WATCH: Today is the 13th day of the 12th month in the year 2014. And it’s a sequential series of numbers that many couples and gamblers are hoping will prove lucky. Jennifer Palma reports.
It’s rare. It’s orderly. And when it comes to remembering an anniversary date, it’s as easy as 12/13/14.
Saturday’s Dec. 13, 2014, represents the last sequential calendar date for at least 20 years (Jan. 2, 2034) and another 89 years if waiting for Jan. 2, 2103.
If a person has a heart set on commemorating the next 12/13/14, make sure that heart can stand another 100 years on earth to make it to Dec. 13, 2114.
For cryogenic fans, it’s 1,000 years until 3014.
A sequence comes sooner for math nerds with pi. The day is mere months away on March, 14 (Get it? 3.1415 ….)
The dates represent a lucky list of number for some gamblers and certainly a memorable wedding date for others.
“We decided this date because it had meaning,” said Rob Botelho of Surrey, who got married to his new wife Kristen at 11 a.m. today.
“It was the first day we got back together…there hasn’t been a day we haven’t talked or been together since.”
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The Viva Las Vegas wedding chapel plans to marry 120 couples Saturday starting with Egyptian-themed nuptials followed by weddings with a touch of Tom Jones, gangsters, Liberace and, of course, Elvis, said general manager Brian Mills. The number is on pace with July 7, 2007 (7/7/7) but far from the 230 weddings the chapel performed for Nov. 11, 2011 (11/11/11).
Lottery players looking for a bit of extra luck love these kinds of quirky number combos.
On Sept. 11, 2002, the winning numbers in New York State’s Pick 3 game were 9-1-1. A total of 5,631 people picked the winning sequence; the combination was picked so many times, the numbers were closed out.
Maura McCann, a spokeswoman for the New Hampshire Lottery, said they anticipate selling more tickets on sequential or repetitive dates such as 12/12/12, but notes that lottery players get inspired by all sorts of things. In 2005, more than 100 winners of a secondary $100,000
Powerball prize played numbers linked back to the numbers in a single fortune cookie.
“Lottery players, kind of in a nutshell, are superstitious,” McCann said.
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