Today is a special day and I’m not referring to groundhogs or football

Today, February 2nd, 2020, is a palindromic date all over the world. No matter whether you write dates U.S. style as mm/dd/yyyy or European style as dd/mm/yyyy or Asian style with the year first as yyyy/mm/dd unless it's yyyy/dd/mm, I'm not sure which, the result reads the same forward or backward:

02022020 (U.S. and Europe), 20200202 (Asia)

The last worldwide palindromic date was November 11, 1111 (11111111), over 900 years ago. There was also one on January 1, 1010 (01011010), more than 56 years before anybody named William thought about conquering anybody named Harold. There was an even earlier palindromic date on October 1st, 1001 (10011001).

Generally speaking, however, palindromic dates are scarcer than hen's teeth.

The next worldwide palindromic date will occur on December 12, 2121 (12122121) but then one won't occur again until March 3, 3030 (03033030), followed by April 4, 4040 (04044040) and May 5, 5050 (05055050), and so on and so forth, by which I mean June 6, 6060 (06066060), July 7, 7070 (07077070), August 8, 8080 (08088080), and September 9, 9090 (09099090).

I'm sorry to inform you that one will not occur in the year 2525.

In The Year 2525
by Zager and Evans (1968)

In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
In the year 4545
You ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes
You won't find a thing to chew
Nobody's gonna look at you
In the year 5555
Your arms hangin' limp at your sides
Your legs got nothin' to do
Some machine's doin' that for you
In the year 6565
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube.

At least there will still be worldwide palindromic dates to look forward to.

On a personal note, today is also the 97th birthday of my friend Rinaldo "Len" Gallucci of Bainbridge, Georgia, whom Mrs. RWP and I have known for 50 years. We visited him and his wife Lorraine in Boynton Beach, Florida, in Boca Raton, Florida, in Ocala, Florida, in Waconia, Minnesota, in Ozark, Missouri, and, finally, in Bainbridge, Georgia. They kept moving but we kept finding them.

Happy, 97th birthday, Len!

These two guys are not named William and Harold. Can you guess who they are?