Days he has spent vacationing at his California ranch: 132
5/84Rank of Mother’s Day among all days in the number of long-distance calls placed: 1
For workers in the Soviet Union: 15
3/86Percentage of all bills Congress passed in 1985 that established commemorative days, weeks, or months: 36
9/86Days spent on strike by British workers in 1979: 29,474,000
7/87Estimated oil reserves in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (in barrels): 3,200,000,000
Number of those days that were Wednesdays: 4
1/88Average number of days Mario Cuomo traveled outside New York State each year from 1984 to 1986: 16
12/89Rank of the day after the San Francisco earthquake, among days with the most long-distance calls ever made: 1
7/89Number of stories about George Bush that aired on the evening network news during his first 100 days in office: 336
Number of stories about Jimmy Carter that aired during his first 100 days in office: 906
1/90Number of days in prison to which Zsa Zsa Gabor was sentenced in 1989 for slapping a police officer: 3
1/90Number of days after a truck bomb killed 241 U.S. Marines in Beirut that the United States invaded Grenada: 2
2/90Average number of days a divorced middle-aged American woman spends sick in bed each year: 14
3/90Number of days after the invasion of Panama that an Oregon software company introduced the game Find Noriega!: 2
1/92Total presidential campaign funds raised by George Bush in his first two days of fund-raising last fall: $2,200,000
Total campaign funds raised by the six Democratic presidential candidates as of last October: $2,200,000
2/92Estimated change in average U.S. temperatures this winter due to a volcanic eruption in the Philippines last year: -0.9° F
Estimated number of days the Washington, D.C., cherry-blossom season will be delayed this year due to the eruption: 7
5/92Number of days last year that Denmark’s largest newspaper ran no political coverage to protest bad government: 100
7/92Days after the Kent State killings in 1970 that Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released their song “Ohio”: 31
4/93Average number of phone calls received each hour by the White House during Bill Clinton’s first 10 days in office: 2,500
7/93Number of presidentially appointed federal jobs that Bill Clinton had not filled after 100 days in office: 1,800
8/93Days elapsed between the fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and the first TV movie about it: 34
6/94Rank of Father’s Day among days on which the largest number of collect calls are made: 1
9/94Cost of developing and growing the grass playing field used for the World Cup at Michigan’s Silverdome: $2,400,000
4/95Days in jail served by a Michigan man last year after being convicted of secretly videotaping people using his bathroom: 75
9/95Days after the Pentagon announced in June that it didn’t need more Stealth bombers that the House voted to fund more: 10
1/96Number of days after escaping a Danish prison last August that an inmate asked to be allowed back in: 26
12/96Days an Ohio public school suspended a 11-year-old girl last October for giving a Midol tablet to her classmate: 80
2/96Days in jail served by a California man convicted last year of killing one graffiti vandal and wounding another: 4
2/96Days after a baby was taken from a murdered woman’s womb last fall that Newt Gingrich blamed “the welfare state”: 4
7/96Days in jail to which a British retiree was sentenced in February for excessive pigeon feeding: 56
8/96Days in jail to which a Pennsylvania man was sentenced last March for repeatedly oinking at his ex-wife: 30
9/96Rank of the elderly among age groups most likely to believe Bob Dole’s age would make him a “less able” president: 1
Days after Dole’s daughter was laid off from work last year that she began campaigning for her father: 2
11/97Days after Mexico’s drug czar was arrested this year for corruption that his lawyer was arrested for bribing jurors: 165
5/97Number of days before winning the U.S. Figure Skating Championship last winter that Tara Lipinski lost a baby tooth: 5
1/98Average number of performance days lost per high-school cheerleading injury each year: 28.8
1/98Rolls of toilet paper received in lieu of an annual bonus last fall by each worker at a Moscow clock factory: 150
12/98Chance that a House member voted last June in favor of a constitutional amendment allowing school prayer: 1 in 2
Chance that a member attended Congress’s opening daily prayer on any of the three days preceding the vote: 1 in 29
12/98Number of days this year during which Norway’s Prime Minister Kjell Bondevik was “too depressed” to work: 24
12/98Percentage of days that Bill Clinton has spent in the White House this year: 44
3/98Ratio of chickens killed last January in Hong Kong’s flu scare to total chickens sold in the U.S. each day at KFCs: 3:2
Days of prayer that Buddhist monks and nuns devoted to the souls of slaughtered chickens last winter in Hong Kong: 7
5/98Number of House votes that Representative Jay Kim’s 1997 campaign-finance-fraud conviction will cause him to miss: 0
7/98Number of days last March that a Georgia teen was suspended after wearing a Pepsi shirt on his school’s “Coke Day”: 1
9/98Days a Denver school principal was put on leave last May for allowing students a sip of wine on a trip to Paris: 13
1/99Extra days of legal duck hunting this month in three Southern states as a result of Senator Trent Lott’s lobbying: 14
10/99Minimum number of TV markets in which last August’s FCC vote will allow networks to own more than one station: 50
Days after the FCC vote that a TV executive told the [NewYorkTimes|New York Times that he was eager to play the “duopoly game”: 1
