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Ambit's Today In History - Daily listing of political, sports, musical, and other historical events and milestones.

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

Born on this Day in History - 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.

BrainyHistory - Today in History - What happened on each day in history. Thousands of events going back 2000 years.

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

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

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

Encarta: On this Day in History - Daily listing of political, sports, musical, and other historical events and milestones.

Historic Events and Birthdates that Occurred on a Selected Month and Year - Celebrity birthdays and various world events in a given month and year.

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

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

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

IMDb.com: Today in Movies - Births, deaths, marriages, and names of films released on this day.

Infoplease.com - This Day in History - Events that occurred on any day in history.

It's History - 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.

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

MightyCool.com: Today In History - A short list of historic and sporting events, births and deaths. A longer list may be received by e-mail.

Munirah Chronicle: Today in Black History - A daily report of black history.

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

New Deal Network: This Day in New Deal History - Features dates of important US events in the 1930s and birthdays of people who played key roles in the history of the era.

Nickey's Postcards Today In History - Famous birthdays and events.

On This Date in North American Indian History - Presenting historical events, tribal name meanings, and Indian moon names.

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

On-This-Day.com - Daily historical facts and events, famous birthdays, world history, music history, and quote of the day.

Scrapbook: Day in History - Search by date or year for important events in history.

Sticking It To The Man - History of The Man - Timeline of the fight against the establishment in history. Pokes fun at corporate greed, business stupidity and political dirty dealings.

TheHistoryNet: Today In History - Events in history that happened on the month and day of today's date.

This Day in Greek History - Photos and description of events that happened on this day in Greek history.

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

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

Those Were the Days - Summary of news factoids, famous birthdays, and popular music on this day in history; updated weekly.

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

Today in History - News feed from Associated Press.

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

Today in Rotten History - Highlights various morbid or unfortunate events in history.

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

Today-in-History - 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.

Tom's Book of Days - This day in literary and cultural history.

War Between the States Calendar - Day by day during the War for Southern Independence.

Ward's Book of Days - What happened on this day in history. Anniversaries, famous birthdays and critical events.

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