Square Root Day is being celebrated on March 3, 2009. It got its start on 9-9-81 when Ron Gordon, a high school teacher in Redwood City, Calif. noticed the numerical properties of the date. For 2-2-04 even the groundhog in Punxsutawney, Penn. got involved, nibbling on a treat of square-carved roots provided Overnight Express by Mr. Gordon.

Born in Germany on Feb. 16, 1948 and profiled earlier this week on Nightline, Eckhart Tolle experienced an epiphany shortly after his 29th birthday which laid the foundation for his philosophical teachings featured last year on Oprah.

Only Douglas Adams' Infinite Improbability Drive could explain both the submarine collision of Feb. 3^rd and the satellite collision of Feb. 11^th. He was born March 11^th 1952 in Cambridge, England and went to Brentwood School as a youth.

Cambridge, England was not only Douglas Adams' place of birth but also the site of Eckhart Tolle's epiphany in late winter 1977. In 1953, the double spiral structure of DNA was discovered there. By the way, Douglas Adams' full initials are DNA.

Life, the Universe and Kurt Cobain. Friday the 20th would have been his 42nd birthday.

On April 11, 1970 Apollo XIII launched at 13:13 hrs Houston Mission Control time from Cape Canaveral's Complex 39 (13 times 3), and then suffered its oxygen tank explosion on the 13^th. Despite all this, the three astronauts all made it home alive, splashing down in the Pacific the next Friday. So don't fret that in a few weeks it will again be Friday the 13^th!.