1001: One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of West and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is known in English as The Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment. (Strawberry)
1002: 1002 Terrible Puns includes such gems as the following: "As I only just failed my trial as a mortuary assistant, they said I cadaver second go". (GuyBarry)
1003: 1,003 Great Things About Getting Older is a 1997 book by Lisa Birnbach, Patricia Marx, David Owen and Ann Hodgman. It was mentioned in a Cracked article. (Strawberry)
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)
1006: The supernova SN 1006, the brightest stellar event in history, occurred between 30 April and 1 May in AD 1006. In 2012 - coincidentally 1006 years later - a team of researchers from the University of Barcelona found that it probably occurred as a result of the merger of two white dwarfs. (GuyBarry)
1007: In Batman: The Animated Series, an address is given for Wayne Manor in the episode "The Demon's Quest" stating that it is located at 1007, Mountain Drive, Gotham. (Strawberry)
1008: Dan-Air Flight 1008 crashed on 25 April 1980 on a non-scheduled flight from Manchester to Tenerife, killing all 146 on board. (GuyBarry)
1009: 1009 Sirene is a Mars-crosser asteroid. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth on October 31, 1923 and named after the mythological Sirens. (Strawberry)
1010: The twelve pentominoes are a set of figures formed by joining five squares edge to edge, which can be used in a variety of geometrical puzzles. In particular, they can be used to construct a 5x12 rectangle in exactly 1010 different ways. (GuyBarry)
1011: Stargazer, registration number N140SC, is a modified Lockheed L-1011 TriStar aircraft used by Orbital Sciences Corporation as a mother ship launch pad for Pegasus rockets. As for June 2012, 35 rockets have been launched from it, using the Pegasus-H and Pegasus-XL configurations. (Strawberry)
1012: Project 1012 is an initative to clean up Amsterdam's notorious red light district and "coffee-shop" industry, named after the district in which much of it is situated. (GuyBarry)
1013: 1013 Briar Lane ia a 2009 documentary about a haunted house. It was directed by Michael Bayouth. (Strawberry)
1014: The aim of 1014 The G.W. County Project is "to create, on behalf of the Great Western Society, a County Class locomotive, in late British Railways condition, as authentically as possible, within cost constraints, to satisfy the requirements of the appropriate technical and safety authorities". It is modelled on the original 1014 'County of Glamorgan'. (GuyBarry)
1015: Texas 1015 Super Sweet onions are named for their optimum planting date, October 15. They were developed by Texas A&M University. (Strawberry)
1016: 1016 Fifth Avenue is a prestigious apartment building in Manhattan. (GuyBarry)
1017: 1017 Brick Records are a record label founded by Gucci Mane after his departure from Mizay Entertainment and the closing of So Icey Entertainment. (Strawberry)
1018: The Battle of Dyrrhachium in February 1018 was the final battle of the centuries-long struggle between the First Bulgarian Empire and Byzantium, in which the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Vladislav was killed. (GuyBarry)
1019: 1019 Strackea is an inner main belt asteroid. It is a member of the Hungarian family, discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth on March 3, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 QN. It was named after Gustav Stracke, a German astronomer, despite his wish that he not be honoured in this fashion. (Strawberry)
1020: The Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone was first unveiled on 11 July 2013. (GuyBarry)
1021: German submarine U-1021 was a Type VIIC/41 U-boat of the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during the Second World War. (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
1023: 1023 is a 2007 album by the Futurepop band Rotersand. (Strawberry)
1024: 1024 equals 10000000000 in binary, and was traditionally adopted by computer professionals as the number of bytes in a kilobyte. In the current IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) standard, though, a kilobyte is 1000 bytes and 1024 bytes is referred to as a "kibibyte". (GuyBarry)
1025: The Imagerunner 1025 is a multi function Black and white copy machine. (Awitt)
1026: Lee Harvey Oswald rented a room at 1026, North Beckley Ave, Dallas, from Gladys and Arthur Johnson for $8 per week. He began living there on October 14, 1963. (Strawberry)
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)
1028: 1028 is the possible year of birth for William the Conqueror. ('yorz)
1029: UNESCO World Heritage Site Ref. No 1029, added in 2001, is the Dorset and East Devon Coast. The area's important fossil sites and classic coastal geomorphologic features have contributed to the study of earth sciences for over 300 years. (bemahan)
1030: British United Airways Flight 1030X crashed on 14 April 1965 in Jersey in the Channel Islands. (Strawberry)
1031: 1031 Skateboards is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (GuyBarry)
