http://b985.fm Central Maine's Country Sun, 19 May 2013 17:11:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://b985.fm/one-time-in-history-there-was-a-february-30th/ http://b985.fm/one-time-in-history-there-was-a-february-30th/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 20:53:54 +0000 Randy McCoy http://b985.fm/?p=55534 February is the month on our calendar that has 29 days except during a leap year when there are 28. There was a time in history that there was a February 30th! It happened only once and it was in Sweden and Finland in 1712

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