Today in History App

Do you enjoy quick tidbits of information?  Does history interest you?  Then you might like the app Today in History.  Available in the iTunes app store for $1.99 (or you can get the ad-supported version for free), it lets you look up all sorts of historical information just like the app name suggests, things that happened Today in History.  Starting with the most recent events, it lists significant events that occurred all around the world on the given date, and it goes backward in time the further down you scroll.  One date I looked at dated back to 1026AD!!

The app also has categories for Births, Deaths, and Holidays so you can see what famous/important people were born or died on this day in history, and if it is a holiday anywhere in the world.  You can preview the sort of information that the app displays by visiting the website, www.todayhistory.net.  In addition to just displaying the brief information, you can also click on an event and view more details, or click on a related link and visit the Wikipedia entry.  This can lead to all sorts of interesting articles to let you dig deeper into the historical event or related places or people.

Interestingly, the app also has some built in social aspects as well, where you can add historical events to your favourites list, or you can comment on them.  You can also send any event to Facebook, Twitter, or to a friend via email or text message.  You can even submit your own events for consideration in the app - I haven't tried that yet (somehow I don't think that anyone else out there would be too interested in reading about "Got my winter tires on today").

You could however use the Private event option for creating events that only you want to keep track of, which I thought would be neat for tracking a baby's milestones, especially ones that you would almost certainly forget when they are older, like when they learned to sit unassisted, or exactly when they finally sprouted that first tooth.

If you think you might like it I would go for the free version to try it out, and once you know if you enjoy having all that historical information at your fingertips, then go for it and pick up the full version for $1.99 here in the app store: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/today-in-history/id312028507?mt=8  You'll never be without something interesting to say with such an interesting reference at your fingertips.

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