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Every day of the year, Wikipedia's "On this day" — its events and its births and deaths — repeating each year, each linking to its place in history.
What's ahead: the elections, tournaments, launches and openings already scheduled, the round anniversaries of history's moments and lives, and a few milestones further out.
The 13 constellations the Sun really passes in front of — Ophiuchus too — as wide as the stars make them, each from the moment it enters.
Each week's three most popular new movies in US theaters, across their opening weekend, a year ahead — from TMDB.
Every Academy Award for Best Picture, from Wings in 1929 — each winner from its ceremony until the next, with the night's host and venue.
Every song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, from its debut in August 1958 to the present. Consecutive weeks at the top are combined into a single event.
Who was alive at the same time: history's best known leaders, religious figures, explorers, thinkers, scientists, writers, composers and painters, each from birth to death in their field's color — never more than 12 at once.
NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day: a different image of our universe every day since 1995, with a short explanation by a professional astronomer. From science.nasa.gov/apod.
Every Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane since 1851 from NOAA's best tracks, each in the color of its peak strength, with the seasons behind them.
The complete succession of Catholic popes from Saint Peter (~30 AD) to the present — over 2,000 years of unbroken apostolic history.
Every President of the United States, from George Washington to today — each term in office, from Wikidata.
Every match of every FIFA World Cup, with each edition's stages and champion.
History & People
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Every Archbishop of Canterbury since Augustine in 597, through the Reformation to Sarah Mullally, the first woman. From Wikidata.
Every Prime Minister of Australia since Federation in 1901. From Wikidata.
Every Prime Minister of Canada since Confederation in 1867. From Wikidata.
The best known composers — ranked by how many Wikipedias write about them, never more than 8 alive at once — each from birth to death, to see who was alive at the same time.
Every amendment to the US Constitution, from Congress's proposal to its ratification — the Bill of Rights side by side, the 27th across 202 years — and the six never ratified.
The emperors of Japan, the world's oldest continuous hereditary monarchy, from Jimmu to Naruhito. The first reigns, from 660 BC, are legend: their dates are tradition's, not history's. From Wikidata.
The monarchs of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom — each reign, from Wikidata.
Who was alive at the same time: history's best known leaders, religious figures, explorers, thinkers, scientists, writers, composers and painters, each from birth to death in their field's color — never more than 12 at once.
Every Chair of the Federal Reserve since the Fed began in 1914. From Wikidata.
The kings of France from Philip II, then of France and Navarre, Napoleon's and Napoleon III's empires and Louis-Philippe — each reign. From Wikidata.
Every President of France, from the Second Republic in 1848 to the Fifth. From Wikidata.
The chancellors of the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich and the Federal Republic. From Wikidata, which has them from 1894.
Sports
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Every official world record in fourteen athletics events, each from the day it was set to the day it was broken.
Every spell at world No. 1 in men's tennis since the ATP rankings began in 1973.
Every Champions League match since 2002, with each season's champion and every two-legged tie.
Every College Football game in one calendar, with scores — the whole league rather than one team.
Every national champion since 1936: the playoff's since 2014, the BCS's from 1998, and the AP poll's before that.
Every College Football Playoff game since 2014, and the BCS National Championship before it (1998–2013).
Every Copa Libertadores match since 2010, with each season's champion and every two-legged tie.
Every match of every FIFA Women's World Cup, with each edition's stages and champion.
Every match of every FIFA World Cup, with each edition's stages and champion.
Every Formula One World Championship Grand Prix since 1950, with its winner, podium and Wikipedia article.
Every Formula One World Drivers' Champion since 1950, from the day the title was clinched to the next.
Every men's golf major since the first Open Championship in 1860 — the Masters, the PGA Championship, the U.S. Open and The Open — across its rounds, with its champion.
Weather
All 129 cities ›New York City, NY: heat waves, cold snaps, snowstorms, and downpours since 1869, from NOAA's daily weather record (Ny City Cntrl Park).
The National Weather Service's 7-day forecast for New York City (Central Park), updated every few hours.
Space & Nature
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NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day: a different image of our universe every day since 1995, with a short explanation by a professional astronomer. From science.nasa.gov/apod.
Every Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane since 1851 from NOAA's best tracks, each in the color of its peak strength, with the seasons behind them.
Every earthquake of magnitude 6.5 or more since 1900 from the US Geological Survey, colored by magnitude, the great and deadly ones with their stories.
Every eastern and central Pacific tropical storm and hurricane since 1949 from NOAA's best tracks, each in the color of its peak strength, with the seasons behind them.
Every solar and lunar eclipse from 1601 to 2400, from NASA's Five Millennium Canons (Fred Espenak and Jean Meeus). Times are the moment of greatest eclipse, in UTC.
The day Kyoto's cherry trees reached full bloom, every year it was recorded since 812 — steady for a thousand years, and earlier since the 1900s.
The year's major meteor showers, from their first meteors to their last, with each peak and how much the Moon will wash it out.
New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, and Last Quarter from 2019 to 2025. Each event shows the exact face of the Moon at that moment using NASA SVS libration frames — 730×730px public domain imagery with the Moon's natural wobble (libration) baked in.
Every orbital launch since Sputnik, and what's coming up — rocket, mission, crew, pad and webcast — from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs.
The astronomical seasons, from each equinox and solstice to the next, to the minute (Northern Hemisphere; the Southern's are reversed).
