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On This Day in History. Our Holiday API delivers more than just holidays. The On This Day service (OTD) will tell you which political, historical, or cultural events happened on a certain day, and which famous people were born or died.. Whether you are building a calendar or need to inform about important dates — by using our OTD service, you can improve your user experience with context-rich historical information.
Supported Templates: In addition to retrieving these text templates via our API, you can also try out and download this data from our Data Download page.. ics. To use this template, specify this parameter combination: out=text&template=ics. This template is used to retrieve the stream of calendar events in iCalendar [] compliant format.By default, the description will include a link to further reading about the holiday.
Global retailers, tech giants, and airlines—they all use our holiday database. These global organizations trust Time and Date, because we research holidays around the world using primary sources such as government records, laws, and regulations.