Today is November 11, 2011, aka, 11-11-11 in the
Gregorian calendar.
It’s the fourth, and last of such numerical alignments
this year, the others being 1-1-11, 1-11-11, and 11-1-11.
The next time 3 identical numbers will appear in a date
is 12-12-12 next year. After that, it won’t happen again until 01-01-01 in
the year 2101.
November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap
years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 50 days remaining until the end
of the year.
Although no overly exciting events occurred in the
history of 11-11-11, perhaps the most significant event that occurred on
November 11 happened on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the
eleventh month in 1918, when a temporary cessation of hostilities between
the Allied nations and Germany went into effect, which is now generally
regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.”
A curiosity of mathematics, 111111 x 111111 =
12345654321.
A completely useless fact about 111: If you take the last
two digits of the year you were born (using the Gregorian calendar) and add
that to your age, the resulting number will be 111.
