2/02/2020 - First Palindrome Day in 909 Yrs: Can be Read Both Ways

2 February 2020 is a very special date. 02.02.2020, which is the same if read backwards, falls under the category of being a Palindrome day – read it in any format, be it MM/DD/YYYY or DD/MM/YYYY, it’ll still be the same.

This will be the only palindrome in this century. The last palindrome date occurred on 11.11.1111, about 909 years ago. Further, a little after 2 am on Sunday, the clock struck 02:02:20 on 02/02/20.

The next palindrome date will now come 101 years later, on 12/12/2121, then at 03/03/3030, another 909 years later.

According to a CNN report, the Solihull School Maths Department tweeted out another interesting fact about this Palindrome date, saying that 2 February 2020 is also a palindrome day of this year, since its 33 days into the new year, with 333 days to go.