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Postby Superluminal » Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:03 am

1976 was the year of the U.S. bicentennial.
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Postby Lance » Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:35 am

77 Sunset Strip was the address of Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer.
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Postby Arneb » Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:18 pm

1978: The ignominy of Córdoba, already mentioned elsewhere... :oops:
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Postby umop ap!sdn » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:26 am

Voyagers 1 and 2 encounter Jupiter on March 5th and July 9th (respectively), 1979.
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Postby Мастер » Mon Oct 22, 2007 3:14 am

80 mph is about how fast the faster traffic on US-315 tends to go.
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Postby KLA2 » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:14 pm

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:
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Postby troubleagain » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:46 pm

Winston Churchill was 82 when he wrote "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples".
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Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:59 pm

83 AD The battle of Mons Graupius
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Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:59 pm

84 AD The battle of Mons Graupius (sources differ). :D
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Postby KLA2 » Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:58 pm

185 AD Chinese astronomers note in the Astrological Annals of the Houhanshu sight supernova now identified as RCW 86, the earliest identified supernova.
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Postby Superluminal » Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:20 am

1986 was the last time Halley's Comet visited the inner solar system.
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Postby KLA2 » Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:03 am

February 23, 1987: Supernova 1987A is observed (the first "naked-eye" supernova since 1604).
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Postby troubleagain » Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:57 pm

88 keys on a piano!

(Ha! an easy one!)
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Postby umop ap!sdn » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:35 pm

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). :lol:
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Postby KLA2 » Thu Oct 25, 2007 9:43 pm

1990 Hubble Space Telescope launched. :=D:

Year 90 the great Greek (or maybe Egyptian) astrologer Ptolemy was born; he also messed with that silly astronomy thing. :lol:
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Postby Arneb » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:33 pm

91 years ago: Battle of Verdun
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Postby troubleagain » Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:59 pm

1992--John Gotti gets life in prison.
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Postby KLA2 » Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:15 pm

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.
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Postby troubleagain » Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:55 pm

1994--John Wayne Gacy executed. (Serial killers fascinate me.)
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Postby Arneb » Fri Oct 26, 2007 6:03 pm

KLA2 wrote: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
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Postby KLA2 » Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:44 am

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 ... :-k
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Postby Arneb » Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:58 am

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...
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Postby KLA2 » Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:07 am

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


:=D: ^ 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:
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Postby KLA2 » Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:21 am

troubleagain wrote:::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 ..." :roll:

But I must defer to "The Great One." :glp-worship:

(Don't be presumptuous, TA. I meant Gretzky) :lol:
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Postby Halcyon Dayz, FCD » Sat Oct 27, 2007 4:45 am

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