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The Tupolev Tu-154 (NATO reporting name: Careless) is a Soviet medium-range trijet airliner, equivalent to the Boeing 727

The Alfa Romeo 155 was only produced from 1992-1998.

Britain ruled Hong Kong for 156 years before turning control over to China.

The galaxy NGC 157 was discovered on December 13th 1783 by the British astronomer (not yet Sir) William Herschel

158 BC - Ariarathes I of Cappadocia is forcibly removed from his throne and flees to Rome, all to avoid marrying the sister of Demetrius I. (She must've been really ugly or something.)

Alfa Romeo 159. A car I wish I could afford. I would not buy one ... I just wish I could afford to.

160 is the sum of the first 11 primes, as well as the sum of the cubes of the first three primes.

161 is an odd natural number between 160 and 162. It is the sum of five consecutive prime numbers, namely 23, 29, 31, 37, and 41. 161 is also a hexagonal pyramidal number.

161 Kilometers is equal to 100 Miles

The German national accident insurance paid out 162 million Euro in 2004 for noise-related occupational diseases and disability alone.

163 is the first number that cannot be shot with three darts on a standard dart board.

The rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem on 14 December, 164 BC, is commemorated in the Jewish Chunkka festival.

165 CE: The first outbreak of the Antonine Plague, which decimated the Roman Empire.

U-166 was a German submarine sunk in the Gulf of Mexico during WWII.

Nit-pik: In reading through this thread, I came across a post saying that the Great San Fransisco Earthquake occurred in 1989. That is incorrect. The Loma Prieta Earthquake (M 6.7) occurred in 1989, while the Great San Fransisco Earthquake (M 7.9) happened in 1906.

167-Thulium has a half-life of 9.25 days.

There are 168 hours in a week, which is apparently never enough time to get everything done.

Elena Kondakova spent 169 days in space aboard Mir in 1994, still the record for women.

170 is the largest number that Google's built-in calculator function will compute the factorial of.

17110 = AB16 = 3337

172 years ago (almost to the day: Dec. 7), the first German rail (Ludwigsbahn) commenced operations between Nürnberg and Fürth (where I lived until June); the track was 6 km 40 m long. The distance is slightly longer today because the stations have been moved.

The Vought V-173 (Flying Pancake)was an American Fighter being developed for the US Navy from 1939-1947. Though it made 190 test flights, it never went into production.

174 years ago in November, a spectacular meteor shower.

But what occurred when the Leonids returned in 1833 was far beyond what anyone had ever seen or even imagined possible. For several hours over the United States there was a continual blaze of thousands and thousands of meteors at a time. One estimate was that over 240,000 meteors fell during that period, so many meteors in the sky at a time that many people were woken from their beds and stared at the sky in panic, believing the sky to be on fire. Many feared that it was the end of the world and dreaded what they would see at daybreak.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/a ... 11114.html

Harriet the Tortoise, purportedly collected by C. Darwin himself, died at the age of 175 years in 2006

27 November 176 Julian — Commodus becomes co-emperor to his father, Marcus Aurelius.

We've all seen the movie.

Amsterdam (743,104 residents) is the most multicultural city in the world.
It has 177 different nationalities living in it.
Minorities range from Moroccan (64,588) to Malawian (1).

Just one week before the outbreak of World War II, Germany flew the world's first jet aircraft. That plane was the Heinkel He-178 which, had its development been pushed, might have altered the course of history ... on August 24 and 27, 1939
http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/AERO/HEINHE-178.htm

30 years later, rocket based technology allowed Neil to take one giant leap for mankind. 8)