9 June

On the 160th day of the year, 10 facts about the number 160:

1. 160 is the sum of the first 11 primes, and the sum of the cubes of the first three primes.

2. In London, the 160 Bus runs from Thomas Lane to Sidcup Station.

3. In Roman numerals, it's written CLX and in Binary as 10100000.

4. It's the number of characters permitted in a standard short message service (SMS).

5. Between 1966 and 1991, it was the telephone number for Dial-a-Disc in the UK. You could dial that number to listen to chart hits over the phone.

6. United Nations Security Council Resolution 160, adopted on October 7, 1960 recommended that Nigeria be admitted to the UN.

7. The A160 is a short road in North Lincolnshire, England. It connects the A180 to Immingham docks.

8. Year 160 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Atilius and Vibius. Things which happened this year included The Antonine Wall being retaken by Roman legions; the manufacturing of soap containing grease, lime and ashes began in Rome; Appian wrote the Roman History, the history of each nation conquered up until the Romans conquered it; and the first Buddhist monks arrived in China.

9. 160 Una is a fairly large Main belt Asteroid discovered by C. H. F. Peters on February 20, 1876, in Clinton, New York. It is named after a character in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene.

10. In numerology, a person affected by the number 160 is a leader who will prefer to pursue their goals without hindrance from other people. They will be drawn to subjects with both spiritual and scientific aspects. They will be people who like to explore the old and update it for now. This might include exploring old houses and restoring them for a modern family to live in. They are independent and self reliant but family is important to them also. For them, family doesn't stop at blood relatives, but they tend to see whoever is around them as part of an extended family.

Character birthday

Trapeze, member of the Ultra League. A former circus performer who left the circus after being wrongly accused of tampering with the trapeze so that his wife suffered a fatal accident. There followed a period of depression and heavy drinking, during which he was treated and counselled by Superwil and on recovery, recruited to the Ultra League. Trapeze has no variant powers but is a highly skilled acrobat. His initial motivation for joining the League was that he thought it would help him track down those actually responsible for his wife’s death and get revenge.