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Because Every Day Counts
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| 635000 days since | St. Sebastian died. (January 20th, 287)   |
| 621000 days since | The First Council of Nicaea - the first Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church is held. (May 20th, 325) |
| 460000 days since | Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop of Metz died. (March 6th, 766) |
| 216000 days since | Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1443) was born. (March 19th, 1434) |
| 212000 days since | Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (d. 1510) was born. (March 1st, 1445) |
| 154000 days since | Thomas Cartwright, English Puritan clergyman died. (December 27th, 1603) |
| 153000 days since | Li Zicheng, emperor of China (d. 1645) was born. (September 22th, 1606) |
| 135000 days since | Mathieu Molé, French statesman (b. 1584) died. (January 3rd, 1656) |
| 128000 days since | John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England. (March 4th, 1675) |
| 126000 days since | Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618) died. (August 24th, 1680) |
| 110000 days since | Henry Sacheverell, English churchman and politician (b. 1674) died. (June 15th, 1724) |
| 88000 days since | Ann Lee, American religious leader (b. 1736) died. (September 8th, 1784) |
| 86000 days since | The first United States census is authorized. (March 1st, 1790) |
| 77777 days since | War of 1812: The Siege of Fort Wayne begins when Chief Winamac's forces attack two soldiers returning from the fort's outhouses. (September 5th, 1812) |
| 76000 days since | Jane Austen, English novelist (b. 1775) died. (July 18th, 1817) |
| 74000 days since | Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (d. 1913) was born. (January 8th, 1823) |
| 67000 days since | Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco receives its première performance in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers. (March 9th, 1842) |
| 66666 days since | The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City). (February 6th, 1843) |
| 60000 days since | American Civil War: Richmond, Virginia is named the capital of the Confederate States of America. (May 8th, 1861) |
| 57000 days since | The Japanese daimyo begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869). (July 25th, 1869) |
| 55000 days since | Tom Burke, American runner (d. 1929) was born. (January 15th, 1875) |
| 49000 days since | John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (d. 1976) was born. (June 20th, 1891) |
| 49000 days since | Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, Italian soprano (d. 1951) was born. (June 20th, 1891) |
| 47000 days since | Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833) died. (December 10th, 1896) |
| 46000 days since | Billy Rose, American composer (d. 1966) was born. (September 6th, 1899) |
| 44000 days since | Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968) was born. (February 27th, 1905) |
| 42000 days since | Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (d. 1961) was born. (August 20th, 1910) |
| 41000 days since | Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849) died. (May 16th, 1913) |
| 39000 days since | The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed in Poland. (November 6th, 1918) |
| 38000 days since | Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor (b. 1873) died. (August 2nd, 1921) |
| 37000 days since | Donatas Banionis, Lithuanian actor was born. (April 28th, 1924) |
| 37000 days since | Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia was born. (April 28th, 1924) |
| 36000 days since | Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994) was born. (January 23th, 1927) |
| 36000 days since | Jack Quinlan, Chicago Cubs Broadcaster (d. 1965) was born. (January 23th, 1927) |
| 34000 days since | Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player was born. (July 15th, 1932) |
| 34000 days since | Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African politician and writer (b. 1873) died. (July 15th, 1932) |
| 33333 days since | Leon Wagner, baseball player (d. 2004) was born. (May 13th, 1934) |
| 33000 days since | Richard Berry, American singer and composer (d. 1997) was born. (April 11th, 1935) |
| 33000 days since | Richard Kuklinski, American mafia hitman (d. 2006) was born. (April 11th, 1935) |
| 32000 days since | King Juan Carlos I of Spain was born. (January 5th, 1938) |
| 32000 days since | Jim Otto, American football player was born. (January 5th, 1938) |
| 32000 days since | Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer was born. (January 5th, 1938) |
| 31000 days since | The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic. (October 1st, 1940) |
| 30000 days since | Donald Johanson, American paleoanthropologist was born. (June 28th, 1943) |
| 30000 days since | Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate was born. (June 28th, 1943) |
