Any Facts that Fit the Numbers

[Superluminal]

1976 was the year of the U.S. bicentennial.

[Lance]

77 Sunset Strip was the address of Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer.

[Arneb]

1978: The ignominy of Córdoba, already mentioned elsewhere...

[umop ap!sdn]

Voyagers 1 and 2 encounter Jupiter on March 5th and July 9th (respectively), 1979.

[Мастер]

80 mph is about how fast the faster traffic on US-315 tends to go.

[KLA2]

81 is the square of 9 and the fourth power of 3. Like all powers of three, 81 is a perfect totient number It is a heptagonal number and a centered octagonal number. It is also a tribonacci number, an open meandric number. 81 is the ninth member of the Mian-Chowla sequence.

In base 10, it is a Harshad number, and one of three numbers (the other two are 1458 and 1729) which, when its digits are added together, produces a sum which, when multiplied by its reversed self, yields the original number.

{Yes, folks, I Googled that} :wink:

[troubleagain]

Winston Churchill was 82 when he wrote "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples".

[Heid the Ba]

83 AD The battle of Mons Graupius

[Heid the Ba]

84 AD The battle of Mons Graupius (sources differ). :D

[KLA2]

185 AD Chinese astronomers note in the Astrological Annals of the Houhanshu sight supernova now identified as RCW 86, the earliest identified supernova.

[Superluminal]

1986 was the last time Halley's Comet visited the inner solar system.

[KLA2]

February 23, 1987: Supernova 1987A is observed (the first "naked-eye" supernova since 1604).

[troubleagain]

88 keys on a piano!

(Ha! an easy one!)

[umop ap!sdn]

1989 - the year of the great SF earthquake. Oh yeah and Voyager 2's Neptune encounter (the only part of the Voyager mission I actually remember).

[KLA2]

1990 Hubble Space Telescope launched.

Year 90 the great Greek (or maybe Egyptian) astrologer Ptolemy was born; he also messed with that silly astronomy thing.

[Arneb]

91 years ago: Battle of Verdun

[troubleagain]

1992--John Gotti gets life in prison.

[KLA2]

1993 the HST can't go to the shop, so the shop goes to the HST ... STS 61, a truly awesome mission for the Endeavour crew.

[troubleagain]

1994--John Wayne Gacy executed. (Serial killers fascinate me.)

[Arneb]

95 years ago, the RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg and sinks, a tragedy and mystery. Many positive changes in maritime and shipbuilding law result.

95 years ago today: Don Siegel, of Dirty Harry and Body Snatchers fame, born in England

[KLA2]

1996 IBM Deep Blue computer won a 6 game exhibition chess match against world champion (Grandmaster) Garry Kasparov. Something thought impossible (except in science fiction) in previous decades ...

[Arneb]

Pitatus crater on the Moon, is 97 km across.

Ah yes, O.K. someone died in a car crash in 1997 as well.

But it doesn't always have to be years...

[KLA2]

Windows 98 has a better-looking user interface than Windows XP. (IMHO, so maybe not a fact. But 98 isn't a great number.)

^ Right on.

Atomic Number: 98
Name: Californium
Symbol: Cf
Atomic Weight: 251
Electron configuration: 1s22s22p63s23p63d104s24p64d105s25p64f145d105f106s26p67s2

Also: 98% of board members will think I Googled this. The other 2% will be wrong. :wink:

[KLA2]

::grumble, grumble simulpost grumble::

99--the number of Wayne Gretzky's retired jersey.

Aaaargh! I wanted to do "99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer ..."

But I must defer to "The Great One."

(Don't be presumptuous, TA. I meant Gretzky)

[Halcyon Dayz, FCD]

100° Celsius is the boiling temperature of (pure) water (at sea level).