I'm having such a great time telling all my friends about this :) (who are also coders)
I'm going to write about this to my girlfriend (who is a wanna-be-hacker). Now I have another reason to speak to her.
This day also has another significance. It's on this day that IBM introduced the first storage disk unit the RAMAC 305 in 1956 and it stored 5 million 8-bit characters.