This page has some pretty good ideas: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1t02dv/why_does_america_write_the_date_as_monthdayyear/ http://www.reddit.c

This page has some pretty good ideas: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1t02dv/why_does_america_write_the_date_as_monthdayyear/ http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1t02dv/why_do... It probably has something to do with early typesetting where it was much easier to change the number without changing the month if the type was set left to right. This was true for both england and america with the advent of printing but seemed to stick in America possibly due to habit without having a manuscript tradition to fall back on.