Excerpts from The New Paper on 666 incidents + my own addition.
The good, the bad & the unlucky? Another terrorist attack on US soil could be triggered by the so-called 'devil's number' tomorrow, warned bohemian website Infowars.com, which keeps track of mystical number combinations.
It said the target could be a tower in Chicago, a city which has the zip code 60606.
In 1926, a two-lane highway from Colorado to New Mexico became US Route 666, named so because it was the sixth spur off US 66. It soon become known as the Devil's Highway.
In 2003, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson said a name change was necessary because of 'infamy brought by the inopportune naming of the road'. It eventually became US 491.
Folks in Vancleve, Kentucky were outraged when Kentucky Mountain Bible College was assigned the 666 telephone number prefix in 2003.
Ditto for businesses in Tijuana, Mexico, when 666 became their area code. Both lobbied and were awarded new numbers - 693 in Vancleve and 664 in Tijuana.
Tomorrow, rocker David Lee Roth releases his Strummin' With The Devil bluegrass tribute to Van Halen, and death metal bands As Blood Runs Black and Deicide will roll out their new CDs.
Metal band Slayer also kicks off its Unholy Alliance tour.
In addition, a mentalist known as the Amazing Kreskin says he will give a group of New Yorkers 'the most frightening experience of their lives' in a 666-related street stunt.
Heavy metal group Iron Maiden released its album The Number Of The Beast in 1982. That same year, while touring, producer Martin Birch was reportedly involved in a car accident. When the bill for repairs came to 666 ($1,966), Birch insisted on paying more.
After his presidency and until his death in 2004, Ronald Reagan resided in a Bel Air, California house at 666 St Cloud Road. Shortly after moving in, his wife Nancy had the number changed to 668.
In 2004, some movie-goers in Rome, Georgia, were outraged when they discovered 666 printed on their tickets for a showing of Mel Gibson's The Passion Of The Christ. Management explained that it was a prefix for a series of numbers that a computer randomly assigned.
In mathematics, 666 has special significance, being the sum of the squares of the first 7 prime numbers, a palindromic number, and a 'prime reciprocal magic square'.
In Roman numerals, 666 is DCLXVI, the only number to use one each of the numeric symbols in order of their respective values.
My Addition: In 2006. a small asian country's election saw the ruling party winning 66.6% of the votes. The citizens were unfazed and not bothered 
