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Wikipedia Historical Events On This Day Oracle

Returns historical events, births, and scientific milestones that occurred on a given month and day.

Call it (no API key)

GET https://api.agentdatahub.de/api/v1/call/wiki-on-this-day?month=07&day=20&compact=1

Full metadata: without compact=1 · Markdown: format=llm · Only some fields: add &fields=a,b.c · MCP: tool call_api with {"apiId":"wiki-on-this-day"}

Parameters

Example response (live, compact)

{
  "apiId": "wiki-on-this-day",
  "data_freshness": "cached",
  "data": {
    "date": "07-20",
    "selected_historical_events": [
      {
        "year": 2015,
        "text": "A suicide attack (aftermath pictured) in Suruç, Turkey, for which Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility, killed 34 people and injured 104 others.",
        "primary_topic": "Suruç_bombing"
      },
      {
        "year": 2012,
        "text": "A gunman carried out a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others.",
        "primary_topic": "James_Holmes_(mass_murderer)"
      },
      {
        "year": 2001,
        "text": "Twenty-three-year-old Italian anti-globalist Carlo Giuliani was shot dead by a police officer while protesting outside the 27th G8 summit held in Genoa, Italy.",
        "primary_topic": "Killing_of_Carlo_Giuliani"
      },
      {
        "year": 1997,
        "text": "USS Constitution, one of the United States Navy's original six frigates, sailed for the first time in 116 years after a full restoration.",
        "primary_topic": "USS_Constitution"
      },
      {
        "year": 1982,
        "text": "Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in London, killing eleven British Army personnel and seven horses.",
        "primary_topic": "Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army"
      },
      {
        "year": 1977,
        "text": "Rain from a stalled thunderstorm caused six dams to fail, flooding Johnstown, Pennsylvania, resulting in 84 deaths and $340 in damages.",
        "primary_topic": "Johnstown_flood_of_1977"
      },
      {
        "year": 1976,
        "text": "The Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission.",
        "primary_topic": "Viking_1"
      },
      {
        "year": 1969,
        "text": "The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Sea of Tranquillity, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later (bootprint pictured).",
        "primary_topic": "Apollo_11"
      },
      {
        "year": 1968,
        "text": "The first games of the Special Olympics (athletes pictured), for athletes with intellectual disabilities, were held at Soldier Field in Chicago.",
        "primary_topic": "1968_Special_Olympics_World_Summer_Games"
      },
      {
        "year": 1951,
        "text": "Abdullah I of Jordan was assassinated while visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.",
        "primary_topic": "Abdullah_I_of_Jordan"
      }
    ]
  },
  "source": "Wikimedia Foundation REST API (Wikipedia)",
  "license": "CC-BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Foundation)"
}

Recorded history available: /api/v1/history/wiki-on-this-day?month=07&day=20

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