July 9, 2011, is truly the oddest day of the year -- from a calendar standpoint.
If you were to write down the date in numerical form, it would look like this: 7/9/11 -- all odd numbers.
To make things odder, there are only six days each century when three consecutive odd numbers make up the date.
The odd sequence of events began on Jan. 3, 2005 (1/3/05), which was followed by March 5, 2007 (3/5/07), and May 7, 2009 (5/7/09).
Other than July 9, there will only be two days -- Sept. 11, 2013 (9/11/13), and Nov. 15, 2017 (11/15/17) -- left to celebrate this, well, odd series of calendars quirks.
So who is celebrating?
Oddly enough, the main person seems to be Ron Gordon, a retired high school teacher in Redwood City, Calif., who has been getting the word out about the odd calendar day ever since Sept. 9, 1981, which he declared "Square Root Day" because nine times nine equals 81.
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