Here are some links to some websites that you can use to find out what happened on your particular day.
If you find any of these websites particularly useful or not useful, or find a better one, please leave a comment.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/onthisday.aspx
http://www.reference.com/thisday/
NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html
Click on the date and see what happened on each day – http://www.brainyhistory.com/events.html
This one is similar to the one above but scroll down past the birthdays – http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/
Strangely this information is on a scrapbooking website but it works http://scrapbookscrapbook.com/
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