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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/default.stm
Video and audio for this day in history from the BBC news archive 1950-2002.
http://born-on-this-day.com/
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.
http://www.brainyhistory.com/
What happened on each day in history. Thousands of events going back 2000 years.
http://www.thebookofdays.com/
The searchable text version of Robert Chambers 1864 work The Book of Days.
http://www.dmarie.com/timecap/
Enables users to create printable "Time Capsules" for any date from 1800 to 2001, although "data for the years 1800 - 1875 is probably spotty."
http://www.scopesys.com/year/
Celebrity birthdays and various world events in a given month and year.
http://www.imdb.com/date/
Births, deaths, marriages, and names of films released on this day.
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
Events that occurred on any day in history.
http://kalenderblatt.de/
Based on a German radio show, and featuring news stories, birthdays, and major events, with a searchable database. {English and German]
http://www.ncbuy.com/reference/todayinhistory/
A searchable database of more than 140,000 famous births, events, and deaths that happened on this day in history.
http://newdeal.feri.org/days/01.htm
Features dates of important US events in the 1930s and birthdays of people who played key roles in the history of the era.
http://nickeysurf.com/postcards/today.html
Famous birthdays and events.
http://www.on-this-day.com/
Daily historical facts and events, famous birthdays, world history, music history, and quote of the day.
http://www.onthisday.com/
Archives of historic and important events, famous birthdays, weddings, deaths and famous people from 6,000 years of history.
http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/whathappenedwhen.html
Search by date or year for important events in history.
http://www.historynet.com/
Events in history that happened on the month and day of today's date.
http://thisdayinthe60s.blogspot.com/
1960s daily news updates on what happened 50 years ago today in the Cold War, politics, science, the arts, religion, leisure and society.
http://www.thisdaythatyear.com/
Happenings from history including birthdays and death dates of popular personalities, innovative and scientific events.
http://www.rotten.com/today/
Highlights various morbid or unfortunate events in history.
http://rjohara.net/darwin/calendar/
A calendar of anniversaries in geology, evolutionary biology, historical linguistics, historical geography, archeology, cosmology, and other sciences that study the past.
http://www.scopesys.com/today/
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.
http://www.rightreading.com/daybook.htm
This day in literary and cultural history.
http://www.wardsbookofdays.com/
What happened on this day in history. Anniversaries, famous birthdays and critical events.
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