Count In Days
Because Every Day Counts
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| 517000 days since | Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (October 5th, 610)   |
| 278000 days since | Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217) died. (February 8th, 1265) |
| 254000 days since | Louis II of Flanders (d. 1384) was born. (October 25th, 1330) |
| 180000 days since | Anne Boleyn is crowned Queen of England. (June 1st, 1533) |
| 177000 days since | A Portuguese ship drifts ashore in the ancient Japanese province of Higo (modern day Kumamoto Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese date: July 27, 1541) (August 18th, 1541) |
| 153000 days since | Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony. (May 14th, 1607) |
| 147000 days since | Francis Turretin, Swiss theologian (d. 1687) was born. (October 17th, 1623) |
| 146000 days since | Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563) died. (July 13th, 1626) |
| 137000 days since | John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (d. 1716) was born. (March 4th, 1651) |
| 128000 days since | Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749) was born. (October 24th, 1675) |
| 114000 days since | Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795) was born. (February 22th, 1714) |
| 111000 days since | Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d. 1789) was born. (May 11th, 1722) |
| 110000 days since | Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804) was born. (February 4th, 1725) |
| 109000 days since | Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797) was born. (November 1st, 1727) |
| 93000 days since | Henry Maudslay, English inventor (d. 1831) was born. (August 22th, 1771) |
| 86000 days since | Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer (d. 1869) was born. (October 21th, 1790) |
| 85000 days since | Charlotte Corday, French aristocrat and murderer (b. 1768) died. (July 17th, 1793) |
| 84000 days since | George N. Briggs, 19th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1861) was born. (April 12th, 1796) |
| 78000 days since | Russians set fire to Moscow shortly after midnight - the city burns down completely days later. (September 16th, 1812) |
| 77777 days since | War of 1812: United States troops capture the capital of Ontario, York (present day Toronto, Canada). (April 27th, 1813) |
| 77777 days since | Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (b. 1779) died. (April 27th, 1813) |
| 69000 days since | Alexander Balashov, Russian general and statesman (b. 1770) died. (May 8th, 1837) |
| 59000 days since | Draga Mašin, Queen of Serbia (d. 1903) was born. (September 23th, 1864) |
| 52000 days since | José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (d. 1949) was born. (November 23th, 1883) |
| 49000 days since | Peggy Wood, American actress (d. 1978) was born. (February 9th, 1892) |
| 49000 days since | Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (d. 1936) was born. (February 9th, 1892) |
| 46000 days since | Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo (disappeared in 1945) was born. (April 28th, 1900) |
| 46000 days since | Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d. 1992) was born. (April 28th, 1900) |
| 45000 days since | Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948) was born. (January 23th, 1903) |
| 42000 days since | Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish runner (d. 1980) was born. (April 11th, 1911) |
| 41000 days since | The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor. (January 5th, 1914) |
| 41000 days since | Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (d. 1955) was born. (January 5th, 1914) |
| 41000 days since | George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959) was born. (January 5th, 1914) |
| 39000 days since | The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, formally ending World War I between Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States and allies on the one side and Germany and Austria Hungary on the other side. (June 28th, 1919) |
| 38000 days since | Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005) was born. (March 24th, 1922) |
| 36000 days since | Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (d. 1997) was born. (September 14th, 1927) |
| 36000 days since | Isadora Duncan, American dancer (b. 1877) died. (September 14th, 1927) |
| 35000 days since | Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851) died. (June 10th, 1930) |
| 34000 days since | Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004) was born. (March 6th, 1933) |
| 34000 days since | Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873) died. (March 6th, 1933) |
| 33333 days since | Bruno Hauptmann goes on trial for the murder of Charles Lindbergh, Jr., infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. (January 2nd, 1935) |
| 33000 days since | Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian was born. (December 1st, 1935) |
| 30000 days since | World War II: Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22. (February 17th, 1944) |
| 30000 days since | World War II: Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk (Chuuk), Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion. (February 17th, 1944) |
| 30000 days since | Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer was born. (February 17th, 1944) |
| 28000 days since | Jonathan Kellerman, American writer was born. (August 9th, 1949) |
