Notable historical events for a calendar day

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/wikitrends-api/v1/onthisday" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/wikitrends-api/v1/onthisday", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/wikitrends-api/v1/onthisday");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/wikitrends-api/v1/onthisday",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "day": "10",
        "lang": "en",
        "type": "events",
        "count": 20,
        "month": "06",
        "events": [
            {
                "text": "Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria.",
                "year": 2025,
                "pages": [
                    "2025 Graz school shooting",
                    "Secondary school",
                    "Graz"
                ]
            },
            {
                "text": "A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the country's Vice President Saulos Chilima.",
                "year": 2024,
                "pages": [
                    "2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash",
                    "Malawi",
                    "Saulos Chilima"
                ]
            },
            {
                "text": "The Opportunity rover sends its last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019.",
                "year": 2018,
                "pages": [
                    "Opportunity (rover)",
                    "Earth"
                ]
            },
            {
                "text": "Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended.",
                "year": 2009,
                "pages": [
                    "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum",
                    "United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting"
                ]
            },
            {
                "text": "Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people.",
                "year": 2008,
                "pages": [
                    "Sudan Airways Flight 109",
                    "Khartoum International Airport"
                ]
            },
            {
                "text": "The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.",
                "year": 2003,
                "pages": [
                    "Spirit (rover)",
                    "NASA",
                    "Mars Exploration Rover"
                ]
            },
            {
                "text": "The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.",
                "year": 2002,
                "pages": [
                    "Kevin Warwick"
                ]
            },
            {
                "text": "Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.",
                "year": 2001,
                "pages": [
                    "Pope John Paul II",
                    "Lebanon",
                    "Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès"
          
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