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English (United States)
Description
Learn history from the live tile with On This Day... a fast and beautiful metro app to view historical events, holidays and birth dates. Pin the live tile to your start screen to see the important events that happened on this day. Choose today or any other day to view. Tap any entry in the app to jump to wikipedia page or hold to get a pop-up menu! Tap any header with a date to filter events by centuries and decades. VERSION 2.9.2 - Transparent live tile VERSION 2.9.1 - Performance improvements - Bug fixes VERSION 2.9: - Implement sharing from Wikipedia page - Important fix for settings getting reset VERSION 2.8 - Orientation lock option - Remove ads on details page - Share via clipboard REVIEWS ★★★★★ Really fun if your into learning small facts ★★★★★ Awesome. Works well and true to the metro design. ★★★★★ A lot of fun to explore all of the cool things that happened on today's date. I've lost some time to this app! FEATURES - View important highlights, events, births and deaths - View holidays - Jump to any day in history - Go directly to wikipedia articles - Context menus to get more information - Metro-style attractive UI with fluid animations - Offline cache (you can view the events offline after you've seen them once!) - Portait or landscape orientation
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by John
Good daily quick reference and does what it's supposed to do. No problem with app and easy to use. Neat to read what happened years ago.
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by J
Good amount of information with live rolling on windows phone. Better than most aps out there!
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by Henry
Accesible wikipedia links make this app a one-stop shop for historical dates and their context.
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by Jennifer
Live the tid-bits of history!!
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by User
I use this as a bellringer in my 7th grade RLA classes. I've also recommended it to other teachers.
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by Larry
This APP is an extraordinarily rare treat that gives one information for every day of the calendar year. It includes seemingly every known person, world event, world holiday's world customs, and much, much more. This APP stays current so one is able to attain as much information as they desire for that day of the year. Yet even with the plethora of information that is given for each day, with a touch of your finger, you can go as far as written records will allow you to. An astounding representation of what obviously was a gargantuan almost inconceivable effort to garner an endless amount of detailed information. Thank you!
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by the
Love it! Make a more condensed live tile though, similar to weather. Plus, I made the tile large and still no pics=wasted space. Use that space to make me rate this 5 stars!!!!
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by Mike
Great app! My daily lunch time read...excellent content and variety!