Our wedding anniversary was yesterday July-8-09 or “7/8/9” and our original wedding date was 7/8/78 and that got me wondering about other “numerically interesting” dates (I’m not sure what to call it).
I know there was a big rush of people getting married on July-7 2007 “7/7/7”.
Did anything like that happen back in 1977 on 7/7/77?
Also, my understanding is that ‘8’ is a lucky number for Chinese folk; was there a surge of weddings or other events on 8/8/8 or 8/8/88? (I believe the summer Olymics launced on 8/8/8 - but what else?)
I got married on 01/08/08 (August 1). We probably would have gone for the following week if it was free, but it wasn’t. Not for any numerological significance - just that 08/08/08 would have made the anniversary hard to forget!
Well, there are only so many weddings that can be booked for one day because of preparations, but our small parish did indeed have an unusually high number of requests for wedding ceremonies to be performed on that date last year. Especially so considering that it fell on a friday, which is the day funerals are normally held.
On the last episode of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit! (which was about astrology) they did a very quick segment with a boy who was [supposedly] born at 9:09 on 9/9. Penn was using this kid as an example of how birth dates and times as means of predicting personality was bunk because - he claims - the doctor slowed down the birth so that the boy would be born at exactly 9:09.
Totally dubious, I know, but somewhat relevant here. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if someone that pals around with Penn & Teller would do such a thing for the birth of their child
We married six days too soon – as we figured out when we both realized that we had memorized the beginning of Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride”: “'Twas on the 12th of April, '75…” that we took our vows.
No you didn’t! Just go to any sensible country where they write the day in front of the month, and on 7 August 2009 you will be able to see
12:34:56 7/8/9.
Don’t forget to be ready with your camera!
P.S. For those of you who write MM/DD the American way, celebrate Pi day on 14 March. Pi Day 2015 should be especially interesting.
I have a friend who was born on 8/8/64. She says it’s easy to remember her birth date as a multiplication problem.
Mr. S and I were married on July 20, 1990. It was pretty much the date that was available, but we liked that it’s the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
My partner and her son have palindromic ages, but only every 11 years. This year she turned 51 and he’ll turn 15 shortly, in 2020 they’ll turn 62 and 26, and in 1998 they were 40 and (0)4.
This only works if two people are a multiple of 9 years apart, and what multiple of 9 determines what age the younger one is when it first starts, so two people 27 years apart have their first palindromic year at 30 and (0)3 (x9=27).
