The media is all over Leap Day. This morning Facebook featured a woman who turns 100 today, but is celebrating only her twenty-fifth birthday. CBS News provided a lengthy historical perspective on the need for Leap Day every four years. It has to do with the rotation of the Earth’s orbit around the sun. And the Associated Press gave me some facts about February 29.
For example, on this date in 1892, Britain and the United States agreed to arbitration over their dispute regarding seal hunting in the Bering Sea. (Bear in mind, this is not the same thing as settling the dispute.) In 1940 Hattie McDaniel became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award. And in 1968, the 5th Dimension won the record of the year award at the Grammys for “Up, Up, and Away.”
Today President Biden and former president Trump both visited Texas and ramped up the rhetoric about the border crisis. I wonder if this event will be remembered in Leap Days to come.
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