diff --git a/parseany.go b/parseany.go
index 25a1663..e6bc421 100644
--- a/parseany.go
+++ b/parseany.go
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ const (
 var _ = u.EMPTY
 
 var (
-	shortDates = []string{"01/02/2006", "1/2/2006", "06/01/02", "01/02/06"}
+	shortDates = []string{"01/02/2006", "1/2/2006", "06/01/02", "01/02/06", "1/2/06"}
 )
 
 // Given an unknown date format, detect the type, parse, return time
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ iterRunes:
 			// 3/1/2014
 			// 10/13/2014
 			// 01/02/2006
+			// 1/2/06
 			if unicode.IsDigit(r) || r == '/' {
 				continue
 			}
diff --git a/parseany_test.go b/parseany_test.go
index 90b4e00..7e46c6c 100644
--- a/parseany_test.go
+++ b/parseany_test.go
@@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ func TestParse(t *testing.T) {
 	//u.Debug(ts.In(time.UTC).Unix(), ts.In(time.UTC))
 	assert.T(t, "1971-08-21 00:00:00 +0000 UTC" == fmt.Sprintf("%v", ts.In(time.UTC)))
 
+	// m/d/yy
+	ts, err = ParseAny("8/1/71")
+	assert.Tf(t, err == nil, "%v", err)
+	//u.Debug(ts.In(time.UTC).Unix(), ts.In(time.UTC))
+	assert.T(t, "1971-08-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC" == fmt.Sprintf("%v", ts.In(time.UTC)))
+
 	ts, err = ParseAny("4/8/2014 22:05")
 	assert.Tf(t, err == nil, "%v", err)
 	//u.Debug(ts.In(time.UTC).Unix(), ts.In(time.UTC))