Couple of days early actually. Here you usually say day/month/year, and so I got confused about the month/day/year US nomenclature, even though I swore I wasn't confused about it when I posted it... dang! happens every time!
Oh well I guess its a commentary on date conventions in various cultures.
What else happened on 9/9?
I just did a google and this guy died on 9/9/76.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
Apparently on 9/9/1956 this was the day that Elvis Presley appeared on Ed Sullivan's show
Toast of the Town and 'scandalized audiences with his suggestive hip gyrations'.
On 9/9/1945 the second Sino-Japanese war, between China and Japan formally ended when 1,000,000 Japanese troops surrendered to China.
On the same day the first bug discovered in Computer Software Program when operators at the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory traced an error in the Mark II Computer to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book September 9th 1945.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:H96566k.jpg
And tubeswell decided that 9/11 was the 9 September 2011 on 9/9/11! LoL
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