Born Today
Quotations, birth and death dates, pictures, links to biographical info. Cross-indexed by date, searchable. A "non-profit labor of love" by Steve Miller.

Catholic Hierarchy Guide
Search or browse current and historical figures in the Catholic Church. You can search by diocese or name or country. Also lists important Catholic religious events of the day.

Date and Time Gateway
International time readings.

Events for today
Where is today on the Jewish calendar? What happened on this day in history?

Infoplease This Day in History
Important events on today's date. Also an almanac to look up other dates.

Information Please Almanac
An online dictionary, almanac and encycolpedia. Includes today in history.

Journalist's Calendar of International Events
A long-view calendar of national elections and such, from New York University. Also links at the bottom of the page to other calendars of international conferences and events.

Links to time and calendar services
Links to services that give time in all time zones, as well as perpetual calendars. Also discussions of leap seconds and other ephemera.

Living Almanac of Disasters
Fires, earthquakes, crashes through history. Odd...

Local Time Zones Around the World
Countries listed with time zones

Moron's Almanac
Almost as reliable as the Farmer's Almanac, but without all that crap about farming.

Official U.S. Time
Gives the official time for U.S. time zones. From the atomic clocks of the National Institute of Standards and the U.S. Naval Observatory. The agencies claim that Web users can expect readings that are accurate to much better than one second.

Old Farmer's Almanac
Includes today in history.

Perpetual Calendar
Just plug in the year for a calendar of that year.

This Day in History links
Sites with events from this date. From Yahoo.

Time around the World
With maps. View the entire globe in one map with time zones. Or, at the bottom of the page, look up a country or display a regional map of time zones. Not intended to provide atomic-clock accuracy, but to show the relative time by zone. Compiled by Alexander Krivenyshev, oceanographer.

What Time Is It?
The U.S. Naval Observatory master clock.

Yahoo Calendar
Yahoo! Calendar lets you set up alerts for recurring events, with the advantage of having a calendar of events that several people can edit, and many can see, on the Web. Free registration with Yahoo is required.