I noticed that two recent dates had the property that the day-month combination was just a permutation of the year.
This struck me as a rare occurrence. And then I realized that we had an honest-to-goodness palindrome date coming up!
This is definitely a rare occurrence! In celebration, I recommend that you do something forwards and then backwards.
I suppose the question now is, “When is the next palindrome day?”
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/02/whats_so_special_about_today_its_a_palindrome/
Guess I missed that one, although the leading 0 may disqualify it from being a true palindrome.
I did, however, enjoy reading the comments at the bottom of the above article.
[...] certainly isn’t as exciting as the recent palindrome day we had, but it sure has been a fun month or so for calendar [...]
[...] might not enjoy as many special numerical days this year (like palindrome days or permutation days), but I do look forward to writing 2012 for the next 365 [...]
[...] 11022011 (mrhonner.com) [...]