1004: In Korean, the number 1004 (chun sa) sounds like the word for "angel". It's given its name to 1004 Virus, a campaign to support children with rare diseases in Korea. (GuyBarry)
1005: The Sonderaktion 1005, also called Aktion 1005, or Enterdungsaktion (English: Exhumation action) began in May 1942 to hide any evidence that people had been murdered by Nazi Germany in Aktion Reinhard in occupied Poland. (Strawberry)
1022: 1022 is a "Friedman number". That means that it can be expressed non-trivially using only the normal arithmetic operators and its own digits:(GuyBarry)
1022 = 210 - 2
1027: Dragon Run 1027 was a run of over 1027 miles, carried out solo as a multi day ultramarathon, around the entire perimeter of Wales. Arry Beresford-Webb ran the entire distance, which amounts to the equivalent of 40 marathons, back to back, within 40 days. It was done to raise money for a cancer charity. (bemahan)
1033: In 1033, panic spread throughout Europe that the end of the universe might be near, on the supposed 1,000th anniversary of the crucifixion of Christ, due to some unusually harsh spring weather. The Book of Revelation predicts the end of the earth after a 1000 year period. ('yorz)
1054: In 1054 the people of Earth witnessed a supernova whose remains we now know as the Crab Nebula. (AlmondFacialBar)
1061: The Papal election of 1061 AD saw Alexander II contentiously appointed as Pope. A displeased group elected a rival Pope, Honorius II, and several years of conflict ensued before Alexander was recognised as the legitimate Pope. (Big Martin)
1073: The Neve 1073 preamp and equaliser has been in production since 1970 and is claimed to have been used on numerous famous recordings in the ensuing 40+ years. (Big Martin)
1089: Take any 3-digit number in which the first and last digits differ by 2 or more. Reverse the number, and subtract the smaller of the two numbers from the larger. Then reverse the result and add up these two numbers. The result will always be 1089. Example:(Ian Dunn)
401-104=297 297+792=1089.
1091: Britain's first recorded tornado struck London on 17th October 1091, damaging London Bridge and St. Mary-le-Bow church. (Ian Dunn)
1104: 1104, South Wabash Avenue, built in 1891, is a City of Chicago Landmark (1996) and is listed on the National Register of Historical Places (1980). Built by William LeBaron Jenney, acknowledged as the inventor of the skyscraper for his fire-proofed metal skeleton-frame designs, the Ludington building represents his continuing experimentation as the first entirely terra cotta-clad skyscraper. The Ludington is also a rare survivor, one of only two extant loft buildings in Chicago built by Jenney. (Strawberry)
1114: 11:14 is a 2003 American indie thriller written by Greg Marcks, starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Henry Thomas, Shawn Hatosy, Stark Sands, Colin Hanks, Ben Foster, Barbara Hershey, Clark Gregg, Patrick Swayze and Hilary Swank. The film premiered at various showings at an unusual time, ending the screening exactly at 11:14 PM. (Strawberry)
1127: In the 1932 film, The Music Box, Laurel and Hardy tried to lug a piano up an outdoor staircase to 1127, Walnut Street. That scene was shot at a stairway between 932 and 935, Vendone Street (the stairs start on Vendone Street and end on Descanso Drive, at Del Monte Drive), in the Silver Lake district. In November of 1994, a plaque was put up to honour the spot. (Strawberry)
1135: The first Great Fire of London took place on Pentecost Sunday 1135. It damaged London Bridge and an under-construction St. Paul's Cathedral. (Ian Dunn)
1149: In 2022, the Birkenhead News reported that there were 1,149 sewage dumps in Wirral that affected the New Brighton coastal bathing location. (Ed.)
