National Saturday starts a string of 10 consecutive palindrome dates Palindromes are dates, words or phrases that read the same backwards as they do forward.

Wednesday marks the beginning of a slew of palindrome dates, which are dates that can be read the same forward and backward. For 10 consecutive days, from 1/20/21 to 1/29/21, the dates are mirrored.

After he discussed palindrome numbers with his students, many of them started playing with elements of their own birthdates. The U of P prof doesn’t limit this sort of thing to numbers.