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On This Day In History, Nothing Happened

Yesterday was Leap Day.

What interesting events might have occurred in my family on Leap Day in years past? Our online genealogy program, PHP Gedview, has an anniversary calendar feature that I can use to find out.  So I navigated to the site and pulled up the calendar for February 29. The answer is, nothing of importance to my family has ever happened on Leap Day as far as I know.

By February 29 this year, I had 2282 people listed in my family tree. Most of them have several life events documented (births, marriages, deaths, etc.), yet not one event has occurred on a Leap Day. Nobody planned such a memorable wedding date, and we have no Leap Day birthdays. Looking at my family tree, one would never know that February 29 even exists.

I am not a statistician, so I do not know the odds of events landing on a day that occurs only once every four years. I think the chances are probably small, but I really thought I would find something. On every other day of the year I usually find more than one event. Why not Leap Day?

It is now too late for 2012, so how about planning something for the next Leap Year in 2016? If someone would get married on Leap Day, we could finally fill in that space on the family anniversary calendar.

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