1667

This number is a prime.

+ Vega was bleating out prime numbers in the 1667 megahertz hydroxyl line in Contact (Carl Sagan's only science fiction novel).

+ Smallest prime containing the fax number of the beast (667).

+ The year in which the English Parliament passed a law against fining or imprisoning jurors for returning the "wrong" verdict. [NYULR93] [NYU Law Review]

+ The first astronomer who first noticed Algol's fade-downs was Geminiano Montanari of Bologna, Italy, around 1667. [Fleenor]

+ The prime meridian ran through Paris in 1667.

+ Rock climber Alex Honnold free-climbed a 1667-foot skyscraper in Taiwan. [Breitbart]

+ 1667 is the smaller in a set of twin primes for which the sum of digits of each is exactly twice the sum of digits of its prime index. [Gaydos]

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