8901: At the time of the Argentinian invasion in 1982, the Falkland Islands were defended by Naval Party 8901, a small group lightly armed with small arms, machine guns and a few mortars and anti-tank weapons. There were about 43 men in each division, but as it happened the invasion took place around the time of the annual changeover, so there were actually two detachments on the islands at the time. (Brock)
8902: 8902 Records is a Japanese record label. (Big Martin)
8903: There have been 8903 episodes of Neighbours. (Brock)
8904: The British Journal of Sports Medicine carried an article on the "analysis of water polo injuries during 8904 player matches at FINA World Championships and Olympic games to make the sport safer". (Big Martin)
8905: 8905 times its successor gives the concatenation of a number with itself: 8905 x 8906 = 79307930. 8905 is the only four-digit number with this property. (Brock)
8906: Here is a link to an article about a cinema that closed down in 1961. Its address was 8906, W. Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90035, United States. (Strawberry)
8907: David Watts, the Liberal Democrat candidate in Broxtowe at the 2010 general election, came third with 8907 votes. The winner was the Conservative Anna Soubry, who only squeaked home by 389 votes. (Brock)
8908: Nickel has a density of 8908 kg·m-3. (AlmondFacialBar)
8909: The South African digital agency 8909 recently appointed Nigel Matthews as executive creative director. (Brock)
8910: The General Instrument AY-3-8910 is a 3-voice programmable sound generator produced from 1978 and used in many arcade games. (Big Martin)
8911: SA Airlink Flight 8911 crashed into the grounds of Merebank Secondary School, Durban, South Africa shortly after take-off on 24 September 2009, injuring the three occupants of the aircraft and one on the ground. There were no passengers on the flight, and the school was closed for a public holiday. The captain subsequently died of his injuries. (Brock)
8912: 3M product 8912 is "Scotchlite" - the stuff for doing reflective strips on clothes etc. (Big Martin)
8913: Iran, Russia and China have recently started joint naval exercises off the coast of Oman. The Russian naval group includes the medium sea tanker Kama, which has a full load displacement of 8913 tons. (Brock)
8914: The Cambridge American Cemetery commemorates 8,914 people. (Big Martin)
8915: Another election result - but I've actually managed to track down a copy of the official Declaration of Result of Poll. This was in Richmond (Yorks) at the 2005 general election, when the Labour candidate Neil Foster polled 8915 votes, coming a distant second to William Hague, the former Conservative leader and future Foreign Secretary. The seat is currently held by Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister. (Brock)
8916: The highest point in Parsnip Peak Wilderness in Nevada is at an elevation of 8,916 feet. (Big Martin)
8917: In 2019, there were 8917 serious injuries caused by motor vehicle accidents in Canada. (Brock)
8918: Baguley 0-4-0 diesel locomotive 3410 cost £8,918 when it was purchased by Marston's brewery in 1955. It subsequently shunted coal wagons near my house at Filton coal depot, before ending up at the Chasewater Railway. (Big Martin)
8919: The London Fog was a 1960s nightclub located at 8919 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, California. It is notable for being the venue where The Doors had their first regular gigs for several months in early 1966. Today the location is occupied by a barbershop. (Brock)
8920: The wreck of the fishing vessel Katmai lies in 8,920 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico. (Big Martin)
8921: There are 8921 sets of integer-sided rectangular pieces that can tile a 2x14 rectangle. (Brock)
8922: Here is a photo of bus ODZ 8922 driving around the Centre in Bristol. It had a Dennis Lance SLF chassis and Wright Pathfinder bodywork. (Big Martin)
8923: The Bermuda Police Service issued 8923 traffic tickets from 6 July 2021 (the start of "Operation Vega") to the end of February 2023. (Brock)
8924: The London Borough of Haringey has a population density of 8,924 people per square kilometre. (Big Martin)
8925: Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been illegal in the UK since 1985, yet (as of April 2018) there has not been a single successful prosecution for the offence. In England, there were 8925 attendances where FGM was identified or a procedure for FGM was carried out in 2017. (Brock)
8926: In the referendum for the Twenty-third Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland on 07-Jun-2001, 8926 voters in the Dublin Central constituency voted No, unsuccessfully trying to prevent Ireland from becoming party to the International Criminal Court. (AlmondFacialBar)