1158: A teenage fan ran up a bill of £1,158 voting for Lucy Pargeter on I'm A Celebrity. (Big Martin)
1164: 1164 Morning Glory Circle, Westport, Connecticut is the "home" of the TV series Bewitched. (Big Martin)
1177: The book 1177BC by Eric H Cline investigates the fall of the great Bronze Age civilisations. The title comes from the accepted date for the Sea Peoples' invasion of Egypt. (Big Martin)
1194: 1194 is the number of the Australian Speaking Clock. (AlmondFacialBar)
1195: In January, 1195 people received UK New Year's Honours. (Strawberry)
1206: In 1206 Genghis Khan, born Temujin, was proclaimed ruler of all Mongols. (bemahan)
1212: Transmitter 1212 was installed in Luxembourg by the US Army in December 1944 and operated until April 1945, broadcasting a mix of news and speculative propaganda targeted at German soldiers and civilians in the Rhineland in an effort to undermine their morale. (AlmondFacialBar)
1220: In May of 1220, Saint Francis of Assissi resigned from the leadership of the Franciscan Order. (Strawberry)
1234: The song 1234 is from Feist's 3rd album. (Big Martin)
1242: The pulmonary circulation of blood and the division of the heart into two ventricles were first described in 1242 in a paper by the Arab physician Ibn al-Nafis. (AlmondFacialBar)
1245: 1245 Sunflowers is a project to commemorate the same number of soldiers who died in the Great War, from Stockton on Tees. (Awitt)
1249: 1249 is a trimorphic number - one whose cube ends in the original number. 1249 cubed is 1948441249. (Ian Dunn)
1258: It is believed that in 1258 there was a volcanic eruption 8 times as large as the Krakatoa eruption of 1883. The eruption has been linked to the Samalas volcano, in the Mount Rinjani Volcanic Complex on Indonesia’s Lombok Island. (Ian Dunn)
1277: It is claimed that, on average, a UK child has just 1277 days between being born and starting nursery education. (Big Martin)
1294: Moby Dick Chapter 35 or 1294 times E is an artwork by Justin Quinn. (GuyBarry)
1306: 1306 = 11 + 32 + 03 + 64. (tommyk)
1313: The Munsters live at 1313, Mockingbird Lane, a fictional suburb in California. (Strawberry)
1321: In 1321 there was mass scare in France that lepers were poisoning wells. Not only lepers, but Jews and Muslims were attacked during this period of hysteria. (Ian Dunn)
1337: 1337 is a synonym of Leetspeak, a system of modified spellings used primarily on the internet by online gamers and computer hackers. (AlmondFacialBar)
1353: Four boxes known as the Ledge extend off the Skydeck at the Willis Tower, formerly the Sears Tower. The enclosures extend out more than four feet from the building's Skydeck and offer visitors a glass-floor view from 1,353ft above the city. (ellylles)
1360: In 1979, aged 16, Jadav "Molai" Payeng began planting seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in India's Assam region. Now that once-barren sandbar is a sprawling 1,360 acre forest, home to several thousands of varieties of trees and an astounding diversity of wildlife -- including birds, deer, apes, rhino, elephants and even tigers. Officials in the region only learned of the forest, single-handedly planted and cultivated by Payeng and called the "Molai woods" after its creator's nickname, in 2008. (ellylles)
1369: The Urban Dictionary defines a "1369" as a particularly distasteful task to be given, because 13 is unlucky and, er, 69, leaves a bad taste in the mouth. (amdby)
1372: The year 1372 appears to have been the first AD date to appear on coins. These were issued by the city of Aachen. (Big Martin)
1388: The worst excesses of the "Merciless Parliament" were committed in 1388. (Big Martin)
1396: At the time of its completion in October 2014, 432 Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan was the world's tallest residential building at 1396 feet high. (It's now the third tallest.) (AlmondFacialBar)
1410: The famous astrological clock in Prague was built in 1410. (Big Martin)
1411: Apparently, whilst it takes just 1,227 QI Facts To Blow Your Socks Off and only 1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop, it takes 1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways. (ellylles)
1421: Some think that in 1421 the Chinese discovered America. (AlmondFacialBar)
1437: In 2012, Bangor Cathedral in North Wales broke with its ancient tradition of only allowing boys and men to sing. For the first time in 1437 years, an all-girl choir lead the services. (ellylles)
