Today

A Leap Day Milestone

This year (A.D. 2025) not being a Leap Year, make way to celebrate this Leap Day event on March First.

On Leap Year Day 1796, the Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain came into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.

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