1032: 1032 Pafuri is an asteroid, discovered by Harry Edwin Wood on May 30, 1924, with the provisional designation 1924 SA. It was named after the Pafuri River. (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)
1034: The Walmart CEO gets paid 1034 times more than the median Walmart worker, according to a March 2013 analysis by PayScale, a salary information website. (bemahan)
1035: Northsound 2 formerly broadcast to the Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire area on 1035 kHz medium wave until April 2018. (GuyBarry)
1036: 1036 Ganymed is the largest near-Earth asteroid, at about 32-34 km in diameter. It was discovered by Walter Baade on October 23, 1924. (Awitt)
1037: There are 1037 steps in 30 St Mary Axe in London, more usually known as the Gherkin. In 2014 Ciaran Bird, UK managing director of property agent CBRE, planned to run up them all for Sport Relief. (GuyBarry)
1038: Spin 1038 is a Dublin based radio station, with the frequency of 103.8. (Awitt)
1039: 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours was an album released by Green Day on 1/7/1991. (Big Martin)
1040: Café 1040 was established in May 2000 as a non-profit organization committed to preparing North American college students and twenty-somethings for evangelism in the parts of the world that are least evangelized. (GuyBarry)
1041: BWV1041 is a Violin Concerto in A Minor composed by J S Bach around 1730 or possibly earlier. (Big Martin)
1042: Edward the Confessor came to the throne of England in AD 1042. (GuyBarry)
1043: El Cid is believed to have been born in AD 1043. (Big Martin)
1044: 1044 Teutonia is an asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth on May 10, 1924 and assigned the provisional designation 1924 RO. It was named after the Teutonic people. (Strawberry)
1045: 1045 is a medium tensile low hardened carbon steel. (Awitt)
1046: Ben Wyvis, 1046 m (3432 ft) is a mountain located in Easter Ross, Ross and Cromerty, Highland, in eastern Scotland. (Strawberry)
1047: The Hawker P.1047 was a varient of the Hawker P1046 with a rocket booster motor, the P1046 itself being a proposed swept-wing replacement for the successful P1040 Sea Hawk carrier-borne jet fighter. Only 2 P1047s were built, and whilst the Royal Navy didn't adopt them they provided valuable R&D information towards the forthcoming Hawker Hunter (probably the most successful British military jet ever built). (PDR)
1048: 1048 is the BWV catalogue number for J S BAch's Brandenburg concerto no. 3. (Awitt)
1049: NGC 1049 is a globular cluster located in the constellation of Fornax, in the nearby Local Group galaxy of Fornax Dwarf. At a distance of 630,000 light years, it is visible in moderate sized telescopes. (Awitt)
1050: The Triumph Tiger 1050 is a continuation of the Triumph Tiger motorcycle model line from the Triumph Tiger 955i produced in Hinckley, England by Triumph Motorcycles. (Strawberry)
1051: Project P.1051 was the contract to design Messerschmidt prototype Bf163, which was the Messerschmidt proposal for the RLM requirement for an army-co-operation/cummunications STOL aircraft. Other designs evaluated were the rather more radical Siebel Si 201 and the subtley clever Fiesler Fi156 Storch, with the latter being selected for volume production. (PDR)
1052: The Tugendhat Villa in Brno is Unesco World Heritage site number 1052. (Big Martin)
1053: 1053 Vigdis is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf on November 16, 1925. Its provisional designation was 1925 WA. It is not known what the name refers to. (Strawberry)
1054: In 1054 the people of Earth witnessed a supernova whose remains we now know as the Crab Nebula. (AlmondFacialBar)
1055: Barbara Stanwyck (1907- 1990) lived at 1055, Lorna Vista Drive, Los Angeles, towards the end of her life. (Strawberry)
1056: American Ale uses wheat strain 1056. (Awitt)
1057: Identity 1057 is a 7 minute animated 2007 film about a robot. It was written and directed by Ilja Herlein. (Strawberry)
1058: 1058 people have recently been selected from 200,000 applicants for a one-way colonisation of Mars. (Big Martin)
1059: German submarine 1059 was a Type VIIF submarine of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during the Second World War. (Strawberry)
1060: Hotel 1060 is in Vienna. (Awitt)
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)
1062: 1062 is the United Nations number for Methyl bromide. (Strawberry)
1063: German Submarine U-1063 was used during World War II. (Awitt)
1064: 1064 Aethusa is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1926 PA. It was later named after a genus of plants Aethusa. (Strawberry)
1065: Westminster Abbey was consecrated on December 28 1065 AD. (Big Martin)
1066: 1066 And All That: A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates, is a tongue-in-cheek reworking of the history of England. Written by W.C. Seller and R.J. Yeatman and illustrated by John Reynolds, it first appeared serially in Punch magazine and was published in book form by Methuen & Co. Ltd. in 1930. (Strawberry)
1067: 1067 cars were torched across France on New Year's Eve 2013/14. (Awitt)
