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 Web Based Learning @Winnipeg School Division 

  Senior 1 Social Studie - Today in History 
  Web Sites for 365 days of the year

Students: 
Review the assignment outline given by the teacher, research needs, and how your research is to be presented in a final report or project. Know what marks are given for the research and how the Web URL references are to be listed. 
Many teachers assign your date as your date of birth and you are to find out  important things for that day in history and specifically on your actual birth date.  

Check this out first
Today in History - Canadian content!
http://www.historytelevision.ca/TodayInHistory/TodayInHistory.asp

Then, choose one of the 2 below:
Today in History January to June
http://www.kwtv.com/today/archive-1/index.html
Today in History July to December
http://www.kwtv.com/today/archive-2/index.html

Then, go to
Martin's Birthday Calendar: know the weekday you were born, and the weekday your future birthdays will fall upon
http://pktw06.phy.tu-dresden.de/~dickopp/birthday.html

Then, check out the following web sites
The Daily Globe Searchable Dates Archive
Click on the date of the selected month and you get access to the database:
http://www.dailyglobe.com/day2day.html

Today in All Kinds of History
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Pantheon/1027/indexhis.htm/

I Share My Birthday with
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/

Those were the days 440 International
http://www.440.com/twtd/today.html

Yarra Net Australia 'On This Day'
http://www.yarranet.net.au/onthisday/

Daily Almanac - Michael Jaggio
http://shoga.wwa.com/~mjm/almanac2.html

The History Channel USA
http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/

Any Day by Scope Systems
http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/

CNN Daily News Almanac Achieve / "On This Day" 1998-1996
http://www.cnn.com/almanac/archive.html

Yahooligans Q&A on This Day
http://www2.yahooligans.com/docs/tdih/

On This Day in Movie History the stars were born, married or died
http://www.imdb.com/M/on-this-day

This Day in Music History
http://DataDragon.com/day/

This day in Rock and Roll
http://www.arrowfm.com/cgi/history.pl

Mathematicians Anniversaries on this day
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Day_files/Year.html

American Memory Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html

Next, check out the Moon's appearance and the calendar on your birthday
The Moon's phase on the day you were born
http://imagiware.com/astro/moon.cgi

Moon Phases for the month you were born
http://www.googol.com/moon/

Calendar for the year you were born - see the arrangement of the week
http://www.earth.com/calendar

Perpetual Calendar
http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/cgi/cal.cgi

A history of time from NIST
Time exhibits.html

To end your research, get into these web site links
Today in the History Web Sites - many links:
http://www.hist.unt.edu/2dayhist.htm  

Sir Roger Bannister video from BBC on the 50th anniversary of the 'Four Minute Mile' May 6, 1954