Count In Days
Because Every Day Counts
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Today Happens to be Exactly...
| 538000 days since | Totila, king of the Ostrogoths died. (July 1st, 552)   |
| 527000 days since | Arnulf of Metz, French bishop and saint (d. 640) was born. (August 13th, 582) |
| 446000 days since | Alcuin, English monk (b. c.735) died. (May 19th, 804) |
| 226000 days since | Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336) died. (September 16th, 1406) |
| 221000 days since | Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ. (May 25th, 1420) |
| 209000 days since | Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29. (April 2nd, 1453) |
| 153000 days since | The first documented performance of Macbeth performed at the Great Hall at Hampton Court. (August 7th, 1606) |
| 129000 days since | Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598) died. (April 22th, 1672) |
| 111000 days since | Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Marquess of Stafford, English politician (d. 1803) was born. (August 4th, 1721) |
| 106000 days since | Isaac Low, delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791) was born. (April 13th, 1735) |
| 98000 days since | Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701) died. (March 8th, 1757) |
| 83000 days since | August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet (d. 1874) was born. (April 2nd, 1798) |
| 77000 days since | George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian politician (d. 1873) was born. (September 6th, 1814) |
| 59000 days since | Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria (d. 1914) was born. (December 18th, 1863) |
| 56000 days since | George Westinghouse patents the air brake. (March 5th, 1872) |
| 55000 days since | Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate (d. 1965) was born. (November 30th, 1874) |
| 55000 days since | Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942) was born. (November 30th, 1874) |
| 52000 days since | Elizabeth Craig, British writer (d. 1980) was born. (February 16th, 1883) |
| 49000 days since | The Music Hall in New York City (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor. (May 5th, 1891) |
| 45000 days since | Quetzaltenango, second largest city of Guatemala, destroyed by Earthquake. (April 18th, 1902) |
| 45000 days since | Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981) was born. (April 18th, 1902) |
| 45000 days since | Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Hasidic Judaism leader (d. 1994) was born. (April 18th, 1902) |
| 44000 days since | James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (d. 1997) was born. (January 12th, 1905) |
| 44000 days since | Tex Ritter, American country singer and actor (d. 1974) was born. (January 12th, 1905) |
| 43000 days since | Quintin Hogg, British politician (d. 2001) was born. (October 9th, 1907) |
| 43000 days since | Jacques Tati, French filmmaker (d. 1982) was born. (October 9th, 1907) |
| 42000 days since | Georges Vedel, French public law (d. 2002) was born. (July 5th, 1910) |
| 41000 days since | John Pierpont Morgan, American financier (b. 1837) died. (March 31th, 1913) |
| 39000 days since | John Gofman, American Manhattan Project scientist and advocate (d. 2007) was born. (September 21th, 1918) |
| 35000 days since | Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (d. 2007) was born. (September 3rd, 1929) |
| 34000 days since | Pauline Oliveros, American composer and accordionist was born. (May 30th, 1932) |
| 32000 days since | René Kollo, German tenor was born. (November 20th, 1937) |
| 32000 days since | Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005) was born. (November 20th, 1937) |
| 32000 days since | Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish cross-country skier was born. (November 20th, 1937) |
| 32000 days since | Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright was born. (November 20th, 1937) |
| 31000 days since | World War II: The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway. (August 16th, 1940) |
| 31000 days since | Bruce Beresford, Australian film director was born. (August 16th, 1940) |
| 30000 days since | World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces. (May 13th, 1943) |
| 30000 days since | Kurt Trampedach, Danish artist was born. (May 13th, 1943) |
| 30000 days since | Mary Wells, American singer (d. 1992) was born. (May 13th, 1943) |
| 29000 days since | Jim Turner, American politician was born. (February 6th, 1946) |
| 29000 days since | Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter was born. (February 6th, 1946) |
| 27000 days since | Alan Kourie, former South African cricketer was born. (July 30th, 1951) |
| 25000 days since | Kenneth McClintock, Puerto Rican politician was born. (January 19th, 1957) |
| 25000 days since | Ottis Anderson, former American football player was born. (January 19th, 1957) |
| 25000 days since | József Dudás, Romanian/Hungarian resistance fighter (b. 1912) died. (January 19th, 1957) |
| 24000 days since | Gary Kemp, British musician and actor was born. (October 16th, 1959) |
| 24000 days since | Erkki-Sven Tüür, Estonian composer was born. (October 16th, 1959) |
| 24000 days since | Brian Harper, baseball player was born. (October 16th, 1959) |
| 24000 days since | George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel laureate (b. 1880) died. (October 16th, 1959) |
| 23000 days since | The Rolling Stones perform their first ever concert, at the Marquee Club in London. (July 12th, 1962) |
| 23000 days since | Julio César Chávez, Mexican boxer was born. (July 12th, 1962) |
| 23000 days since | Dan Murphy, American guitarist (Soul Asylum) was born. (July 12th, 1962) |
| 23000 days since | Dean Wilkins, English football manager was born. (July 12th, 1962) |
| 23000 days since | Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907) died. (July 12th, 1962) |
| 22222 days since | The Philadelphia race riot begins. (August 28th, 1964) |
| 22000 days since | Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian was born. (April 7th, 1965) |
| 22000 days since | Alison Lapper, British artist was born. (April 7th, 1965) |
| 21000 days since | Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor was born. (January 2nd, 1968) |
| 21000 days since | Anky van Grunsven, Dutch dressage champion was born. (January 2nd, 1968) |
| 21000 days since | Evan Parke, Jamaican actor was born. (January 2nd, 1968) |
| 21000 days since | Goichi Suda, Japanese video game developer was born. (January 2nd, 1968) |
| 20000 days since | Mike DeJean, American baseball player was born. (September 28th, 1970) |
| 20000 days since | Gualter Salles, Brazilian racing driver was born. (September 28th, 1970) |
| 20000 days since | John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896) died. (September 28th, 1970) |
| 20000 days since | Gamal Abdel Nasser, the second President of Egypt (b. 1918) died. (September 28th, 1970) |
| 19000 days since | Alexander Beyer, German actor was born. (June 24th, 1973) |
| 19000 days since | Ji Jin Hee, South Korean actor was born. (June 24th, 1973) |
| 18000 days since | Chester Bennington, American musician (Linkin Park) was born. (March 20th, 1976) |
| 17000 days since | President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and cut off all relations with Taiwan (December 15th, 1978) |
| 17000 days since | Mark Jansen, Dutch guitarist (Epica) was born. (December 15th, 1978) |
| 17000 days since | Jerome McDougle, American football player was born. (December 15th, 1978) |
| 17000 days since | Chill Wills, American actor (b. 1903) died. (December 15th, 1978) |
| 15000 days since | The Indian Army attacks the Golden Temple in Amritsar following an order from Indira Gandhi. Official casualties are 576 combatants killed and 335 wounded; independent observers estimate that thousands of unarmed Sikh civilians are also killed in the crossfire. A total death count adds up to almost 6,000. (June 6th, 1984) |
| 15000 days since | Noor Sabri, Iraqi footballer was born. (June 6th, 1984) |
| 15000 days since | Shannon Stewart, American model was born. (June 6th, 1984) |
| 15000 days since | A. Bertram Chandler, Australian author (b. 1912) died. (June 6th, 1984) |
| 14000 days since | Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1913) died. (March 3rd, 1987) |
| 11000 days since | In a second referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a slight majority the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada. (May 20th, 1995) |
| 9000 days since | Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915) died. (November 9th, 2000) |
| 7000 days since | Louis Rukeyser, American columnist (b. 1933) died. (May 2nd, 2006) |