The 13 constellations the Sun really passes in front of — Ophiuchus too — as wide as the stars make them, each from the moment it enters.
Music & Film
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Each week's three biggest new albums — by the artists most read about on Wikipedia — from release day through the weekend, a year ahead.
Every album that reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 (and its predecessors) since 1956 — consecutive weeks at the top as one bar.
Every song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, from its debut in August 1958 to the present. Consecutive weeks at the top are combined into a single event.
The #1 film at the US box office each week, from 1946 to the present. Consecutive weeks at #1 are combined into a single event.
Broadway's shows from opening night to closing — the longest runs, the famous ones of every season, and the longest-running show ever as the record passed from The Elephant of Siam (1831) to The Phantom of the Opera — with each season's Tony winners behind them.
Every episode of Conan O'Brien's shows since 1993 — Late Night, The Tonight Show, Conan, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend and Conan O'Brien Must Go — with each night's guests and bits, from Wikipedia's episode lists.
Every actor to play the Doctor in Doctor Who, from William Hartnell in 1963 — each from their first regular episode to their last, with the show's 1989–2005 gap and the 1996 film.
Every Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series and Comedy Series, each from its ceremony until the next.
Every Grammy for Album of the Year and Record of the Year, each from its ceremony until the next.
The actors who've played James Bond in Eon's films, each from his first film's release until the next Bond's.
Each week's three most popular new movies in US theaters, across their opening weekend, a year ahead — from TMDB.
Every Academy Award for Best Picture, from Wings in 1929 — each winner from its ceremony until the next, with the night's host and venue.
Holidays & Faith
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The Bahá'í holy days on the Badí' calendar: Naw-Rúz, Ridván, the Twin Holy Birthdays, the Declaration and Martyrdom of the Báb, Ayyám-i-Há and the Fast.
Buddhist holidays in Theravada, East Asian and Japanese reckoning: Vesak, the Buddha's birthday, Magha and Asalha Puja, the rains retreat, Ullambana, Bodhi Day and Obon.
The Roman Catholic liturgical year since the 1970 calendar: Advent, Christmas, Lent, the Triduum, Easter and Ordinary Time in their liturgical colors, with every solemnity and great feast.
The years of the Chinese zodiac, each from its Lunar New Year: the animal, the element and the year's stem and branch.
The festivals of the Chinese lunar calendar — Lunar New Year, the Lantern, Dragon Boat and Mid-Autumn festivals, Qingming — with Korea's Seollal and Chuseok and Vietnam's Tết.
The Orthodox year on the old (Julian) calendar, shown on its Gregorian dates: Pascha, the Twelve Great Feasts, Great Lent and the fasts.
The Hindu festival year on the lunisolar calendar: Diwali, Holi, Navaratri and Dussehra, Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi, Maha Shivaratri and more.
Observances the world shares, every year: Valentine's Day, April Fools' Day, Halloween, New Year's Eve and Leap Day. Each country's public holidays are on its own calendar.
The Islamic year on the Umm al-Qura calendar: Ramadan, the two Eids, the Hajj, the Hijri New Year, Ashura and the Mawlid.
The Jewish year: the High Holy Days, the pilgrimage festivals, Hanukkah and Purim, the fasts and Israel's days of remembrance — each across its days, from sundown.
The Protestant liturgical year of the Revised Common Lectionary: Advent, Christmas, the Season after Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter and the Season after Pentecost, with Reformation Day, All Saints' and Christmas Eve.
Sikh gurpurabs and festivals: Vaisakhi, Guru Nanak's and Guru Gobind Singh's birthdays, the martyrdoms of Guru Arjan and Guru Tegh Bahadur, Hola Mohalla and Bandi Chhor Divas.
Internet & Culture
See all ›Every Friday the 13th, palindrome days, the Unix clock's round numbers and the leap seconds, 1900–2100.
The most influential paintings — the ones the most Wikipedias write about — each across the years it was painted, shown as the painting itself.
Every product Google launched and shut down, from launch to shutdown — Google Reader, Google+, Stadia and ~300 more. Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).
Every Mercury retrograde, from the day the planet seems to stop and back up against the stars to the day it turns forward again.
Every book that reached No. 1 on The New York Times best seller lists since 1931 — Fiction and Nonfiction side by side, consecutive weeks as one bar.
Every Pantone Color of the Year since Cerulean in 2000, each year painted in its color.
Time magazine's Person of the Year since Charles Lindbergh in 1927 — the person, group or idea that most shaped each year, with Time's reasons and the cover.
Each week's three most-anticipated new video games — the ones most read about on Wikipedia — from release day through the weekend, a year ahead.
What the internet was thinking: English Wikipedia's most-read article each day since the end of 2015, from Wikimedia's pageview data — with bot-driven spikes left out.
The Sun's way through the twelve signs of the Western (tropical) zodiac, each from the moment it enters one.
Venues
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What happened at Camp Nou in Barcelona — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
What happened at Carnegie Hall in New York — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
What happened at Estadio Azteca in Mexico City — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
What happened at Fenway Park in Boston — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
What happened at Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
What happened at Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
What happened at Olympiastadion Berlin in Berlin — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
What happened at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
What happened at Rose Bowl in Pasadena — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
What happened at Royal Albert Hall in London — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
What happened at Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
What happened at Shea Stadium in New York — concerts, fights, finals and firsts — from its Wikipedia article.
Local
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Major entertainment events at Madison Square Garden in New York City, from 1967 to the present. Multi-night stands are combined into a single event.