7601: On 10 August 1997, Formosa Airlines Flight 7601 crashed and caught fire after it struck a military water tower approximately one kilometre from Matsu Beigan airport in Taiwan. All 16 passengers and crew on board were killed. (Brock)
7602: Bennie Hill in Montana has an elevation of 7,602 feet. (Big Martin)
7603: It was reported on March 3rd that 7603 Russians had been arrested for protesting against the war in Ukraine. (Brock)
7604: Twenty-two year old William Harvey was sentenced to death for bestiality in 1848, which was then commuted to life transportation. In 1858 he was released from Portsmouth prison under licence number 7604. (Big Martin)
7605: 7605 mining titles were issued in the Nigerian minerals industry in the last five years. (Brock)
7606: NGC 7606 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Aquarius discovered by William Herschel on September 28, 1785. (Big Martin)
7607: 7607 is a prime with an index which is a prime with a prime index. (163 is prime, the 163rd prime is 967, and the 967th prime is 7607.) (Brock)
7608: A 54 man capsule lifeboat weighing 7,608 lbs can be hired from Survival Systems International. (Big Martin)
7609: The price of ethereum is expected to hit $7609 in 2022. Ether is the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization and is the most popular blockchain for decentralized applications (it says here). (Brock)
7610: Wickham Trolley works number 7610 was built for BR in 1957 and is now at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway in North Yorkshire. (Big Martin)
7611: As of 16 December last year, there were 7611 people in UK hospitals with Covid-19. (Brock)
7612: The House of Commons Library briefing paper CBP7612 covers Impeachment. (Big Martin)
7613: The ʻakikiki is a critically endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper endemic to Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi, which gives its name to the minor planet 7613 ʻAkikiki. (Brock)
7614: 76:14 is the second studio album by English electronic music duo Global Communication. (Big Martin)
7615: William Barnett was a British engineer who did some very early work on the gas internal combustion engine. In 1838 he filed UK patent 7615, entitled "Obtaining motive power from inflammable gases by compression and explosion". (Brock)
7616: According to Safety & Health Practitioner, on average 7,616 people around the world die each day from accidents at work or work related ill health. (Big Martin)
7617: Horses is a new Los Angeles restaurant at 7617 Sunset Boulevard, which for more than 70 years was the address of Ye Coach & Horses, a British pub that counted Richard Burton and Alfred Hitchcock as patrons. (Brock)
7618: Aircraft B-7618 is a Boeing 737-84P operated by Hainan Airlines. (Big Martin)
7619: 7619 = 203 - 202 + 20 - 1. (Brock)
7620: In July 2016, air diver Luke Aikins broke the world record by jumping from 7,620 metres without a parachute. (Big Martin)
7621: Professional Beauty Group hosted its first-ever online event in September 2020, which brought together 7621 beauty, spa, aesthetic and hair professionals for three days of networking and knowledge-sharing. (Brock)
7622: Nautical Chart NZ 7622 covers the area from Milford Sound to Sutherland Sound in New Zealand. (Big Martin)
7623: There were a total of 7623 bank branches in South Korea at the end of 2011. (Brock)
7624: The Stimo Arena, also known as the Eishalle Schluefweg, the Kolping Arena and the Swiss Arena is an indoor arena in Kloten, Switzerland with a capacity of 7,624 people. (Big Martin)
7625: A Ukrainian internet star cat called Stepan and his owner Anna have fundraised £7625 to be donated to six Ukrainian animal charities. The World Influencers and Bloggers Association offered to take them to France after Russian shells dropped on their home in Kharkiv, in northeast Ukraine. (Brock)
7626: 7626 Graffiti Protection is a coating designed to allow easy removal of graffiti from surfaces. (Big Martin)
7627: Between the coup on February 1 and August 31 2021, the Myanmar junta arrested a total of 7627 people. (Brock)
7628: BR diesel locomotive D7628 was one of the last batch of that class built and is now on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. (Big Martin)
7629: Taken together, 7629 and its fifth multiple contain all the digits 1-9 once and once only: 7629 x 5 = 38145. (Brock)
7630: 7630 Squadron RAuxAF was initially formed in 1958 to provide a pool of Russian linguists and is now a Subject Matter Experts squadron within the Intelligence Reserves Wing. (Big Martin)
7631: Only 5% of the 7631 people referred to the Government's Prevent counter-extremism programme in 2015-16 ended up in specialist support to turn them away from terrorism. (Brock)
7632: The single Message In A Bottle by The Police was released by A & M Records in 1979 as AMS 7632. (Big Martin)
7633: 7633 is the postcode of Frosta in Norway, the administrative centre of the Frosta municipality. It had a population of 533 in 2018. (Brock)
7634: The KrAZ-7634 is an 8x8 off-road truck manufactured in Ukraine since 2014. (Big Martin)
7635: The national median price of farmland in Australia is currently $7635 per hectare. (Brock)
