ThisDay tells you everything you want to know about today, or any other day: holidays, “today in history”, famous birthdays, etc.

Highlights include:

• Historical events for every day (over 650 entries)
• National holidays
• Obscure holidays and observances
• Ancient Roman festivals
• Jewish holidays
• Full Chinese calendar support: major and minor traditional festivals, and year names, for any year
• Chinese solar terms
• Movable Christian feasts (Easter, Shrove Tuesday, etc.)
• Roman Catholic calendar of saints
• Famous and notable birthdays for every day (over 1200 entries)
• Equinox and solstice times (earth seasons)
• Moon phase information
• Most entries have links to Wikipedia for more information (you will need a network connection to browse to Wikipedia).

Wikipedia entries open within the application for the best user experience.

There is no “information overload” here – rather than swamp you with everything that ever happened in history, we've edited it to just the interesting stuff. It's all researched and verified to avoid spreading urban legends.

Many of the competing “this day in history” applications have their events copied and pasted, word for word, straight from Wikipedia. Don't pay for that kind of laziness. You can get that in a web browser.

Browse from day to day, or directly choose any day you'd like to see. Win trivia games, catch up on history a piece at a time, or find excuses to take a day off from work. Learn about the world.