Illuminati-R-Us

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

83 AD The battle of Mons Graupius

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

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

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

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

88 keys on a piano!

(Ha! an easy one!)

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).

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.

91 years ago: Battle of Verdun

1992--John Gotti gets life in prison.

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.

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

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

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 ...

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...

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.)

^ 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:

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 ..."

But I must defer to "The Great One."

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

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