10/99Amount of corporate funding or advertising accepted by the Pacifica Radio Network’s five stations since 1949: 0
Number of days last July that Pacifica locked out the entire staff of Berkeley’s KPFA over internal politics: 17
10/99Number of days last August that Iowa hosted both the GOP presidential straw poll and the National Hobo Convention: 1
12/99Days before Time Warner’s Fortune Global Forum opened in China last fall that China banned Time’s special China issue: 6
2/99Estimated number of people, per 10,000, who died of starvation in one Sudanese village over ten days last July: 69
2/99Number of tourists taken hostage by striking Club Med workers in Martinique for three days last November: 287
5/99Days the President should spend in jail “simply for hitting on a dog like” Paula Jones, according to O.J. Simpson: 30
8/99Weight in pounds of a bronze elephant donated to the U.N. last year by Kenya, Namibia, and Nepal: 7,000
Number of days before its unveiling last winter that shrubs and potted trees were positioned to obscure its penis: 1
8/99Number of days it took the German army to conquer Yugoslavia in World War II’s “Operation Punishment”: 11
8/99Number of days last year that a British art museum exhibited a mound of dung from Dolly, the world’s first cloned sheep: 51
8/99Days after President Roosevelt’s death in April 1945 that Vice President Truman was told the atomic bomb existed: 13
8/99Days it took Eleanor Roosevelt that year to decline an invitation to run for U.S. senator from New York: 5
9/99Maximum amount of time that a recent Texas bill proposed holding suspects before assigning a lawyer, in days: 20
1/00Days of imprisonment and torture undergone by Niccolò Machiavelli after falling out of favor with the Medicis in 1513: 28
Number of years later that his book The Prince was published, with a dedication to Lorenzo de’ Medici: 19
11/00Days by which a Texan’s prison sentence for candy-bar theft this year exceeded his sentence for marijuana possession: 550
12/00Days after his appointment last July that Japan’s top finance regulator resigned over “suspicious” payments he’d received: 26
2/00Days after China announced it would begin acquiring offensive weapons that it was accepted into the WTO last fall: 7
2/00Days after Ukraine reopened a nuclear reactor at Chernobyl last November that a water leak forced a shutdown: 6
4/00Number of days a Norse woman incubated a bird’s egg between her breasts last spring before giving up: 28
5/00Number of days of Israeli bombing it took last winter to disable a Lebanon power grid for a year: 1
6/00Rank of Father’s Day among days on which the largest number of collect calls are made in the U.S.: 1
9/00Number of years of planning and construction devoted to France’s Maginot Line fortifications in World War II: 15
1/01Days after Al Gore’s birth in 1948 that the States’ Rights Party nominated Senator Strom Thurmond for president: 108
11/01Year in which the French recognized the murder of two thirds of Turkey’s Armenians during World War I as “genocide”: 2001
11/01Number of days a Quebec protester was jailed in April for allegedly catapulting three stuffed animals at police: 17
3/01Days after Time named George W. Bush 2000’s man of the year that Russians named Vladimir Lenin man of the century: 4
5/01Days after a rare turtle died in Miami last spring that a local aquarium staff member made it into a soup: 1
6/01Average number of minutes devoted to President Bush on network evening news during each of his first 50 days in office: 9.24
Average number of minutes devoted to President Clinton during each of his first 50 days in office: 18.04
6/01Estimated number of blank ballots cast in protest during Israel’s national election in February: 56,000
Days before the election that the Israeli supreme court rejected a request that blank ballots be counted: 4
7/01Days after Dow Jones laid off 202 workers that its CEO published a scathing review of his Caribbean vacation: 1
12/02Days it takes an adult in Los Angeles to breathe in more air pollution than EPA guidelines recommend for a lifetime: 25
2/02Total annualized percentage return on New York City’s stock markets on perfectly sunny days between 1982 and 1997: +25
3/02Months after George H. W. Bush lost the 1992 election that James Baker began lobbying Kuwait on Enron’s behalf: 5
Days before Enron declared bankruptcy that Baker’s public-policy institute awarded Alan Greenspan its “Enron Prize”: 19
3/02Total number of opposition candidates who ran for the 84 seats in Singapore’s parliament last November: 24
4/02Days earlier than in 1970 that Washington, D.C., cherry blossoms now bloom: 6
5/02Days after September 11 that New Jersey’s Iman Abdallah applied to trademark the phrase “Let’s roll”: 11
Days later that the foundation named for the man who immortalized the phrase applied to trademark it: 4
6/02Years U.S. Latin American policy adviser Otto Reich was a lobbyist for Mobil Oil before his appointment in January: 6
Years into his ambassadorship that he was cited for creating illegal “covert propaganda” in the Iran-Contra scandal: 1
Days after April’s Venezuelan coup that he attributed his ignorance of events there to an “information blackout”: 4
6/02Days the University of Georgia heated its campus last winter by burning chicken fat and other leftover food grease: 21
7/02Days after receiving it last year that a California dump lost its landmark status because it is a Superfund site: 20
Amount spent since 1989 to clean up the site: $23,000,000
8/02Days that a U.S. soldier was investigated in May for calling Bush”a joke” in a letter to a newspaper: 10
