February, 11th = 42nd day of the year
The origin of the number “42” was explained by the author Douglas Adams in a Usenet posting from 1993. When asked why the answer is “42”, he wrote:
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought 42 will do. I typed it out. End of story.
Source: Wikipedia
I do recommend the last entries of my Project42!