1442: On the 8th November 2014, the Washington Post published a list of the 1,442 items turned over to Metro's lost-and-found department in October. (ellylles)
1452: In March 1452 Frederick III became the last Holy Roman Emperor to actually have a coronation in Rome. (Big Martin)
1460: Dr Marten's 1460 boot is marketed as their "classic" boot. (Big Martin)
1472: On the 31st of December, 1472, the city council of Amsterdam prohibited snowball fights. (Strawberry)
1488: MIL-STD-1488 is the standard which provides standardized provisions for evaluating the quality of trousers procured for and used by the US Military. Although now unclassified at revision G, its original Revision A carried a classification which included a "US Eyes Only" constraint. So there was a time when the quality of US Army trousers was a military secret... (PDR)
1495: On June 1 1495, Friar John Cor recorded the first known batch of Scotch Whisky. (Big Martin)
1506: 15 June (15-06) is the day that annually celebrates wind energy, called Global Wind Day. (vanjeet)
1518: The Dancing Plague of Strasburg occured in 1518. (Big Martin)
1525: According to Merriam-Webster the word "spatula" was first used in the English language in 1525. (vanjeet)
1530: 1530 is a vampire number. That is a number with even digits that can be factorized into two numbers each containing half the original number of digits, such that they contain all the digits of the original number in any order. The factors are called fangs. 1530 = 30 x 51 (vanjeet)
1549: On January 15 2009, US Airways flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson River in New York following a bird strike shortly after take-off. All passengers and crew were picked up safely. (Big Martin)
1557: In 1557, the Welsh-born mathematician Robert Recorde published The Whetstone of Witte in London, containing the first recorded use of the equals sign and also the first use in English in plus and minus signs. (Strawberry)
1567: An advertisement for England's first ever National Lottery was issued in 1567 by Queen Elizabeth I. (ellylles)
1573: The 1573 Bar & Grill in Leicester is in a Grade II listed building - one of the oldest schoolhouses in England. (Big Martin)
1585: In February 2015, over 600 people beat the previous world record by building 1,585 snowmen in the Japanese city of Iiyama. (Big Martin)
1597: 1597 is an emirp ("prime" backwards), that is, a non-palindromic prime number which is prime when reversed as well. (vanjeet)
1608: In 1608 the County Antrim landowner Sir Thomas Phillipps was granted a licence to distil whiskey by King James I. (AlmondFacialBar)
1619: In 1619, René Descartes had a dream that helped him develop his ideas on analytical geometry. (Strawberry)
1624: In 1624 the French parliament passed a law making criticism of Aristotle punishable by death. (Big Martin)
1632: 1632 is a series of alternate history novels by Eric Flint, set in the fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia, in the year 2000. The town is sent back in time to central Germany in the year 1631. (vanjeet)
1638: 1638 is an Ore number, which is a positive integer whose divisors produce an integer harmonic mean. A harmonic mean is the reciprocal of the arithmetic mean of the reciprocal of a given set of numbers. (vanjeet)
1652: Cosmographie was published in 1652 in which Peter Heylin attempted to describe the entire world in English. It is famous for containing the first description of Australia. (vanjeet)
1662: The last widely accepted sighting of a dodo was in 1662. (Strawberry)
1677: On the 23rd April, 1677 a whale wasstranded alive in the Wivner River (thought to be the Colne River now) six miles down from Colchester, but eventually died. The event was seen as newsworthy enough for a special tract to be printed on it. (AlmondFacialBar)
1684: In 1684, Japanese poet Saikaku composed 23, 500 verses in 24 hours at the Suniyoshi Shrine at Osaka; the scribes could not keep pace with his dictation and just counted the verses. (Strawberry)
1695: In 1695, a £2 fine was imposed for swearing in England. (Strawberry)
1706: Thomas Twining opened the first tea room at No. 216 Strand in 1706. Twinings holds the world's oldest continually-used company logo and is London's longest-standing rate-payer. (vanjeet)
1724: 1724 is a brand of tonic water from Argentina, named after the height above sea level where organic quinine is harvested. (tetsabb)
