# Was 9-11 No News Is Good News Day

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-9-11-no-news-is-good-news-day/509965>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 13, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-9-11-no-news-is-good-news-day/509965 "2009-09-13T22:56:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-9-11-no-news-is-good-news-day/509965/1 "2009-09-13T22:56:12Z")

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I was looking at a monthly calender in a Disney magazine from 1995 for the month of September and it said September 11th was No News Is Good News Day. Is this true?

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-9-11-no-news-is-good-news-day/509965/2 "2009-09-13T23:07:45Z")

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Yes, true. It seems to have magically appeared in 1993. I can find newspaper cites to verify that. Of course, it may have even existed slightly before.

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**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-9-11-no-news-is-good-news-day/509965/3 "2009-09-14T02:29:52Z")

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I was re-reading the book “Big Secrets” by William Poundstone a few years ago and was jolted by one passage where he mentions using “a date with no particular significance attached with it – say, September 11th”.

That may have to be changed in future editions of the book…

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**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2009, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-9-11-no-news-is-good-news-day/509965/4 "2009-09-15T08:36:06Z")

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In _Rendezvous with Rama_, Arthur C. Clarke describes a fictional asteroid strike that devastates north-eastern Italy, on September 11, 2077. The strike is described as occurring at 9:46 GMT, nearly matching the (admittedly non-GMT) time of the first plane hitting the WTC in 2001 (8:46 AM).