[userbinator]

1969-07-20 might be a more memorable date to some people here.

1941-12-07 could be suitable for a Japanese site.

[riffic]

I'm making a snarky allusion to the default date for a blank date field

[thaumasiotes]

The default date is 1970-01-01. What does being a day older accomplish?

[Cyberdog]

For those in the western hemisphere, local time zone adjustment means that midnight on 1970-01-01 GMT becomes some time in the afternoon or evening of the day before.