Fatto generale: 169 is the number of miles that Thomas Sopwith, an English aviation pioneer flew in 3 hours, 40 minutes on December 18, 1910.
Fatto matematico: 169 is the 7^{th} Pell number.
Trivia: 169 is the first number of an automatic IPv4 address assigned by TCP/IP when no external networking device is contactable.
Data storica: June 17th is the day in 1961 that the New Democratic Party of Canada is founded by the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the Canadian Labour Congress.