Daily Mail, By DAILY MAIL REPORTER, 20th October 2010
At 8:10pm tonight clocks will display a truly unique time sequence - 20:10 20/10/2010.
The quirk of the calendar is being used to promote a number of campaigns around the world, as numerologists enjoy the rare numerical phenomenon of October 20.
Only two weeks ago, October 10 was hailed as one of the luckiest days of the century given the row of 'perfect tens', with the date 10/10/10.
Fascinating date: At 8:10pm tonight clocks will display a truly unique time sequence - 20:10 20/10/2010 |
To mark today's special date, the Girl Guides Association is hosting events across the country in celebration of the organisation's centenary.
Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, and Rangers will come together at 8:10pm tonight to re-affirm their guiding promise in the final of a series of events to mark 100 years of the movement.
The United Nations has also used the fascinating date to designate today - World Statistics Day.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the UN General Assembly had proclaimed the day as such 'to recognise the importance of statistics in shaping our societies'.
Facebook groups have also been created to celebrate the unique date, with thousands of people using Twitter to discuss the calendar phenomenon.
Throughout history there have been claims that similar sequenced dates will result in either apocalyptic events or days of extreme luck.
The most famous example in recent years was the massive hype surrounding New Year's Eve 1999 - with the fears over the millennium bug bringing the world to its knees.
Also, on September 9 last year, or 9/9/9, the world failed to come to an end despite some interpretations of Nostradamus's predictions claiming it would.
Last month, on September 8, mathematicians celebrated a rare numerical phenomenon when the time and date read 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
The event, known as Sequential Day, occurred at 12:34pm and 56.7 seconds while the date completed the pattern with 8/9/10.
The phenomenon is so rare that the last 'pure' sequence fell at 01.23.45am on 6.7.89 and the next will take place at 01.23am on 4.5.67 - in 2067.
Today's sequence will continue only twice this millennium in 2011 and 2012.
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