---
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
configs:
- config_name: en
  data_files: day_in_history.en.parquet
language:
- en
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
tags:
- wikipedia
- history
---

# Day in History

This is a dataset prepared out of wikipedia pages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Days_of_the_year.

Historic events are mapped against each date with reference if available.

Here is a demo app using this dataset: https://huggingface.co/spaces/santhosh/day_in_history

Script used for parsing wiki pages: https://github.com/santhoshtr/day-in-history. Please use that repository for tracking issues regarding adding more languages, data cleanup etc.