Today's date, the 2nd of February, 2020, is a palindrome, if you render it thus - 02/02/2020, dd-mm-yyyy. You can use different dating formats to get different palindromic outcomes. If you think about it, we write the date many different ways, such as d-m-yy, d-m-yyyy, not to mention the fact that the Americans write it the wrong way, with the month first. But then, they still use the Imperial System of weights and measures.

But the first rendering dd-mm-yyyy is quite special and rare, since the last occasion this occurred as a palindrome was 11/11/1111. It is unlikely that that date excited much attention, since most people at that time could neither read nor write and many did not even know their date of birth. Nothing out of the ordinary appears to have happened on that day and I hope that nothing of great import happens on this one, either.

Palindromes are more common though in words, think of Bob, ewe, madam, level or rotor for starters. They can also occur, though often by comic design, in sentences - "Was it a rat I saw?", is one such case. And another -