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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.

Enables users to create printable "Time Capsules" for any date from 1800 to 2001, although "data for the years 1800 - 1875 is probably spotty."

A free history fact emailed every morning that is entertainment-based and written by professional historians.

Daily historical facts and events, famous birthdays, world history, music history, and quote of the day.

Famous birthdays and events.

A short list of historic and sporting events, births and deaths. A longer list may be received by e-mail.

Daily listing of political, sports, musical, and other historical events and milestones.

Richly illustrated non-commercial daily chronology of Oregon history, including both important and offbeat events.

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.

Searchable archive of important events, famous births and deaths spanning hundreds of years. Articles on specific historical events and broad trends.

Summary of news factoids, famous birthdays, and popular music on this day in history; updated weekly.

A daily report of black history.

A calendar of anniversaries in geology, evolutionary biology, historical linguistics, historical geography, archeology, cosmology, and other sciences that study the past.

Highlights various morbid or unfortunate events 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.

Timeline of the fight against the establishment in history. Pokes fun at corporate greed, business stupidity and political dirty dealings.

Day by day during the War for Southern Independence.

The searchable text version of Robert Chambers 1864 work The Book of Days.

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.

Daily listing of political, sports, musical, and other historical events and milestones.

Events that occurred on any day in history.

Find what happened in Indian history on any date. Provides details of historic events, birth dates, and death dates.

Video and audio for this day in history from the BBC news archive 1950-2002.

Photos and description of events that happened on this day in Greek history.

Births, deaths, marriages, and names of films released on this day.

Find out what happened on this day in Canadian military history.

Happenings from history including birthdays and death dates of popular personalities, innovative and scientific events.

Daily calendar of historical events to be remembered by political progressives and radicals.

Events in history that happened on the month and day of today's date.

Search by date or year for important events in history.

A searchable database of more than 140,000 famous births, events, and deaths that happened on this day in history.

Historical facts illustrated by items from the collections of IISH, NEHA and Press Museum.

Listing for each day of the year of well known peoples birthdays, deaths and important events as well as trivia.

This day in literary and cultural history.

What happened on this day in history. Anniversaries, famous birthdays and critical events.

1960s daily news updates on what happened 50 years ago today in the Cold War, politics, science, the arts, religion, leisure and society.

News feed from Associated Press.

Celebrity birthdays and various world events in a given month and year.

What happened on each day in history. Thousands of events going back 2000 years.

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