Daymarker: Today in History

Every calendar day carries something. Daymarker tells you what. Open it in the morning and you get the day's story: what happened on this date, written as a piece of prose rather than a bullet point. Some days it is a battle or a treaty. Some days it is a telescope pointed somewhere new, a song recorded in one take, or a mistake that turned out to matter. Busy dates carry several stories; quiet ones carry a single good one. WRITTEN, NOT SCRAPED Every story is composed for this app. Nothing is pulled from an encyclopedia and reformatted. Where a popular account is disputed or simply a legend, the text says so instead of repeating it. THREE LANGUAGES, WRITTEN SEPARATELY English, Turkish and Spanish are not translations of one another. Each language has its own selection of days and its own writing, so a reader in Istanbul, Madrid and Chicago each gets a calendar that makes sense from…