On This Day in History Websites

Based on a German radio show, and featuring news stories, birthdays, and major events, with a searchable database. {English and German]

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

Events that occurred on any day in history.

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

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.

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

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

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

Archives of historic and important events, famous birthdays, weddings, deaths and famous people from 6,000 years of history.