Happy 10/10/10!

Today is the tenth day of the tenth month of the tenth year of the century.

This is the last triple-digit day for a year, a month, and a day, when we'll have 11/11/11.

That will be the last triple-digit day for another year, another month, and another day, when we'll have 12/12/12.

And that will be the last triple-digit day for almost a century.

Enjoy them while they're available!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

11 thoughts on “Happy 10/10/10!”

  1. One day, when we’re really old, we’ll be able to tell the young people what we did at 10:10:10 on 10/10/10

  2. This is totally unrelated but I’ve read a lot of your posts and I’ve found them very interesting and educational. That said what I’m really interested about is an article on “conscience vs obedience to the bishops” with particular focus on “reproductive health” (or RH a.k.a. contraception/population control)… I believe the “supremacy of the conscience” has been one of the arguments of pro-abort Catholics in the U.S. to justify their cause – and is now being used by pro-RH Filipino Catholics.
    Hope you can do a piece on this. Thanks very much.

  3. I wondered what you meant by “pro-RH.” So I looked it up and found an article that said:
    “I think people should first start to drop the term Catholic Church whenever they are referring to the Catholic clergy and all their minions who are against the RH Bill because, first, the Catholic clergy and their supporters are not the whole of the Catholic Church for the Church is the whole body of believers and not the magisterium or the religious bureaucracy; and second, because most Catholic faithful according to studies are for the RH Bill according to previous studies made and been reported on the media.”
    Ohhhh…kayyyyyy…. Well, I guess that’s all I need to know about that 🙂

  4. … the tenth year of the century.
    If 2010 is the tenth year of the century, then it means that 2001 was the first year of the century – not 2000.
    I was one of those who could only say “Happy New Year” rather than “Happy New Century/Millennium” on 1 Jan 2000.

  6. 101010 is also binary for 42, which happens to be the secret to life, the universe, and everything.

    Congratulations! You found a . . . THEOLOGICAL CONNECTION!

  7. Can I brag? My sis had a daughter (Esther Regina)on 10/10/10- she is my mom’s 10th granddaughter (+10 grandsons)-
    also- my sis lost her first daughter, born 10-20, to SIDS 10 years ago.
    Interesting, no????

  8. 101010 is also binary for 42
    For all your numerological needs:
    010101 [the reflection] is binary for 21 = 42/2. 10 + 10 + 10 = 110 = 6 = 42/7
    10 * 10 * 10 = 1000 = 8 = 5 1/4 * 8 = (21/4)*8
    101010/10 = 10101 = 010101 [its reflection]
    101010 + 010101 = 111111 = 6 ones in a row
    (10 + 10)/10 = 10 = 2 = 42/21
    (10*10)/10 = 10 = 2 = 42/21
    1010101 [the number shifted by 1] = 85 = 42 * 2 + 1
    101010 + 1010101 (the number shifted by 1) = 1111111 = 127 = 42 * 3 + 1
    The Chicken

  9. While we’re on the subject of calendar trivia….
    There’s a meme going around on Facebook and Twitter that notes this October has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, and 5 Sundays, which is true. But then it is further claimed this happens only every 823 years, which is NOT true. This previously happened in October in 1982, 1993, 1999 and 2004, and will next occur in 2021.

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