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Today is a special day. December 12 2012 – or 12/12/12 – it marks the last time that the day, month and year will all match up for the next 88 years.
Around the world, people celebrated the triple date in different ways - like the many couples who got married and preserved the number for themselves by making it their anniversary.
A street performer in Madrid's Plaza Mayor poses with an iPad showing the time reading 12:12:12 on the date 12/12/12. This is the first picture in a slideshow of 12 images of 12/12/12 from around the globe.
Newlyweds Julia Trotta and Davide Balula from Manhattan embrace on the street just after getting married in a civil ceremony on 12/12/12. The date was also Trotta's 30th birthday.
Reuters photographer Jon Nazca documents the moment when the clock hit 12:12:12 on his mobile phone. At the time he was surrounded by sheep being herded towards a mountain in southern Spain.
Newlywed Bri-Ann Light gets lifted up by her new wife Victoria Guy after the couple, who are from Florida, were married in a civil ceremony in New York on 12/12/12. They were among hundreds of couples who got married at this lower Manhattan registry office on the special day.
Reuters photographer Marcelo del Pozo take a picture of his watch striking 12:12:12 as he stands in front of a giant billboard know as 'Osborne's Bull', in a field in Castilleja del Campo, Spain.
A nurse shows a newborn baby to its family at the Mother and Child Bunda hospital in Jakarta on December 12. A hospital's spokesman said that eighteen mothers requested that the hospital help them to deliver their babies on this special date.
A man dressed as a Roman centurion poses with an iPad showing the date "12/12/12" and the time 12:12 in front of Rome's ancient Colosseum. The next triple day like this won't occur until January 1 2101, or 01/01/01.
In an abundance of twelves, twelve couples got married on 12/12/12 in a ceremony at the Peak in Hong Kong.
Reuters photographer Albert Gea holds up his mobile phone as it hits 12:12:12 in front the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
Shudi Tang walks past a balloon commemorating her wedding on 12/12/12 as she leaves a marriage office in central Sydney. To mark the same date a record number of couples got married Australia.
Reuters photographer Leonhard Foeger shows his watch at 12:12:12 in the square in front of St. Stephens cathedral in Vienna.
Dozens of clocks strike 12:12 on 12/12/12 in a park in Duesseldorf.