1068: 1068 Nofretete is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1926 RK. It is now named after Nefertiti. (Strawberry)
1069: The 1069 AD rebellion in England led to William the Conqueror's infamous "harrying of the North". (Big Martin)
1070: The Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighbo(u)rhoods Act (introduced as Arizona Senate Bill 1070 and thus often referred to simply as Arizona SB 1070) is a legislative Act in the U.S. state of Arizona that at the time of passage was the broadest and strictest anti-illegal immigration measure in recent U.S. history. It has received national and international attention and has spurred considerable controversy. (Strawberry)
1071: The Battle of Cassel was fought on 22 February 1071 between Robert I of Flanders (or Robert the Frisian) and his nephew, Arnulf III. (Awitt)
1072: Stob Coire Sgreamhach, 1072 m (3517 ft), is a mountain in Scotland. (Strawberry)
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)
1074: The UN Security Council Resolution 1074 was adopted on October 1, 1996. (Awitt)
1075: 1075 is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1926 SC. (Strawberry)
1076: The 1076 Class were 266 double framed 0-6-0 tank locomotives built by the Great Western Railway between 1870 and 1881; the last one was withdrawn in 1946. (bemahan)
1077: The Kershaw 1077 is a type of hunting knife. (Awitt)
1078: The 1078 Gallery is a gallery in Chico, California. (Strawberry)
1079: Title 10 USC 1079 is a retrospectively controversial bit of US federal law which provides free healthcare for the dependants of uniformed service personnel who are on active duty. Initially seen as a "good" law which put parts of the unwritten military covenant on a statutory basis, it attracted criticism when the American right realised that the care it provides is modelled closely on the British "National Health Service" concept. (PDR)
1080: 1080 Avalanche is a snowboarding game for the Nintendo GameCube. (Strawberry)
1081: The Hawker P1081 was a modification of the second prototype P1052 as an entry to provide a replacement fighter for the RAAF. In the end the Australians went for a modification of the US Sabre aircraft and P1081 was used for trials - reaching almost Mach 1 when modified. It was lost in an accident on 3/4/1951. (Big Martin)
1082: The A1082 is an English A road entirely in the county of Norfolk. (Strawberry)
1083: Anna Comnena, the Byzantine historian, was born on December 1 1083. (Big Martin)
1084: In 1084, Henry IV was made Holy Roman Emperor. (Efros)
1085: 1085 Amaryllis is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1927QH. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth on the 31st of August, 1927. (Strawberry)
1086: In 1086 the Domesday Book was fully compiled. (Ian Dunn)
1087: On the 9th of September, 1087, William II became King of England. (Strawberry)
1088: ERT 1088A is an Emergency Roadside Telephone box (SOS phone) on the M621 in West Yorkshire near Leeds. (tetsabb)
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.
1090: 1090 is the exclusive helpline number for Indian women to report crank callers. (Awitt)
1091: Britain's first recorded tornado struck London on 17th October 1091, damaging London Bridge and St. Mary-le-Bow church. (Ian Dunn)
1092: The Messerschmitt P.1092 was an experimental aircraft designed by Messerschmitt for the Luftwaffe. ('yorz)
1093: Renault marketed variants of the Dauphine, including a sport model, the Gordini, a luxury version, the Ondine, the 1093 factory racing model, and the Caravelle/Floride, a Dauphine-based two-door convertible. (Efros)
1094: In May 1094 El Cid completed his conquest of Valencia, Spain, and begins his rule of Valencia. ('yorz)
1095: In Canonical Law, Can. 1095 states that the following are incapable of contracting marriage: (1) those who lack the sufficient use of reason; (2) those who suffer from a grave defect of discretion of judgment concerning the essential matrimonial rights and duties mutually to be handed over and accepted; (3) those who are not able to assume the essential obligations of marriage for causes of a psychic nature. (Efros)
1096: In May, 1096, a band of crusaders led by Emico, a German noble, forced its way into the city of Mainz, and then to the palace, where infidel Jews were killed. (Awitt)
1097: Petar Svačić, the last native king of Croatia, was killed in the Battle of Gvozd Mountain in 1097. (Ian Dunn)
1098: The Ducati 1098 sport motorcycle was manufactured from 2007 to 2009. (Big Martin)
1099: According to Clan Donald family tradition, Somerled, founder of the clan, was born in 1099 CE. (tetsabb)
1100: 1100 Bel Air Place is a 1984 album of love songs by Julio Iglesias and released by Columbia Records. It was the first of Iglesias' albums to be released in English and it is generally considered his breakthrough album in English speaking markets. The album's title is the address of Iglesias' former home in Los Angeles, California, which was owned by music producer Quincy Jones until September 2005. (Strawberry)
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