Feb. 31, 1869? My son has this fascination that borders on insanity with calenders, dates and time in general - from space, outer space to time travel and everything in between. Just give him a date between 1900 and 2300 and he would tell you correctly its day through mental calculation. So, one day he asked me (to test my intelligence) whether if there ever existed a 30th February. Annoyed, I told him no and advised him to use his resources for something more productive! It turned out that there existed twice in the history of mankind the dates February 30th and I had to eat humble pie. And he went on rattling about the Swedish calendar (during the conversion of Julian to the Gregorian calendar) and the Soviet revolutionary calendar when the months were jumbled up to serve certain reasons. And of course, in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Hobbits had a February 30 in their calendar! (...from www.timeanddate.com) February 30 was a real date February 30 was a re...
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