This Day in History

Each day offers several headlines of important events in 20th century history, with each headline linking to a full article about the event. Searchable.

Biography.com presents a collection of famous people and their biographies if they were born today. Not searchable.

By selecting a month, you will obtain a lengthy page that provides a timeline for every day in the month. This site provides a good selection of events and has a British slant.

This fantastic History Channel site provides a lengthy summary of one key event that happened today and provides links to information about historical events on this day in topics such as WWII, automotive history, business history, technology history, and more. Searchable.

A short list of events that happened on this day. American-focused. Starts on current date but offers ability to choose what date to view.

An American historical event from this day in history, emphasizing the materials contained in the Library of Congress' American Memory collection. The archive and yesterday's information is easily accessible.

A fascinating collection of historic, American political events.

This New York Times site lists worldwide events that happened today with an emphasis on more recent years in history. It also provides an image of the Times front cover and the full text of a featured historical event from this day.

Select any day for an eclectic collection of birthdays, deaths, holidays, and "historic" events.

One select historical event from this day with an emphasis on Asia; not searchable or archived.

Negative and disturbing historical events that happened on this day.

This day in history for kids; provides one event each day in question-and-answer format.