8927: The Invicta Pro Diver 8927 Unisex Stainless Automatic Watch is available on Amazon for £104.40. (Brock)
8928: According to the Reuse Network 8,928 people are supported by the charity reuse sector. (Big Martin)
8929: 8929 is a prime which is the concatenation of two two-digit primes (89 and 29). (Brock)
8930: John Potter Photography's image 8930 is of Selwick Bay in Yorkshire. (Big Martin)
8931: The revenue of the construction group Balfour Beatty in 2022 was £8931 million. (Brock)
8932: The Wellcome Collection's MS.8932 is a medieval embroidered folded almanac. (Big Martin)
8933: The second most-edited Wikipedia page of 2016 was the one on Donald Trump, with 8933 edits. It was beaten only by "Deaths in 2016" (18,230 edits). (Brock)
8934: Between January and March 2022, 1,549 out of 8,934 flights arriving at or departing from Bristol Airport experienced delays. (Big Martin)
8935: 8935 spectators attended Vicarage Road for Watford's third-round FA Cup match against Bradford on 7 January 2012. (Brock)
8936: Numbering some 8,936 people, the largest French Australian community is in New South Wales. (Big Martin)
8937: 8937 = 333 - (33-3)3. (Brock)
8938: Question 8938 in the Minutes of Evidence from the Select Committee on the Crossrail Bill makes reference to the bells of St Dunstan's church being the "Bells of Stepney" from the famous nursery rhyme. (Big Martin)
8939: In 2019, 8939 breeding and store sheep were imported from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. (Brock)
8940: Mount Flanuten in Queen Maud Land, Antarctica has an elevation of 8,940 feet. (Big Martin)
8941: In 2019 the RNLI launched its lifeboats 8941 times around the coast of the UK and Ireland, aiding 9379 people. (Brock)
8942: British Airways flight BA8942 is a regular flight from Dublin to Bristol. (Big Martin)
8943: In Oxford West and Abingdon at the 2019 general election, the sitting Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran increased her majority over the Conservatives to 8943. (Brock)
8944: This is Andertoons turkey cartoon 8944. (Big Martin)
8945: There were 8945 cases of fare evasion on Singapore's bus and train services in 2015. (Brock)
8946: In 2020, cyclist Fiona Cockburn set a new Scottish Everesting record of 8,946 metres in 12 hours and 48 minutes by cycling up a hill near Garelochhead 63 times non-stop. (Big Martin)
8947: LibriVox author 8947 is the former British Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee. (Brock)
8948: McDonnell Douglas DC9 aircraft N8948E was written off after a bad landing at Pensacola on December 27 1987. (Big Martin)
8949: The Samuel Goldwyn Theater is located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California. (Brock)
8950: 8950 is the product code for a Dell desktop computer. (Awitt)
8951: In modern Western music, a perfect fifth is generally taken to be equivalent to 7/12 of an octave; but a much better approximation to its "true" value is 5236/8951 of an octave. More in the original post. (Brock)
8952: Edison Gold Moulded Record 8952 from 1905 is of the Edison Military Band performing the "There's A Dark Man Coming With A Bundle" medley. (Big Martin)
8953: Arapaho Pass, elevation 8953 feet, is a mountain pass that crosses the Continental Divide in the Rabbit Ears Range of the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado in the United States. (Brock)
8954: 8954 Eureka Lock Road is an old corn crib listed by the Wisconsin Historical Society. (Big Martin)
8955: The civil rights activist Rosa Parks was honoured in December 2019 with a plaque inside San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency bus 8955. (Brock)
8956: 8956 Hotdogs is in St Petersburg, Russia. (Big Martin)
8957: 8957 fraud and computer misuse offences were referred to Surrey Police in 2021. (Brock)
8958: Breguet product 8958 is the Reine de Naples wristwatch priced at £63,500. (Big Martin)
8959: Minor planet 8959 Oenanthe takes its name from Oenanthe oenanthe, the biological name for the wheatear. (Brock)
8960: 8960 is a 2021 album by Hash. (Big Martin)
8961: The concatenation of 7 and 8961 is a perfect square (78961 = 2812). (Brock)
8962: The World Record for the most people making snow angels simultaneously was set at the State Capitol Grounds in Bismarck, North Dakota on February 17th 2007 by 8,962 people. (Big Martin)
8963: The German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) covers an area of 8963 square miles. (Brock)
8964: Apparently, 8964 is code referring to the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. (Big Martin)
8965: In 1997, there were 8965 novels published in Britain. (Brock)
8966: The 1971 Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Civil Aviation is Document 8966. (Big Martin)
8967: 8967 complaints of illegal fireworks were reported to the New York authorities from June 1 to June 22 2020. The equivalent number in 2019 was 28. (Brock)
