Oregon is a great choice due to favorable weather, good transportation infrastructure in the Willamette Valley, and superior scenery. The first total solar eclipse touching the continental United States since 1979 touches down on the Oregon coast between Lincoln City and Newport at 10:15 a.m. PDT. Before Oregon, the shadow of the Moon (umbra) does not touch any other landmass or island before Oregon.
The definition of Calendar Year in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is: January first through December thirty-first; usually used in contradistinction to some other way of measuring a year, e.g., academic year, fiscal year.
A leap year is a calendar year containing one additional day added to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year. Because seasons and astronomical events do not repeat in a whole number of days, calendars that have the same number of days in each year drift over time with respect to the event that the year is supposed to track. By inserting an additional day or month into the year, the drift can be corrected. A year that is not a leap year is called a common year. For example, in the Gregorian calendar, each leap year has 366 days instead of the usual 365, by extending February to 29 days rather than the common 28.