7636: In 2020 there were 7,636 mutual funds in the United States. (Big Martin)
7637: In the (Gregorian) year 7637, Ascension Day will fall in April (in the Western Christian calendar). This is a pretty rare occurrence as Ascension Day is 39 days after Easter and can only fall in April if Easter Day is on its earliest possible date, March 22. (This last happened in 1818 and won't happen again until 2285.) (Brock)
7638: Sherwin-Williams paint SW7638 is called Jogging Path. Why? (Big Martin)
7639: And why would anyone need a chart showing how to count in multiples of 7639? I suppose it might come in useful one day... (Brock)
7640: Tollmann's bolide hypothesis postulates that one or more asteroids or comets struck the Earth around 7640 BCE. It has been largely rejected by specialist scientists. (Big Martin)
7641: 7641 Islands of the Philippines is the title of a new digital magazine published by the Philippines Department of Tourism. (Brock)
7642: Trigpoint TP7642 is an active station with an antenna mounted on the rowing club building in Exmouth, Devon. (Big Martin)
7643: The Conservative candidate Ruth Edwards held Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire at the 2019 election with a majority of 7643 over Labour. She inherited the seat from the veteran Tory MP Ken Clarke, who had held the seat since 1970. (Brock)
7644: Pantone 7644 C is a rather nice dark chocolate brown. (AlmondFacialBar)
7645: After WW2, a displaced persons camp was set up in Pocking in Bavaria and it housed 7,645 people in 1946. (Big Martin)
7646: Only a third of rental properties in England and Wales currently have an EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) rating of C or above. The cost of bringing the rest up to a C rating - as is legally required by 2028 - is estimated at a minimum of £7646 per property. (Brock)
7647: CAS code 7647-01-0 applies to Hydrogen Chloride. With all the hazard statements on the site I've linked to, I don't think I'll be buying any! (Big Martin)
7648: Tom Boles is a Scottish amateur astronomer who holds the record for spotting the most supernovae (149). In 2008 the inner main-belt asteroid 7648 Tomboles was named in his honour. (Brock)
7649: Loctite SF 7649 is a surface preparation activator. (Big Martin)
7650: The Big 7650! is a single-player event match in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. In it, the player controls Pac-Man, and must get a combo of 6 hits with his Final Smash, Super Pac-Man (giving 7650 points), within a time limit of 15 seconds. (Brock)
7651: In 2017 it was revealed that 7,651 banned drivers in Ireland were still on the road. (Big Martin)
7652: 7652 is the AQA code for A-Level French. (Brock)
7653: The 7653 wireless repeater for your weather station is available for £306. (Big Martin)
7654: 7654 has digits that descend by one at a time. (In the unlikely event that you need to verify this, it's in OEIS; see also the post for 6543.) (Brock)
7655: The Experience events during the Otillo Swimrun Gothenburg in August this year will be a total of 7,655 metres - 1,165 metres swimming and 6,490 metres running. (Big Martin)
7656: Kantar, the data analytics and brand consulting company, can be contacted on 020 7656 5700 and has the great address of 6 More London Place, London SE1 6TY. (Brock)
7657: 10 U.S. Code 7657 covers the sale of ammunition for avalanche-control purposes. (Big Martin)
7658: R.A. 7658, or "An Act Prohibiting the Employment of Children below 15 Years of Age in Public and Private Undertakings", was a law passed in the Philippines in October 1993. (Brock)
7659: Derbyshire Historic Environment Record SDR7659 is titled Excavations at Melandra Castle, Derbyshire, 1969. (Big Martin)
7660: National Grid has recently sold a 60% stake in its gas transmission arm to Macquarie, the Australian finance house. Macquarie thinks that the 7660 kilometres of high-pressure UK pipelines could become a conduit for hydrogen. (Brock)
7661: WhichMuseum entry 7661 is the Latvian Railway History Museum in Riga. (Big Martin)
7662: Between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021, a total of 7662 people were born in Nova Scotia, Canada. (Brock)
7663: ASP-7663 is a chemical compound that acts as a potent, selective activator of the TRPA1 channel and has protective effects on cardiac tissue. (Big Martin)
7664: The IT company Fujitsu recently took 7664 square feet of space in the Verdant building at South Gyle Business Park in Edinburgh. (Brock)
7665: Recording AV7665 on AVoCet is of the wonderfully named Lesser Racket-tailed Drongo (Dicrurus remifer tectirostris). (Big Martin)
7666: 7666 belongs to the set of numbers k such that k and k2 use only the digits 5, 6, 7 and 8:and so on. (Brock)
762 = 5776 7662 = 586756 76662 = 58767556 766662 = 5877675556 7666662 = 587776755556
7667: BR locomotive D7667 was the 1,000th diesel locomotive to be built at Derby Locomotive Works and bore special plates to mark this fact, one of which was sold at auction for £400 in 2010. (Big Martin)
7668: 7668 houses were partially damaged in Miyagi prefecture when a powerful earthquake struck off Japan's northeast coast on March 16 this year. (Brock)
