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Toll-free telephone numbers in the North American Numbering Plan have the area code prefix 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877, or 888. Additionally, area codes 822, 880 through 887, and 889 are reserved for toll-free use in the future. 811 is excluded because it is a special dialing code in the group NXX for various other purposes.
4 January – the Palace of Whitehall is destroyed by fire. [1] 11 January–21 April – Czar Peter I of Russia visits England as part of his Grand Embassy, making a particular study of shipbuilding. [2] March – Jeremy Collier's pamphlet A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage is published.
The Dzungar Khanate, also known as the Zunghar Khanate or Junggar Khanate, was an Inner Asian khanate of Oirat Mongol origin. At its greatest extent, it covered an area from southern Siberia in the north to present-day Kyrgyzstan in the south, and from the Great Wall of China in the east to present-day Kazakhstan in the west.
March 2: A Nanpū express train on the Tosa Kuroshio Railway Sukumo Line derails and crashes into Sukumo Station, killing the train driver.; March 16: The Shimane Prefecture assembly declares "Takeshima Day" to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Japan's claim to Liancourt Rocks (known as Takeshima in Japan, and Dokdo in Korea), starting a wave of protests in South Korea.
The 2006 United States Senate election in Nebraska was held on November 7, 2006. Incumbent Democrat Ben Nelson won re-election to a second term, easily defeating Republican Pete Ricketts.
11 is a prime number, and a super-prime. 11 forms a twin prime with 13, [6] and sexy pair with 5 and 17. 11 is also the first prime exponent that does not yield a Mersenne prime. 11 is also a Gaussian prime [7] and an Eisenstein prime. [8] 11 is part of a pair of Brown numbers. Only three such pairs of numbers are known.
[11] 1869 - Japanese imperial capital relocated from Kyoto to Tokyo. [11] 1871 Tokyo-Osaka-Kyoto postal service begins. [12] Kyoto Prefecture created. [13] 1872 - Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures held. [citation needed] 1875 - Protestant Doshisha English School established. [14] 1877 - Kyōto Station opens. 1879 - Kamigyō-ku and Shimogyō ...
March 11 - Order to expel barbarians issued by the Emperor. July 16 - Battle of Shimonoseki Straits; July 20-August 14 - First Shimonoseki Campaign; August 15–17 - Bombardment of Kagoshima; September 29 - Tenchūgumi Incident; December 29 - Second Japanese Embassy to Europe (1863)