8968: 8968 hours comes to 373 days and 16 hours. (Awitt)
8969: Air France Flight 8969 was an Air France flight that was hijacked on 24 December 1994 by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) at Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers. (Brock)
8970: The US military's survival, abandon ship ration has an order number of 8970-01-434-3192. (Big Martin)
8971: There is a gap of 28 between the prime number 8971 and the next prime number (whose value is left as an exercise to the reader). (Brock)
8972: Portable Antiquities Scheme item SUSS-5E8972 is a letter opener in the form of a sword discovered by a metal detectorist in Kent. (Big Martin)
8973: In 2018, a man called William Taylor posted a video to YouTube claiming that he had visited the year 8973 and seen "something horrifying". At the time of writing, I'm not entirely sure what it was! (Brock)
8974: The 8974 is a power tetrode designed for megawatt power levels in industrial and broadcast applications. (Big Martin)
8975: The Reber Vertical Professional Sausage Stuffer 8975 V. has a capacity of 15 litres and is made of stainless steel. (Brock)
8976: Wideopen in Northumberland has a population of 8,976 people. (Big Martin)
8977: 8977 foreigners (mostly Haitians) were repatriated from the Dominican Republic during the first weeks of January 2023 (report dated Jan. 18). (Brock)
8978: 8978 Barbatus is an asteroid of 13.84 absolute magnitude. (Big Martin)
8979: The digits 8979 occur at the 11th place of the decimal expansion of pi: 3.14159265358979323846... (Brock)
8980: 8980 is a song by Gabriel Kahane inspired by a journey of that many miles across the USA. (Big Martin)
8981: The total length of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge from abutment to abutment is 8981 feet (only 8980 feet if you read the infobox!). (Brock)
8982: Hawsker was a railway station on the Scarborough to Whitby line. It was never well used and only sold 8,982 tickets in 1922. The line was, inevitably, axed during the Beeching cuts in the 1960s. (Big Martin)
8983: The area of Yellowstone National Park is 8983 square kilometres. (Brock)
8984: DEFRA monitoring site 8984 is at on the Sydling Water in Dorset. (Big Martin)
8985: There were 8985 finishers in the 2009 Greifenseelauf half marathon in the Swiss canton of Zurich. (Brock)
8986: Pyriform Mountain is an 8,986 feet high mountain summit in the Highwood Range of the Canadian Rockies. (Big Martin)
8987: A previous post asserted that 5398 is a member of the "sort then add" sequence beginning with 5 (put the digits in ascending numerical order, then add to the original number). The next member of the sequence is therefore 3589 + 5398 = 8987. (Brock)
8988: Fowler road locomotive "Nightmare" has the registration SV 8988. (Big Martin)
8989: 8989 is in the title for the movie 8989 Redstone. (Awitt)
8990: Minor planet 8990 was named Compassion to honour the victims of the 9/11 attacks. (Brock)
8991: ICAO Doc 8991 is the Manual on Air Traffic Forecasting and is available for $102 from their online store if anyone's so inclined. (Big Martin)
8992: 8992 kHz is one of the voice frequencies used by the High Frequency Global Communications System, a network of shortwave transmitters used by the US Air Force to communicate with aircraft in flight. (Brock)
8993: The 73 night Grand Africa Voyage on the Zuiderdam departing from Fort Lauderdale on October 10th this year costs £8,993. (Big Martin)
8994: There were 8994 staff based at the Bletchley Park codebreaking centre during World War II. (Brock)
8995: In 2008 the North Bristol Trampoline Club was awarded a grant of £8,995 from the National Lottery Community Fund. (Big Martin)
8996: In 1996 there were 8996 exposures to mushrooms reported to poison centres across the US. (Brock)
8997: London Remembers memorial 8997 is for Longman's Ship Binding Works which ceased production after being hit by a bomb in WW2. (Big Martin)
8998: 8998 is the largest four-digit palindrome k such that k + 11 is also a palindrome (in this case 9009, obviously). (Brock)
8999: In 2018 Tatachem Dav Public School in India set a record for writing 8,999 slogans for a save birds campaign in 2 hours. (Big Martin)
9000: The A9000 is one of the few classified roads in Britain that don't carry regular motor traffic. It's the number that was allocated to the (1964) Forth Road Bridge, after the new Queensferry Crossing was opened in 2017. The new bridge forms part of the M90, and since its opening the old bridge has been limited to public transport vehicles and non-motorway users for its entire length. The old bridge retains the facility to accept motorway traffic in the case of a closure of the new bridge. (Brock)
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