Forty-four is a tribonacci number, a happy number (A happy number is defined by the following process. Starting with any positive integer, replace the number by the sum of the squares of its digits, and repeat the process until the number equals 1 (where it will stay), or it loops endlessly in a cycle which does not include 1. Those numbers for which this process ends in 1 are happy numbers, while those that do not end in 1 are unhappy numbers (or sad numbers[1]).) and an octahedral number.The retired numbers for former baseball players Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey and Reggie Jackson.The code for international direct dial phone calls to the United Kingdom.Vicks Formula 44 is a cough suppressant.
Events
- 1503 – Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
- 1609 – Henry Hudson reached the river that would later be named after him – the Hudson River.
- 1743 – Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms (1743).
- 1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham: British defeat French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War, known in the United States as the French and Indian War.
- 1788 – The United States' Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the country's first presidential election, and New York City becomes the temporary capital of the U.S..
- 1814 – Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner
- 1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
- 1923 – Military coup in Spain – Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship.
- 1933 – Elizabeth McCombs is the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.
- 1940 – World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
- 1953 – Nikita Khrushchev appointed secretary-general of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
- 1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy.
- 1994 – Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.
- 2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
- 2007 – The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted.
[edit]Births
- 1851 – Walter Reed, American physician and biologist (d. 1902)
- 1903 – Claudette Colbert, American actress (d. 1996)
- 1925 – Mel Tormé, American singer (d. 1999)
- 1936 – Joe E. Tata, American actor
- 1944 – Jacqueline Bisset, British actress
- 1944 – Peter Cetera, American musician (Chicago)
- 1948 – Nell Carter, American actress (d. 2003)
- 1965 – Zak Starkey, British musician
- 1965 – Annie Duke, American poker player
- 1965 – Jeffrey Ross, American Comedian
- 1966 – Maria Furtwängler, German physician
- 1970 – Jason Bourne, fictional character
- 1971 – Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player
- 1980 – Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
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