3 the symbol of magic
4 the number of letters in Jimmy Carter's middle name
5 the number of books in Torah
7 the number of deadly sins and the symbol of magic
11 the number of spacetime dimensions in string theory
12 the number of sons of Norse god Odin
13 the symbol of bad luck
14 the number of pieces Osiris was torn into in Egyptian mythology
16 the atomic number of sulfur
33 the sacred number of the Illuminati
40 the number of days and nights of the Great Flood in Genesis
64 the year of the Great Fire of Rome
69 the symbol of sinful perversion
79 the year Vesuvius erupted and destroyed Pompeii
88 a neo-Nazi symbol and code number for "Heil Hitler"
148 the amount of passengers and crew killed in the 1990 Avianca Flight 52 crash
183 the amount of Texan defenders killed at the Battle of the Alamo
248 the amount of peacekeepers killed in the 1985 Arrow Air Flight 1285 crash
259 the amount of passengers and crew killed in the 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie
269 the amount of people killed in the 1983 shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007
298 the amount of people killed in the 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
343 the amount of firefighters killed during the September 11 attacks in New York City
431 the amount of people killed in the 1981 Skyway Bridge collapse in Tampa Bay
443 the year Attila the Hun attacked western Europe
450 the amount of prophets of Baal executed by Elijah at Mount Carmel
476 the year of the fall of the Roman empire
507 the amount of villagers killed in the 1968 My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War
512 the amount of people who died in the 1970 Dawson's Field hijackings and subsequent explosions
520 the amount of people killed in the 1985 Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crash, the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history
583 the amount of people killed in the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster, the deadliest plane crash of all time
600 the amount of lives lost in the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago
666 the Number of the Beast
764 the amount of people killed in the 1942 sinking of the Struma, a ship carrying Jewish refugees
801 the amount of people killed in the 1997 Garuda Indonesia Flight 152 crash
909 the amount of people who died in the 1978 Jonestown mass suicide/murder (revised from earlier estimates)
912 the amount of days the Siege of Leningrad lasted during World War II
1181 the year of first recorded UFO sightings in China and Japan
1347 the year of the arrival of the Black Death in Europe
1543 the year Copernicus attacked the geocentric model
1556 the year of the deadliest earthquake in history (Shensi province, China)
1666 the year of the Great London Fire
1714 the year Henry Mill patented the typewriter
1729 the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways
1778 the year Oliver Pollock created the dollar sign
1792 the year the guillotine debuted in France
1815 the year first commercial cheese factory was established
1859 the year Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species"
1865 the year Lincoln was shot
1887 the year Erwin Schrodinger, cat-killer, was born
1889 the year Adolf Hitler was born
1908 the year of the Tunguska event
1912 the year of Titanic's first and only voyage
1914 the year of the start of World War I
1918 the year of the Spanish Flu pandemic
1919 the year of the Boston Molasses Disaster
1929 the year of the Wall Street Crash and the start of the Great Depression
1934 the year Charles Manson was born
1939 the year the Second World War has begun
1942 the year Oppenheimer and Groves kicked off the Manhattan Project and the year Ted Kaczynski was born
1943 the year Nikola Tesla died
1945 the year of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
1952 the year the US patent system has been established in its current form
1953 the year Ron Hubbard incorporated the Church of Scientology
1954 the year Alan Turing died of cyanide poisoning and the year the first FORTRAN computer program was executed
1955 the year Steve Jobs was born
1957 the year Osama bin Laden was born
1958 the year Nabokov published his "Lolita"
1959 the year of "Plan 9 from Outer Space"
1960 the year first contraceptive pills hit the market
1962 the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 the year of the assassination of John F. Kennedy
1966 the year Anthon LaVey founded the Church of Satan
1967 the year Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia
1968 the year of Martin Luther King's assassination
1969 the year of Woodstock
1974 the year of Ted Bundy's first killings
1975 the year Microsoft was incorporated
1977 the year Elvis has left the building
1984 the year of the Bhopal disaster
1985 the year of Microsoft Windows 1.0
1986 the year of the Challenger disaster and the year of the Chernobyl disaster
1989 the year of the Exxon Valdez spill
1994 the year Jeffrey Dahmer died in prison
1995 the year O. J. Simpson was acquitted in the murder trial
2001 the year of the September 11 attacks
2011 the year of the Tōhoku earthquake and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
2012 the end of the Mayan calendar
2020 the year of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
2044 the total amount of people killed during the 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal
2208 the total amount of passengers and crew on board the RMS Titanic when it collided with an iceberg
2996 the number of people who died at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
2902 the height in feet of the "Dead Zone" on Mount Everest where oxygen is insufficient for human life
2977 the total number of victims killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks (excluding the 19 hijackers)
4947 the total number of people officially recorded as missing or dead in the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster
8372 the number of names of men and boys officially listed as victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide
15899 the confirmed death toll of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan
53537 the total number of deaths in Turkey officially confirmed by the Ministry of Interior for the 2023 earthquake
58220 the number of names of fallen and missing soldiers inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C.