9/02Days before Bolivia’s June election that the U.S. ambassador warned Bolivians not to vote for the Socialist candidate: 4
11/03Days after announcing this conclusion last July that the Geological Survey issued a memo discounting it: 7
12/03Days after a 1961 meeting with Khrushchev that President Kennedy leaked claims of U.S. nuclear-missile superiority: 29
6/03Days that AT&T ceased its TV advertising last March “out of respect for the U.S. military operation in Iraq”: 3
6/03Days after the U.S. invaded Iraq that Sony trademarked “Shock & Awe” for video games: 1
1/04Days that the NYPD suspended a cop without pay last winter for refusing to arrest a man for sleeping in a parking lot: 30
1/04Days in 1970 that northern Alaska was cold enough to operate oil-drilling machinery without damaging the tundra: 213
10/04Days since the U.S. government first placed the nation under an “elevated terror alert” that the level has been relaxed: 0
10/04Days a House committee postponed July hearings on antidepressants while its chair considered a pharmaceutical-lobbyist job: 50
11/04Days after the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that Dick Cheney married, securing a draft deferment: 22
3/04Days after George W. Bush announced plans for a Moon base that the Hubble telescope’s maintenance was discontinued: 2
3/04Days after Italian magistrates began investigating food conglomerate Parmalat last December that its former CEO was jailed: 8
3/04Days after a columnist outed an undercover CIA officer last year that the Justice Department began investigating it: 74
3/04Days after Paul O’Neill criticized the President on TV in January that the former treasury secretary came under investigation: 1
5/04Days before last year’s invasion of Iraq that Osama bin Laden called Saddam Hussein a “socialist infidel”: 36
5/04Days into the 1999 NATO bombing of Kosovo that candidate George W. Bush observed, “Victory means exit strategy”: 17
5/04Days after Smith & Wesson Holding appointed a chairman last winter that he resigned over old armed-robbery convictions: 38
7/04Number of days this year that the Small Business Administration’s largest loan program shut down for lack of funds: 8
7/04Days after McDonald’s CEO died of a heart attack last April that the firm’s ex-CEO for Japan did the same: 2
10/05Days after the London attacks that Bush said the U.S. was at war abroad “so we do not have to face them here at home”: 4
11/05Days after Katrina hit that Dick Cheney’s office ordered an electric company to restore power to two oil pipelines: 1
11/05Days after Hurricane Katrina that the White House authorized sending federal troops to New Orleans: 4
12/05Chances that one of the 126 Wal-Marts shut down by Hurricane Katrina reopened within ten days: 9 in 10
12/05Days after Katrina hit that the first strip club was reopened in New Orleans: 20
Percentage of their income from “dollar dances” that its strippers are donating to relief efforts: 100
2/05Average total cost for a U.S. eighty-year-old to live out the rest of his or her days on a luxury cruise ship: $230,497
Average cost to live them out in an assisted-living facility: $228,075
3/05Minimum number of days that a Florida couple picketed their home in December to get their children to do more chores: 17
3/05Days after Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston separated in January that an Us Weekly executive called the story “our tsunami”: 4
Number of saplings that Pitt paid to have planted in Bhutan last year to counteract his personal CO2 production: 1,700
4/05Number of U.S. residents convicted of “international terrorism” between fall 2001 and fall 2003: 184
10/06Days beforehand that Deep Purple had to cancel the July 27 Lebanon date on its “Rapture of the Deep” tour: 4
11/06Days before the end of this fiscal year that Medicare payments to doctors and hospitals will be halted: 9
8/06Total number of days that the 2005‒6 House of Representatives is scheduled to have met by the end of its term: 241
Last two-year term whose House met for fewer days: 1955‒56
12/07Number of lap dancers whose tips and menstrual cycles were tracked by a recent University of New Mexico study: 18
Percentage by which a dancer’s tips during fertile days exceeded those during menstruation: 92
Percentage brought to trial who are convicted: 99.9
9/07Days by which the average length of the western U.S. wildfire season since 2000 has exceeded that in the 1970s: 92
3/08Chances that a rejected application for Social Security disability benefits is approved if appealed: 3 in 5
5/08Days of “heartache leave” that employees of one Japanese cosmetics company are allowed to take each year: 3
9/08Days in jail that Canton, Ohio, now imposes on repeat offenders of the city’s lawn-mowing requirement: 30
1/09Days since the federal government first placed the nation under an “elevated terror alert” that the level has been relaxed: 0
1/09Days after the U.S. invaded Iraq that Sony trademarked “Shock & Awe” for video games: 1
1/09Days after Hurricane Katrina hit that Cheney’s office ordered an electric company to restore power to two oil pipelines: 1
Days after the hurricane that the White House authorized sending federal troops into New Orleans: 4
2/09Price for one D.C. hotel’s “Eco-Inaugural” package, which includes use of a Lexus hybrid and a driver for four days: $40,000
2/09Days after the Columbine shootings in 1999 that Eric Holder called for “regulations in how people interact on the Internet”: 5
3/09Number of days in November that a family farm near Denver opened up its fields for free picking: 1
Number of people who showed up: 40,000