Unexpected data found Carbon?

I have incoming string date:

$date = '09.04.1981';

I tried t format this date in DATE (mysql), so I do:

return Carbon::createFromFormat('Y-m-d', $date); 

It returns me an exception:

"Unexpected data found.\r\nUnexpected data found.\r\nTrailing data"

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