Our leap year calculator allows you to find the number of leap years online within a given range - that's how we know that there were precisely 30 leap years since 1900 until 2020. π
Let's start with the list:
2020 - Unforgettable. Fires in Australia, floods in other parts of the world, threats of World War III, and the global coronavirus pandemic. Oh, what a year it was! π¦
2012 - Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her coronation. US death toll in Afghanistan hits 2000. CERN announces the discovery of a new particle with properties consistent with the so-called God particle (Higgs boson). π
2000 - The start of the new millennium - George W. Bush is elected the president of the United States of America for the first time. The first resident crew enters the International Space Station. Concorde, the fastest plane worldwide, crashes after taking-off from Paris. The first presentation of the Human Genome Project. π§¬
1992 - Space shuttle Atlantis takes off from Cape Canaveral carrying equipment to study global warming. Bosnian War begins. The United States conducts its last nuclear test. Microsoft releases Windows 3.1. π
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1956 - The year of the Suez Crisis in Egypt. First broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest. The submarine transatlantic telephone cable opens. Asian flu pandemic originates in China. π€
All the leap years since 1900 are as follows:
1904, 1908, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020
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