Feb. 29 is a bonus day in 2024 – which happens only every four years. The last leap year was 2020. Typically, February has only 28 days. Our shortest month gets a day longer in 2024, as it does ...

Update: Thank you to everyone who submitted their story and participated in our Leap Year Birthday Party on TODAY. We're no longer accepting submissions. Did you know 2024 is a leap year?

And not many kids can say they are born on the leap year." Sadie celebrated her "1st" birthday — at the age of 4 — with a simple family party. But now that she knows that 2024 has her "real ...

These kids have grown by leaps and bounds. A Brooklyn brother and sister who were both born on Leap Day four years apart are celebrating their unique birthday together this year for the first time.

Naibi Mariñas, a UF associate instructional professor of astronomy, said the leap year is a mathematical tool implemented in 1582 to fix the calendar. Earth’s orbit around the sun and the lunar ...

To understand the fear rooted in leap day – 29 February – and the subsequent year, you need to know their origins. According toThe Economic Times, a leap year is necessary to mark for the ...

And never again. In honor of Leap Day 2024 and the Leap Year hoopla for Feb. 29 − a date not seen since Feb. 29, 2020 − we've tackled the even more rare date and little-known tale of Feb. 30.

The centenarian explains that she’s always marked her non-leap year birthdays on random dates ... person for Forsythe’s grand birthday party on Feb. 29. “I had no idea what I ...

Over the course of centuries, a calendar with no leap years would eventually become totally out of sync with the seasons as we know them. Let’s see what would happen. Leap years exist because we ...

That's because the Sand Springs, Oklahoma, native is a "leapling," a term for people born on leap day (Feb. 29), which appears on the calendar only just about every four years. Forsythe was born ...