7669: 7669 was an American R&B girl group active in the mid 1990s. (Big Martin)
7670: The 7670 Event Center is a performance and event venue in Hamilton, Ohio. (Brock)
7671: British Standard BS 7671 is "Requirements for Electrical Installations" or The Regs as it is known in the trade. (Big Martin)
7672: During a quarter of each year on Uranus, the sun is directly over each pole of the planet, which causes the other half of the planet to experience a perpetually dark winter that lasts almost 7672 Earth days. (Brock)
7673: In 2016, 7,673 people in England got taken to hospital after being mauled by a dog. (Big Martin)
7674: The UK government's current proposal to deal with illegal boat arrivals is partly based on Operation Sovereign Borders, the controversial Australian policy of offshore processing, detention and turnbacks introduced by Tony Abbott's government in 2013. In the first year of Operation Sovereign Borders, the number of boats arriving illegally in Australia fell from 104 to one and the number of people pulling off the journey from 7674 to 158. (Brock)
7675: The Aragonese Vara or Ell was 0.7675 metres in length. (Big Martin)
7676: This weekend the Team Townend Challenge takes place in Loweswater, Cumbria. It's a cycling fundraiser in memory of Christian and Niggy Townend, who were killed on their bikes in 2010, and one of the routes is known as the Dirty Double (66 miles, 7676 feet climbing). (Brock)
7677: 7677 is a song by American indie rock band Colossal. (Big Martin)
7678: There are 7678 primes between 400,000 and 500,000. (Brock)
7679: Wellcome Collection MS.7679 is part of ship's surgeon Richard Copithorne's 1934 diary of his journey from Birkenhead to the Dutch East Indies and Malaysia on board the M.V. Stentor. (Big Martin)
7680: 8K UHD is the highest resolution defined in the Rec. 2020 (Ultra-High Definition TV) standard, referring to an image resolution of 7680 x 4320 pixels. (Brock)
7681: The World Record for participants in an outdoor snowball fight is 7,681 and was set in Saskatoon, Canada in January 2016. Coincidentally, the World Record for participants in a pillow fight is also 7,681 and was set in Minneapolis in May 2018. (Big Martin)
7682: The fax number for the Local Government Ombudsman is 024 7682 0001. (Brock)
7683: In the Whitchurch Park ward of south Bristol 7,683 people out of a population of 11,061 identified as Christians in the 2011 census. (Big Martin)
7684: Ross Taylor, who retired from international cricket this month, played 112 Test matches for New Zealand in which he scored 7684 runs. (Brock)
7685: Highland Historic Environment Record MHG7685 is the remains of St. Maelrubha's Monastery in Applecross. A new saint on me, but here's a bit more about him. (Big Martin)
7686: The Internet Engineering Task Force's RFC 7686 registers the ".onion" top-level domain name, which is used to provide access to end-to-end encrypted, secure, anonymized services. (Brock)
7687: Viktor Gruzenkin's score of 7,687 points for the decathlon in the M45 Division at the 1997 World Championships is the current World Record. (Big Martin)
7688: 7688 = 8 x 312. From which I deduce that it's also 2 x 622. (Brock)
7689: Bristol Museum's object T7689 is a Kismet board game - an early version of snakes and ladders. (Big Martin)
7690: The Ducati Futa electric racing bicycle was unveiled last month at a cost of €7690. (Brock)
7691: AZ-Model 7691 is a 1/72nd plastic kit of the Saunders-Roe SR.53, a combined jet and rocket propelled prototype fighter aircraft of the 1950s. (Big Martin)
7692: At the 2001 census, the parish of Ottery St Mary in Devon had a population of 7692. (Brock)
7693: According to UNHCR, 7,693 people from Georgia fled and sought asylum in other countries in 2020. (Big Martin)
7694: Specimen number 7694 at the Roman Provincial Coinage project at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford comes from the reign of Antoninus Pius. The reverse design is described as "Men standing with foot on bucranium, r., wearing Phrygian cap, holding long sceptre and pine cone; behind his shoulders, crescent". (Brock)
7695: The 7695 is an events space in Nashville, Tennessee. (Big Martin)
7696: It was reported on 4 March that 7696 Azerbaijani citizens had left Ukraine since the start of hostilities. (Brock)
7697: 7697 Miles are a dance/electronic group. (Big Martin)
7698: Aspirin use is associated with a 26% raised risk of heart failure in people with at least one predisposing factor for the condition, according to the results of a study published last year in ESC Heart Failure. At baseline, a total of 7698 participants (25% of the total) were taking aspirin. During the 5.3-year follow-up, 1330 participants developed heart failure. (Brock)
7699: The pub The Loco in Haxey is in grid square SK7699. (Big Martin)
7700: A "squawk code" is a code assigned by Air Traffic Control that pilots enter into their transponder that identifies the aircraft on the controller's screen. Squawk code 7700 is reserved for emergency situations and immediately alerts Air Traffic Control and other units that the aircraft squawking 7700 is in distress. (Brock)
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