What Happened on My Birthday?
Online Databases:
Check out the information in these WMS resources.
- InfoTrac Good for biographical information. Do a search of a person, then look for results that are from UXL Junior DISCovering Authors or UXL Biographies.
- Grolier Online Click on "Today is," then "What happened on another day?"
- SIRS Discoverer Click on World Almanac for Kids, then "Table of Contents, then "Birthdays"
- Scribner Writers Series Go to the authors list for biographies.
Internet sites:
Here are some good web pages:
- Molecular Expressions: Birthstone Collections Click on the birthstone for more detailed information.
- Author and Illustrator Almanac Select month, then date. Links to author info. No July or August.
- This Day in History From the History Channel, you may enter any date and category.
- Author Birth Dates An exhaustive listing, includes July and August.
- Today in History The Library of Congress' American Memories Site, go to #2 to change the date.
- Author and Illustrator Calendar You MUST Scroll to the bottom of the "Table of Contents" and UNCHECK the box "Automated Flip Page" in order for the calendar to work .
- On-This-Day History, sports, music and more. to find your birthday, use the "Search" button at the top of the page and type in your birthday. For best results, spell out your month, i.e. August 7. If you only want to search for music or famous people, you may click on the topics on the left.
- This Day in Baseball History Select another day on right.
- InfoPlease: This Day in History Scroll to the bottom of the current day's listing. You can input your birthday. Underlined words and phrases are hot links to further information. Annoying pop-unders.
- 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.
- On this day From Encarta, daily listing of political, sports, musical, and other historical events and milestones.
- Any year Find out EXACTLY what happened on the day you were born
- IMDb Movie buff? Births, deaths, marriages, and names of films released on this day