On This Day in History

Birthdays or other special occasions call for gifts or at least a card. If you want to do something interesting and original, you could create an "On this day" card, with the historical significance of that day, as well as other events. This is what you can do with On This Day in History. The software can help you retrieve information about historical events, from a date of your choice, and it places everything on an attractive card, which you can print. Regardless of whom will receive the card, they will surely appreciate seeing finding out about the historical significance of that date.

The application works on all modern Windows platforms, without using a significant amount of memory or processing power. The installation process is quick and simple, and there are no special requirements to meet, so you can have the software up and running in under a minute.

Writing a title and selecting a date is sufficient to create a card, but you can also pick one of three styles and choose between different events, like birthday, wedding christening or other. Once you've decided on a date, event type and card style, you can just click a button to print out a card. Of course, you can preview the card before anything else, to see what information will be printed.

It may look pretty simple on the surface, but the application has a surprisingly neat functionality. It automatically searches for events that took place on your selected date, along with other information, like living prices back then, births of famous people, as well as other events that took place on that date or in that year. If you select "Other" as the event, you will be able to add a custom description to your card.

On This Day in History makes use of various databases to provide you with the historical information you're looking for. What's more, the software lets you choose between them, so you can have details that come from English, American, Australian or other databases.

With On This Day in History, not only will you find out the historical significance of each day, but also make it feel like a special day for someone else.