Count In Days
Because Every Day Counts
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Today Happens to be Exactly...
| 544000 days since | Byzantine General Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Ostrogothic garrison of Syracuse, and ending his consulship for the year. (December 31th, 535)   |
| 515000 days since | Pope Boniface IV died. (May 25th, 615) |
| 363000 days since | King Robert II of France (b. 972) died. (July 20th, 1031) |
| 295000 days since | The Estonian tribal leader Lembitu of Lehola was killed in a battle against Teutonic Knights. (September 21th, 1217) |
| 295000 days since | Lembitu of Lehola, Estonian soldier died. (September 21th, 1217) |
| 250000 days since | Henry Burghersh, English bishop and chancellor (b. 1292) died. (December 4th, 1340) |
| 208000 days since | Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378) died. (December 1st, 1455) |
| 185000 days since | Marmaduke Constable, English soldier died. (November 20th, 1518) |
| 185000 days since | Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer died. (November 20th, 1518) |
| 176000 days since | King Henry VIII of England marries his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr at Hampton Court Palace. (July 12th, 1543) |
| 166000 days since | Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1486) died. (November 27th, 1570) |
| 114000 days since | Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, Marshal of France (d. 1793) was born. (April 21th, 1713) |
| 111000 days since | Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (b. 1649) died. (July 8th, 1721) |
| 105000 days since | John Strype, English historian (b. 1643) died. (December 11th, 1737) |
| 95000 days since | Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (d. 1834) was born. (April 28th, 1765) |
| 90000 days since | Zebulon Pike, American explorer (d. 1813) was born. (January 5th, 1779) |
| 90000 days since | Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820) was born. (January 5th, 1779) |
| 80000 days since | John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, British field marshal (b. 1723) died. (May 24th, 1806) |
| 79000 days since | Miami University is chartered by the State of Ohio. (February 17th, 1809) |
| 77777 days since | Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia. (June 24th, 1812) |
| 77000 days since | Henri Nestlé, Swiss industrialist (d. 1890) was born. (August 10th, 1814) |
| 75000 days since | William B. Washburn, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887) was born. (January 31th, 1820) |
| 68000 days since | Benjamin Pierce, American politician (b. 1757) died. (April 1st, 1839) |
| 58000 days since | Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911) was born. (August 17th, 1866) |
| 58000 days since | Julia Marlowe, English actress (d. 1950) was born. (August 17th, 1866) |
| 55555 days since | William Charles Macready, English actor (b. 1793) died. (April 27th, 1873) |
| 45000 days since | Madeleine Milhaud, French actress (d. 2008) was born. (March 22th, 1902) |
| 43000 days since | Louis MacNeice, Irish poet (d. 1963) was born. (September 12th, 1907) |
| 42000 days since | John W. Campbell, American publisher and editor (d. 1971) was born. (June 8th, 1910) |
| 42000 days since | Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d. 2003) was born. (June 8th, 1910) |
| 41000 days since | Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976) was born. (March 4th, 1913) |
| 41000 days since | John H. Fremlin, English nuclear physicist (d. 1995) was born. (March 4th, 1913) |
| 41000 days since | John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952) was born. (March 4th, 1913) |
| 41000 days since | Willie Johnson (guitarist), American guitarist (d. 1995) was born. (March 4th, 1913) |
| 40000 days since | Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California. (November 29th, 1915) |
| 40000 days since | Billy Strayhorn, American musician and composer (d. 1967) was born. (November 29th, 1915) |
| 39000 days since | Leonard Bernstein, American conductor and composer (d. 1990) was born. (August 25th, 1918) |
| 39000 days since | Richard Greene, English actor (d. 1985) was born. (August 25th, 1918) |
| 38000 days since | Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist (d. 1989) was born. (May 21th, 1921) |
| 37000 days since | Lionel Monckton, English composer for the musical theatre (b. 1861) died. (February 15th, 1924) |
| 36000 days since | U.S. Route 66 is established. (November 11th, 1926) |
| 36000 days since | Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998) was born. (November 11th, 1926) |
| 35000 days since | Don Larsen, American baseball player was born. (August 7th, 1929) |
| 34000 days since | Robert Osborne, American film historian was born. (May 3rd, 1932) |
| 33000 days since | Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion. (January 28th, 1935) |
| 33000 days since | David Lodge, English author was born. (January 28th, 1935) |
| 33000 days since | Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (b. 1859) died. (January 28th, 1935) |
| 32000 days since | Santo Farina, American musician and composer (Santo & Johnny) was born. (October 24th, 1937) |
| 31000 days since | Denmark leaves the League of Nations. (July 20th, 1940) |
| 31000 days since | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Hatch Act of 1939, limiting political activity by Federal government employees. (July 20th, 1940) |
| 31000 days since | Tony Oliva, Cuban baseball player was born. (July 20th, 1940) |
| 30000 days since | Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD. (April 16th, 1943) |
| 30000 days since | Ruth Madoc, British actress was born. (April 16th, 1943) |
| 30000 days since | Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (d. 2000) was born. (April 16th, 1943) |
| 29000 days since | The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented. (January 10th, 1946) |
| 29000 days since | Aynsley Dunbar, English musician was born. (January 10th, 1946) |
