This Day in History

This extension shows a quick 'This day in history' fact.
What is This Day in History?
This Day in History is a Chrome extension that provides a daily historical fact for every day of the year. With over 6200 facts, you can discover fascinating events, births, deaths, laws, and more. Engage in interesting conversations and broaden your knowledge with this lightweight and non-intrusive extension.

Extension stats

By: alexbudy
Users: 259 ▲ 9
Rating: 5.00 (3)
Version: 2.0 (Last updated: 2024-06-04)
Creation date: 2016-01-24
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Overrides new tab: Yes
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • storage
Size: 248.83K

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Extension summary

Full project description here: http://alexbudilovsky.com/projects/tdih/this_day_in_hist.html

See different 'This Day in History' facts for every day of the year with a click of your mouse in the chrome browser - over 6200 historical facts in total. Facts include famous births and deaths, important historical events in the course of history, triumphant sporting occurrences, breakthrough discoveries, revolutionary laws being passed and overturned, and many more. Have an interesting and engaging conversation starter wherever you are, every single day! Every time you open a new tab, the default new tab will show you a new fact - no need to click the extension in the upper right corner.

This lightweight extension is very non-intrusive - it sits as an icon in the top right corner of your browser and shows a new fact with a click of the mouse. You can also scroll forward and back in day, as well as scroll through all the same facts for the same day.

For the more tech-savy, I have ensured that all users get the same facts shown, in the same same randomly shuffled order, using the current day as the seed for shuffling. Refer to code for details.

Know what happened today, give this extension a try!

I am interested in all feedback, positive and negative. Contact: Email: alexbudy [at] gmail.com Twitter: @AlexBudilovsky Website: alexbudilovsky.com GitHub: https://github.com/alexbudy/day_in_history_extension/

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User reviews

It's great but all the American baseball trivia are a bit unnecessary and irrelevant for most people imo
by Alessia S, 2023-07-20
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Extension safety

Risk impact

This Day in History requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

This Day in History is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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