What Happened Today
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What Happened Today
2 hours trial then $19.99/month - No credit card required now
Retrieve historical events, births, and deaths for any specific date. Get structured data about what happened on this day in history 📅
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
Need help or have questions? Feel free to reach out through Apify's support channels! 🤝
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]
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Created in Nov 2024
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