| 28000 days since | Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician was born. (October 6th, 1948) |
| 27000 days since | Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer was born. (July 3rd, 1951) |
| 27000 days since | Jean-Claude Duvalier, Haitian politician was born. (July 3rd, 1951) |
| 26000 days since | Dianne Kay, American actress was born. (March 29th, 1954) |
| 26000 days since | Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (d. 1985) was born. (March 29th, 1954) |
| 25000 days since | Michele Alboreto, Italian Formula one driver (d. 2001) was born. (December 23th, 1956) |
| 24000 days since | Nikita Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland. (September 19th, 1959) |
| 23000 days since | Students for a Democratic Society complete the Port Huron Statement. (June 15th, 1962) |
| 23000 days since | Andrea Rost, Hungarian soprano was born. (June 15th, 1962) |
| 23000 days since | Alfred Cortot, Franco-Swiss pianist (b. 1877) died. (June 15th, 1962) |
| 22222 days since | The Belgian Congo is renamed the Republic of the Congo. (August 1st, 1964) |
| 22222 days since | Adam Duritz, American musician (Counting Crows) was born. (August 1st, 1964) |
| 22222 days since | Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934) died. (August 1st, 1964) |
| 22000 days since | Nigel Adkins, English football manager was born. (March 11th, 1965) |
| 22000 days since | Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician was born. (March 11th, 1965) |
| 22000 days since | Wallace Langham, American actor was born. (March 11th, 1965) |
| 22000 days since | Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter was born. (March 11th, 1965) |
| 21000 days since | Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer was born. (December 6th, 1967) |
| 21000 days since | Judd Aptow, American film director, and screenwriter was born. (December 6th, 1967) |
| 21000 days since | Lucia Rijker, Dutch boxer and actress was born. (December 6th, 1967) |
| 20000 days since | Attempted assassination of King Hussein of Jordan by Palestinian guerillas, who attacked his motorcade. (September 1st, 1970) |
| 20000 days since | Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor was born. (September 1st, 1970) |
| 20000 days since | Padma Lakshmi, Indian actress was born. (September 1st, 1970) |
| 20000 days since | Mitsou, Quebec singer, television and radio host, actress was born. (September 1st, 1970) |
| 20000 days since | Vanna, Croatian singer was born. (September 1st, 1970) |
| 20000 days since | François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1885) died. (September 1st, 1970) |
| 18000 days since | Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player was born. (February 22th, 1976) |
| 18000 days since | Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904) died. (February 22th, 1976) |
| 18000 days since | Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943) died. (February 22th, 1976) |
| 17000 days since | Jonestown incident: In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder-suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand. (November 18th, 1978) |
| 17000 days since | Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer was born. (November 18th, 1978) |
| 17000 days since | Jim Jones, American cult leader (suicide) (b. 1931) died. (November 18th, 1978) |
| 17000 days since | Leo Ryan, U.S. Congressman (b. 1925) died. (November 18th, 1978) |
| 16000 days since | Matthew Etherington, English footballer was born. (August 14th, 1981) |
| 16000 days since | Julius Jones, American football player was born. (August 14th, 1981) |
| 16000 days since | Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894) died. (August 14th, 1981) |
| 16000 days since | Dudley Nourse, South African cricketer (b. 1910) died. (August 14th, 1981) |
| 15000 days since | Edward Mujica. Venezuelan baseball player was born. (May 10th, 1984) |
| 14000 days since | Lucie Šafárová, Czech tennis player was born. (February 4th, 1987) |
| 14000 days since | Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan feminist and founder of RAWA (b. 1956) died. (February 4th, 1987) |
| 14000 days since | Liberace, American musician (b. 1919) died. (February 4th, 1987) |
| 14000 days since | Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902) died. (February 4th, 1987) |
| 13000 days since | Ben Brooks, British motocross racer was born. (October 31th, 1989) |
| 13000 days since | was born. (October 31th, 1989) |
| 12000 days since | Max Dupain, Australian photographer (b. 1911) died. (July 27th, 1992) |
| 11111 days since | Siad Barre, President of Somalia (b. 1919) died. (January 2nd, 1995) |
| 11111 days since | Nancy Kelly, American actress (b. 1921) died. (January 2nd, 1995) |
| 11000 days since | Howard Cosell, American sports journalist (b. 1918) died. (April 23th, 1995) |
| 11000 days since | John C. Stennis, U.S. Senator from Mississippi (b. 1904) died. (April 23th, 1995) |
| 10000 days since | Paula Jones accuses President Bill Clinton of sexual harassment. (January 17th, 1998) |
| 10000 days since | Junior Kimbrough, American bluesman (b. 1930) died. (January 17th, 1998) |
| 9000 days since | Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926) died. (October 13th, 2000) |
| 8000 days since | A Neoplan bus, owned by Kowloon Motor Bus, collides with a truck, falls off a bridge on Tuen Mun Road, Hong Kong, and plunges into the underlying valley, killing 21 people. This is the deadliest traffic accident to date in Hong Kong. (July 10th, 2003) |
| 8000 days since | Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908) died. (July 10th, 2003) |
| 8000 days since | Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902) died. (July 10th, 2003) |
| 8000 days since | Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician died. (July 10th, 2003) |
| 7000 days since | Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941) died. (April 5th, 2006) |
| 6000 days since | Dick Green, Canadian actor died. (December 30th, 2008) |