On 61

It’s all the same: Sixty-one, Soixante et un, Sessanta uno, Einundsechzig, Kuusikymmentä yksi, Šedesát jedna, and Το εξήντα-ένα

In Entertainment

• 61*, a 2001 baseball movie directed by Billy Crystal
• Highway 61 is a 1991 film set on U.S. Route 61
• The number of points required to win a “standard” game of Cribbage
• 61A is the London address of Margot Wendice (Grace Kelly) and Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) in Dial M for Murder
• 61st Primetime Emmy Awards took place on September 20, 2009
• Now 61, a musical collection in the UK, was released on 25 July, 2005
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won the most awards at the 61st Golden Globes
• The 61st Tony Awards awarded to top awards to The Coast of Utopia, Journey’s End, Spring Awakening, and Company
• Channel 61 is a television station in Davenport (Iowa), Los Angeles, Cleveland, Harford (CT), New Orleans, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, New Zealand, Cikarang (Indonesia), and Venezuela

In Music

• Highway 61 Revisited is a Bob Dylan album
• The Highway 61 Blues Festival occurs annually in Leland, Mississippi
• 61/49 is an album by The Romantics
• Joseph Haydn composed Symphony No. 61 in D major

In Literature

• 61 Hours, written by Lee Childs, is part of the Jack Reacher series
• Sixty-One Nails is a book by Mike Shevdon

In Mathematics

• The 18th prime number, a cuban prime, a Pillai prime, the ninth Mersenne prime exponent, a Keith number a centered hexagonal number, a centered decagonal number, the sixth Euler zigzag number
• The only base-14 prime number with a 6-digit period
• Center Returning is Hexagram 61 of the Book of Changes
• Divisible by 1, 61, and 8! + 1

In Science

• On the Periodic Table, promethium has the atomic number 61, which means its neural atom has 61 protons and 61 electrons … A Jeopardy Extra – promethium do not have any stable isotopes
• mir-61 microRNA is a short RNA molecule functioning to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms
• Nickel-61 is the nickel atom’s only stable isotope

In Space

• Messier object M61 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo
• The New General Catalogue (NGC) object 61 is a double spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces
• Saros series 61 lasted 1262.1 years and contained 71 solar eclipses
• 61 Ursae Majoris is located about 31.1 light-years from Sol
• STS-61, involving the space shuttle Endeavor, was the first mission to service the Hubble Telescope (launched 2 December 1992)

In World History
Year 61 CDE

• Assyrian calendar year 4811, Buddhist calendar year 605, Korean calendar year 2394
• Pliny the Younger born

Year 61 BC

• Hebrew calendar 3700-3791, Thai solar calendar year 483, Holocene calendar year 9940
• Prince Ptolemy born, later to become Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII

In US History

• The 61st US Congress served from 1909-1911 with President William Howard Taft
• Federalist No. 61, written by Alexander Hamilton, is the last of 3 essays about the power of Congress has in electing its members

In Geography

• U.S. Route 61 is the highway that inspired so much attention on “Highway 61”
• 1 Liberty Place is Philadelphia’s tallest building at 61 stories
• US Route 61 covers 1,400 miles (2,300 km) connecting New Orleans, Louisiana and Wyoming, Minnesota while following the Mississippi River – which also has this popular yard sale
• List of highway 61 in Canada, United Kingdom, and the United States
• Antler No. 61 is a very small town in rural Saskatchewan
• 61 North Parallel crosses Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, United States, Canada, and Greenland
• 61st Parallel South does not cross any land
• 61 Meridian West Greenland, Canada, Martinique, Santa Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina, and the Falkland Islands
• 61 Meridian East crosses Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan

In Sports

• New York Yankees Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961, which brought an asterisk to the record book (hence the movie 61 *)
• Pitching greats Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver each had 61 career shutouts
• Hockey great Wayne Gretzky holds or shares 61 NHL records (40 for regular season, 15 for Stanley Cup playoff and 6 for All-Star Games)
• Los Angeles Lakers’ Elgin Baylor set a record for 61 points in a NBA finals game against the Boston Celtics (April 14, 1962)
• The Ottawa Rough Riders defeated Edmonton Eskimos for the 61st Grey Cup title (1973)
• Rotation, a variation of pool, is sometimes called 61
• Richie Evans’ NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour car number was 61
• Bill George (Chicago Bears) is the only #61 professional US sports jersey retired
• In 229 NASCA races, #61 never earned the pole position, never won a race, and finished in the top five only 5 times

In Business

• Sixty 1 is a tobacco brand
• Sixty-One is an IPA style beer from Dogfish Head Brewery
• Sixty61 sells custom sportsbike accessories
• The Sixty-One Mixer is a plug-and-play package
• The Sixtyone Restaurant is in London
• HP 61 is a printer ink cartridge

In Miscellaneous

• The number of the French department Orne
• The code for international direct dial phone calls to Australia
• The code for setting a priority call on a phone is *61
• Part 61 is a law created by the FAA regarding medical exams
• The number of Citadel cadets on the Summerall Guards
• The P-61, also called the Black Widow and first designated as the XP-61,is the first fighter aircraft to be a night fighter
• No. 61 (Rust and Blue) is a 1953 painting by the Russian-American Abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko
• Psalm 61
• Section 61 of the Internal Revenue Service code defines gross income
• SixtyOne is a WordPress theme

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