Any Day In History, On this Day, This Day in History

Events on My Birthday, What Happened Today?

Compiled by Bruce Gurnick, Reseda High School, Reseda, California.

This is a collection of websites where you can research historic information, important events, famous births, famous deaths, and similar bits of information, for any day of the year.  Just click on any of the links below to take you to a site. 

(This list was created on 5/17/2004 and edited 06/06/2005. Let your teacher know if any of the links no longer work.)

If you have an assignment or project to do, be sure to check SEVERAL of the website links below. 

You may find different information on each site, even though much of the information looks similar.

1. http://timelines.ws 

   An amazing compilation of timeline information starting from the Big Bang and going to the present.

2. http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/

3. http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/tdih.jsp?category=leadstory

4. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html

5. http://www.on-this-day.com/

6. http://www.440.com/twtd/today.html

7. http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/

    (Click the link “Go to previous day” at the top of the page, under today’s date. It is very tiny, but it is up there, at the top .)

8. http://www.todayinhistory.com/

9. http://www.tnl.net/when/today

10. http://search.teach-nology.com/today/today2.pl

11. http://www.historyorb.com/today/index.php

12. http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/docs/tdih/

13. http://www.brainyhistory.com/

14. http://www.famousbirthdays.com/

15. http://www.anydayinhistory.com/

Other Links

Reseda High School  ("dot  net")

Reseda High School  ("dot com")

Reseda High School  (legacy site)