What do you call it when the number of the day, month and year is the
same? 01/01/01, 02/02/02, 03/03/03, etc. I know it happens once every
thousand years but I forgot the term used to describe this event

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 17 Mar 2004 13:45 PST

This is somewhat similar to a "palindromic date." 

The phenomenon is sometimes called "date triples":

"Date Triples: Date Triples is my name for dates using two-digit years
the month, day, and year, are all the same. 03/03/03 was the last one.
The next is 04/04/04. These dates are culture independent as it
doesn't matter what order the numbers are written in."

http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/yrexamples.html

"A decade or so from now, we'll also have an 12/12/12 and over the
next eight years we'll have date triples like  03/03/03 and so forth,
up thru 09/09/09 and 10/10/10 and 11/11/11."

http://abcdunlimited.com/liberty/refs/groundhog.doc

And here the term "palendrical phenomenon" is used (I haven't seen
this term elsewhere):

"The name for the rare occurrence of repeating digits in a calendar
date, as 8/8/88, is palendri- cal phenomenon, according to J.N.
Friend's NUMBERS: FUN & FACTS, chap. 8, p.101."

http://www.sjvls.org/cgi-bin/bens_02/100806

If this is fully satisfactory, I'll be glad to repost this material as your answer.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 17 Mar 2004 13:54 PST

Here's some info about palindromic dates that you might find interesting:

http://www.anomalousreality.com/ar/1111/date_2002_2002.html