Open Directory - Society: History: On This Day in History
See also: This category in other languages: - Daily listing of political, sports, musical, and other historical events and milestones. - Video and audio for this day in history from the BBC news archive 1950-2002. - A searchable database of 80,000 famous people by day of birth, name, and fame. Also offers daily quotations, famous creative women section, and quote lookup. - What happened on each day in history. Thousands of events going back 2000 years. - The searchable text version of Robert Chambers 1864 work The Book of Days. - Daily calendar of historical events to be remembered by political progressives and radicals. - Celebrity birthdays and various world events in a given month and year. - Searchable archive of important events, famous births and deaths spanning hundreds of years. Articles on specific historical events and broad trends. - Historical facts illustrated by items from the collections of IISH, NEHA and Press Museum. - Births, deaths, marriages, and names of films released on this day. - Events that occurred on any day in history. - Find out what happened on this day in history. A ten megabyte fully searchable database of events, births and deaths for any day in history. - Based on a German radio show, and featuring news stories, birthdays, and major events, with a searchable database. {English and German] - A short list of historic and sporting events, births and deaths. A longer list may be received by e-mail. - A searchable database of more than 140,000 famous births, events, and deaths that happened on this day in history. - Features dates of important US events in the 1930s and birthdays of people who played key roles in the history of the era. - Famous birthdays and events. - Presenting historical events, tribal name meanings, and Indian moon names. - Daily historical facts and events, famous birthdays, world history, music history, and quote of the day. - Search by date or year for important events in history. - Events in history that happened on the month and day of today's date. - 1960s daily news updates on what happened 50 years ago today in the Cold War, politics, science, the arts, religion, leisure and society. - Happenings from history including birthdays and death dates of popular personalities, innovative and scientific events. - Summary of news factoids, famous birthdays, and popular music on this day in history; updated weekly. - Highlights various morbid or unfortunate events in history. - A calendar of anniversaries in geology, evolutionary biology, historical linguistics, historical geography, archeology, cosmology, and other sciences that study the past. - Historical events, birthdates, holidays and religious observances around the world. Pages for 'any month of any year' or 'any date' for historical facts listings. Daily quotation. - This day in literary and cultural history. - What happened on this day in history. Anniversaries, famous birthdays and critical events. - Enables users to create printable "Time Capsules" for any date from 1800 to 2001, although "data for the years 1800 - 1875 is probably spotty."