| 29000 days since | Klaus Dinger, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk) (d. 2008) was born. (March 24th, 1946) |
| 29000 days since | Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892) died. (March 24th, 1946) |
| 28000 days since | Bill Nelson, English musician (Be Bop Deluxe) was born. (December 18th, 1948) |
| 28000 days since | Laurent Voulzy, French singer and composer was born. (December 18th, 1948) |
| 28000 days since | Edmund Kemper, American serial killer was born. (December 18th, 1948) |
| 27000 days since | Fritz Busch, German conductor (b. 1890) died. (September 14th, 1951) |
| 25000 days since | United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland become the independent Republic of Ghana. (March 6th, 1957) |
| 25000 days since | Dick Rambone, American porn Star was born. (March 6th, 1957) |
| 24000 days since | Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent. (December 1st, 1959) |
| 24000 days since | Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician was born. (December 1st, 1959) |
| 24000 days since | Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league footballer was born. (December 1st, 1959) |
| 23000 days since | The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by America's NASA. (August 27th, 1962) |
| 23000 days since | Vic Mignogna, American voice actor was born. (August 27th, 1962) |
| 23000 days since | Adam Oates, Canadian ice hockey player was born. (August 27th, 1962) |
| 22222 days since | Niè Haishèng, Chinese astronaut was born. (October 13th, 1964) |
| 22222 days since | Christopher Judge, American actor was born. (October 13th, 1964) |
| 22222 days since | Marco Travaglio, Italian journlaist was born. (October 13th, 1964) |
| 22000 days since | Tom Tykwer, German film director was born. (May 23th, 1965) |
| 22000 days since | Manuel Sanchís Hontiyuelo, Real Madrid footballer was born. (May 23th, 1965) |
| 22000 days since | Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897) died. (May 23th, 1965) |
| 21000 days since | In Springfield, Massachusetts the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens. (February 17th, 1968) |
| 21000 days since | Bryan Cox, National Football League player was born. (February 17th, 1968) |
| 20000 days since | Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. This is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster. (November 13th, 1970) |
| 19000 days since | Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor was born. (August 9th, 1973) |
| 19000 days since | Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer was born. (August 9th, 1973) |
| 18000 days since | Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer was born. (May 5th, 1976) |
| 18000 days since | Jeremy Michael Ward, American Musician (d. 2003) was born. (May 5th, 1976) |
| 18000 days since | Anastasios Pantos, Greek footballer was born. (May 5th, 1976) |
| 18000 days since | Dieter Brummer, Australian TV Actor was born. (May 5th, 1976) |
| 17000 days since | Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo. (January 30th, 1979) |
| 16000 days since | Guy Sebastian, Australian singer was born. (October 26th, 1981) |
| 16000 days since | Sam Brown, American comedian was born. (October 26th, 1981) |
| 15000 days since | Stewart Downing, English footballer was born. (July 22th, 1984) |
| 14000 days since | Brett Deledio, Australian Rules Football was born. (April 18th, 1987) |
| 14000 days since | Danny Guthrie, English footballer was born. (April 18th, 1987) |
| 14000 days since | Sandra Lyng Haugen, Norwegian singer was born. (April 18th, 1987) |
| 13000 days since | Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player was born. (January 12th, 1990) |
| 13000 days since | Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-born educator et writer (b. 1919) died. (January 12th, 1990) |
| 12000 days since | Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel laureate (b. 1913) died. (October 8th, 1992) |
| 11111 days since | Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865. (March 16th, 1995) |
| 10000 days since | Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. (March 31th, 1998) |
| 10000 days since | Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920) died. (March 31th, 1998) |
| 10000 days since | Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924) died. (March 31th, 1998) |
| 9000 days since | Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939) died. (December 25th, 2000) |
| 9000 days since | Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher (b. 1908) died. (December 25th, 2000) |
| 8000 days since | Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes. (September 21th, 2003) |
| 7000 days since | Cláudio Besserman Vianna, aka "Bussunda", Brazilian comedian (b. 1962) died. (June 17th, 2006) |
| 7000 days since | Arthur Franz, American actor (b. 1920) died. (June 17th, 2006) |
| 6000 days since | Andrew Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1975) died. (March 13th, 2009) |
| 6000 days since | Betsy Blair, American actress of film and stage, (b. 1923) died. (March 13th, 2009) |