What Happened Today 📅 🗓️

This actor retrieves historical events, births, and deaths that occurred on any specified date throughout history. It provides well-structured information about significant historical occurrences.

Features ✨

• Retrieve historical events for any specific date
• Get structured data including events, births, and deaths
• Data categorized by different types of historical events
• Clean and organized JSON output
• Flexible date input format

Input Parameters 📝

The actor accepts the following input parameter:

• date (Required): Date in YYYY-MM-DD format (e.g., "2024-11-30")

Use Cases 🎯

• Historical research and documentation
• Educational content creation
• Today-in-history features for websites and apps
• Social media content planning
• Historical data analysis

Tips 💡

• Use consistent date format (YYYY-MM-DD) for reliable results
• Consider rate limiting when making multiple requests
• Check the output data structure for proper integration

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Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "date": "2024-11-30" 
3}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2	{
3		"year": 1982,
4		"title": "Michael Jackson’s Thriller is released worldwide",
5		"description": "  Thought to be the best selling album of all time, the album, which had 9 tracks, won 8 Grammy Awards, including the award for Album of the Year in 1984.",
6		"category": "what happened on this day – 30 november"
7	},
8	{
9		"year": 1835,
10		"title": "Mark Twain",
11		"description": "American author",
12		"category": "births on this day – 30 november"
13	},
14    ...
15]