ATTITUDE.

on this day in history..

for a day that doesn't exist normally, it has been rather eventful.
three of these events are (got these off wikipedia. there's a whole list there)...

A Peruvian Boeing 737 crashing in the Andes, killing 123 people in 1996.
Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award in 1940 for her role as Mammy in Gone With The Wind.
Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Native Americans to provide him with supplies in 1504.

Also, leapling (what you call someone born on the 29th of February) Alice Olson (who was born February 29, 1896 in Nebraska) died on February 29 1988 on her 22nd birthday (she was 92 years old, but they had no leap year in 1900, so she had to wait until she was 8 to have a "real" birthday). The odds of this are about 1 in 2-3 million so there should be a few thousand around the world who experience this in their lifetimes.
That is pretty cool.

However, reading that has made me realize that being one in a million isn't that special =/
Alice was one in 3 million but she's still just part of a group of a thousand. if you were one in a million (im actually going to bother to try the math here. this will turn sour), you'd be a part of 3000++ (i. think. =S )

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