Our Emergency number is the other set of digits 000! Most of the rest of the world is of course 112, which is either the first of December or the 11th of February....
Makes me wish I had lived in the year 1111. Imagine it being 11:11:11 on 11/11/1111! Of course, they probably didn't have the technology to measure time accurately enough back then, and might not even have used the same calendar. Ahh well.
On a more serious note, I was quite anxious about 09/09/09. The attacks on the World Trade Center occurred on 09/11, which is similar to the US Emergency Services number. 999 is the UK's Emergency Services number. I wonder whether the recently foiled aerial terrorist attack on Britain was planned for today, 09/09/09. Scary to think that we could all be reeling from a horrific attack right now, had the terrorists not been stopped.