| 27000 days since | Campbell McComas, Australian impersonator and broadcaster (d. 2005) was born. (May 5th, 1952) |
| 26000 days since | Curtis Strange, American golfer was born. (January 30th, 1955) |
| 26000 days since | John Baldacci, American politician, governor of Maine was born. (January 30th, 1955) |
| 26000 days since | Judith Tarr, American author was born. (January 30th, 1955) |
| 25000 days since | Bob Golic, American football player was born. (October 26th, 1957) |
| 25000 days since | Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1896) died. (October 26th, 1957) |
| 25000 days since | Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (b. 1883) died. (October 26th, 1957) |
| 24000 days since | Jon Oliva, American musician (Savatage) was born. (July 22th, 1960) |
| 23000 days since | Eric McCormack, Canadian actor was born. (April 18th, 1963) |
| 23000 days since | Conan O'Brien, American comedian was born. (April 18th, 1963) |
| 23000 days since | Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880) died. (April 18th, 1963) |
| 22222 days since | Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer was born. (June 4th, 1965) |
| 22222 days since | Andrea Jaeger, American tennis player was born. (June 4th, 1965) |
| 22000 days since | Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. (January 12th, 1966) |
| 22000 days since | Olivier Martinez, French actor was born. (January 12th, 1966) |
| 21000 days since | Vietnam War: Operation Sealords - United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta. (October 8th, 1968) |
| 21000 days since | Ali Benarbia, former Algerian footballer was born. (October 8th, 1968) |
| 21000 days since | Zvonimir Boban, Croatian football player was born. (October 8th, 1968) |
| 21000 days since | Emily Procter, American actress was born. (October 8th, 1968) |
| 21000 days since | Karyn Parsons, American actress was born. (October 8th, 1968) |
| 21000 days since | Leeroy Thornhill, British musician (The Prodigy) was born. (October 8th, 1968) |
| 20000 days since | Right to vote: the Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon. (July 5th, 1971) |
| 20000 days since | Derek McInnes, Scottish footballer was born. (July 5th, 1971) |
| 19000 days since | Stefan Olsdal, Swedish bassist (Placebo) was born. (March 31th, 1974) |
| 19000 days since | Benjamin Eicher, Swiss film director was born. (March 31th, 1974) |
| 18000 days since | Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish keyboardist and songwriter was born. (December 25th, 1976) |
| 18000 days since | Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ & Producer was born. (December 25th, 1976) |
| 17000 days since | Two RAF Hawker Siddeley Harrier jump-jets from RAF Wittering collide over the UK. Both pilots ejected safely. One of the jets broke up in midair and fell harmlessly into a field but the other dropped onto the centre of Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, destroying two houses and a bungalow. Several people were injured in the accident and three people were killed. (September 21th, 1979) |
| 17000 days since | Richard Dunne, Irish footballer was born. (September 21th, 1979) |
| 17000 days since | Chris Gayle, Jamaican West Indies cricketer was born. (September 21th, 1979) |
| 17000 days since | Julian Gray, English footballer was born. (September 21th, 1979) |
| 17000 days since | Jaymee Ong, Chinese-Australian model was born. (September 21th, 1979) |
| 16000 days since | Marek Svatoš, Slovakian ice hockey player was born. (June 17th, 1982) |
| 16000 days since | Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (b. 1920) died. (June 17th, 1982) |
| 15000 days since | Emile Hirsch, American actor was born. (March 13th, 1985) |
| 15000 days since | Austin Scott, American football player was born. (March 13th, 1985) |
| 15000 days since | Alcides, Brazilian football player was born. (March 13th, 1985) |
| 14000 days since | The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed. (December 8th, 1987) |
| 14000 days since | The Queen Street Massacre: Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills 8 people at the offices of Australia Post in Melbourne, Australia before being killed himself. (December 8th, 1987) |
| 14000 days since | The Alianza Lima air disaster. (December 8th, 1987) |
| 12000 days since | Sun Ra, American musician (b. 1914) died. (May 30th, 1993) |
| 11111 days since | André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of Canada. He is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door. (November 5th, 1995) |
| 11000 days since | The last occurrence of February 24 as a leap day in the European Union and for the Roman Catholic Church. (February 24th, 1996) |
| 10000 days since | A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. (November 20th, 1998) |
| 10000 days since | The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched. (November 20th, 1998) |
| 10000 days since | Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946) died. (November 20th, 1998) |
| 7000 days since | Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926) died. (February 6th, 2007) |
| 7000 days since | Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932) died. (February 6th, 2007) |
| 7000 days since | Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930) died. (February 6th, 2007) |
| 7000 days since | Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913) died. (February 6th, 2007) |
| 7000 days since | Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939) died. (February 6th, 2007) |