On This Day... an app for history buffs

If you love history, you’ll love On This Day… app. It’s a fast and beautiful app with clean metro-style. You can view historical events, holidays, births and deaths that occurred on this day in history. And it’s easy to switch to any other day of the year as well.

Start your day by pinning the app to the front screen for live tile updates with important highlights. The facts change every day, so there’s always something new.

Inside the app, you can tap to jump to any event and read its description on Wikipedia.

• View important highlights, events, births and deaths
• View holidays
• Important events show associated pictures
• Live tile periodically shows events
• Jump to any day in history
• Go directly to Wikipedia articles

The app is free and supported by advertisements at the bottom of the screen. You can grab it from the marketplace.