City Fire Department |
| 16 | Rural Fire Departments in County |
| 13 | Members of Logan County Board |
| 10 | Members of Lincoln City Council |
| 3 | Colleges in Lincoln |
| 44,850 | Volumes in Lincoln Public Library |
| 40,000 | Volumes in Lincoln College Library |
| 126,000 | Volumes in Lincoln Christian College Library |