1729: 1729 is known as the Hardy-Ramanujan number after a famous anecdote of the British mathematician G. H. Hardy regarding a visit to the hospital to see the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. In Hardy's words, "I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."(Efros)
1729 = 13 + 123 = 93 + 103
1740: In 1740, Jacques-Barthélemy Micheli du Crest created a temperature scale with 0 set at the "temperature of the terrestrial globe", measured in a cellar 26 m below Paris Observatory, and 100 set to the temperature of boiling water. (vanjeet)
1752: England and Wales lost 11 calendar days in 1752; the calendar advanced from Wednesday 2 September 1752 to Thursday 14 September 1752. This was due to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. (vanjeet)
1761: The Transit of Venus in 1761 was widely observed by astronomers throughout the world, which allowed a lot of important calculations to be made. (Big Martin)
1770: 1770 is a village in Queensland, Australia named for Captain Cook's landing there in May of that year. (Big Martin)
1777: Tu'i Malila (verified as the longest-lived tortoise) was hatched around 1777 and in the same year given by Captain Cook to the Tongan royal family. (vanjeet)
1785: Francis Grose's 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue' was first published in 1785, and is a dictionary of slang words. Grose was one of the first lexicographers to collect slang words from all corners of society, not just from the professional underworld of pickpockets and bandits. (bemahan)
1797: The year 1797 saw the almost farcical French invasion at Fishguard. (Big Martin)
1807: Samuel Hahnemann introduces the term homeopathy, in 1807, in his essay Indications of the Homeopathic Employment of Medicines in Ordinary Practice. (vanjeet)
1816: 1816 was known as the 'Year Without a Summer' because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815. (Strawberry)
1829: The patent for an instrument called the accordion was applied for by Cyrill Demian on the 6th of May, 1829. It was officially approved on the 23rd of May, 1829. (Strawberry)
1839: The Boston Morning Post first recorded the use of "OK" on the 23rd of March, 1839. (Strawberry)
1841: "In eighteen hundred and forty one, I put my corduroy breeches on" are the opening lines of Paddy Works on the Railway. (Alfred E Neuman)
1852: The first public toilet for women was opened in Bedford Street, London, on the 11th of February, 1852. (Strawberry)
1860: In 1860, Dr. Albert Niemann completed a dissertation On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves, in which he describes cocaine as follows: "its solutions have an alkaline reaction, a bitter taste, promote the flow of saliva and leave a peculiar numbness, followed by a sense of cold when applied to the tongue". (vanjeet)
1876: The Bass Brewery Red Triangle became the world's first registered trademark in 1876. (Big Martin)
1884: In 1884, Dr. William Price attempted to cremate the body of his infant son, and was arrested for doing so. It was though that cremation was illegal, but was later discovered that it was not the case and he was freed. This case set a precedent for the Cremation Act. (vanjeet)
1899: The paperclip was patented by Johan Vaaler on the 27th of June, 1899. (Strawberry)
1906: In December 1906, Martha Baer became the first person to undergo sex-change surgery, and later became Karl M. Baer. (vanjeet)
1914: 1914 is the sum of 10 consecutive primes: 1914 = 167 + 173 + 179 + 181 + 191 + 193 + 197 + 199 + 211 + 223. (Efros)
1926: Winnie-the-Pooh was published on the 14th of October, 1926. (Strawberry)
1936: 1936 Guerra Civil (1936 civil war) is a card game in which each player plays one of the sides in the conflict, either the Republic or the Nationalists. (Awitt)
1947: In 1947, the first living organism (fruit fly) was sent to space and returned by the US Army. (vanjeet)
1955: In March 1955 Jim Henson made the first version of Kermit the Frog. (Big Martin)
1962: 1962 is the smallest value of n for which 2n and 9n together use the digits 1-9 exactly once (3924 and 17658). (Ed.)
1977: Australopithecus sediba was a South African species of hominid whose fossil remains are tightly dated to 1.977 million years ago. (AlmondFacialBar)
1982: Number 13 on IMDb's list of "Most Popular People Born In 1982" is Cobie Smulders. No, me neither. (bobwilson)
1990: In March of 2015 an Italian woman made her grandchildren ill by making them hot chocolate with packets with an expiry date of 1990. (Big Martin)
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