# What Happened Today

> Explore the major events, famous birthdays and notable deaths that happened on this day in history. Every day of the year, in English and Chinese. 历史上的今天：全年每一天的历史大事、名人生日与逝世记录，中英双语，纯静态站点。

Canonical site: https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org

## Pages

### Home
- [Home (English)](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/): landing page with today's events, calendar, random travel and birthday lookup.
- [首页（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/): landing page with today's events, calendar, random travel and birthday lookup.

### Date pages (366 days x 2 languages)
- Pattern: `/{lang}/{month-name}-{day}/` e.g. https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/october-30/ · https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/october-30/
- Each date page has three sections: major events, famous birthdays, notable deaths; plus FAQ and calendar navigation.

### Month pages
- [January](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/january/) · [January（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/january/)
- [February](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/february/) · [February（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/february/)
- [March](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/march/) · [March（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/march/)
- [April](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/april/) · [April（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/april/)
- [May](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/may/) · [May（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/may/)
- [June](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/june/) · [June（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/june/)
- [July](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/july/) · [July（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/july/)
- [August](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/august/) · [August（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/august/)
- [September](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/september/) · [September（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/september/)
- [October](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/october/) · [October（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/october/)
- [November](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/november/) · [November（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/november/)
- [December](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/month/december/) · [December（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/month/december/)

### Category pages
- [science](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/category/science/) · [science（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/category/science/)
- [war](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/category/war/) · [war（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/category/war/)
- [politics](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/category/politics/) · [politics（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/category/politics/)
- [sports](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/category/sports/) · [sports（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/category/sports/)
- [arts](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/category/arts/) · [arts（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/category/arts/)
- [misc](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/category/misc/) · [misc（中文）](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/category/misc/)

### Other
- [Years index](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/years/) · [年份索引](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/zh/years/) — every year page from the data range.
- [Contact](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/contact/) · [Privacy](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/privacy/) · [Terms](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/terms/)
- Full content dump: [llms-full.txt](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/llms-full.txt)
- Sitemap: [sitemap.xml](https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/sitemap.xml)

## Data
- Event data is sourced from Wikipedia / Wikidata "on this day" feeds, frozen at build time (no runtime API calls).
- Date page example: https://whathappenedtoday.kiveo.org/en/october-30/ has events, births and deaths for October 30.