9-9-9 Will the world end today?

Some doom-mongers are predicting the end of the world today – on the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year – but, so far, they will have been greatly disappointed.

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Today was heralded by some pessimists as the last day in the history of the human race. Internet chat rooms devoted to the occult have been awash with talk of 09/09/09.

On Tuesday the term 09/09/09 was among the top 100 search terms on Google, with some warning that the world would be sucked into a black hole created by the Cern particle collider in Switzerland, or humans would be hit by a killer outbreak of swine flu.

But at 9am this morning nothing happened, although there is still the possibility that the world could end at precisely 9pm of course.

But so far the most interesting things to have happened have been engineered by marketing companies wanting to benefit from the conspicuous date.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6161137/9909-Will-the-world-end-today.html