Deleted date appears in Title page

I am using TeXnic Cener on Windows. My latex document is in article format. Initially, I had the following title page:

    \documentclass{article}    \setcounter{tocdepth}{3}    \begin{document}    \title{Some title}    \author{My Name}    \date{\today}    \maketitle     \thispagestyle{empty}     \clearpage     \tableofcontents      \clearpage

Then, to add more structure to the title page, I made the following modifications:

     \begin{document}     \title{Some title}      \author{My Name}     \paragraph{}     \large \centerline{My Report}     \centerline{for the purpose}     \centerline{\date{\today}}     \normalsize      \maketitle     \thispagestyle{empty}     \clearpage     \tableofcontents     \clearpage

The problem is, the date appeared in two places: the old place and the new place. I removed the date completely and tried the following:

1. Restart texnic center
2. Restart my laptop
3. Remove the pdf file generated so it is created again.

Nothing seems to work and I still get the date displayed in its old place. I also want to mention that before adding date to any of the above code, the date did not display at all.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.