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OnThisDay.com Revamped and Relaunched

OnThisDay.com Revamped and Relaunched to Cater for 1 Million Monthly Visitors

Tauranga based website OnThisDay.com is proud to announce its revamped and redesigned website which makes learning about history fun for children and adults alike.

Central to the new design is the use of channels to allow the site’s over 1 million visitors to filter hundreds of daily events, birthdays and deaths by music, sport or by film and television. Alternatively, the more celebrity orientated entries can be excluded and a visitor can focus just on history.

Founder and Managing Editor, James Graham says the new design has been “very well received by the thousands of people around the world who have made the site part of their daily routine”.

Mr Graham, who travelled Latin America and Asia for the last five years, living and developing the site in places like Colombia, Mexico and Borneo, has been able to add a unique perspective and set of knowledge to the site. As he says “it is a business that can be run almost anywhere” and goes hand in hand with the “passion to learn more about the world and share that knowledge in an approachable format with as many people as possible”.

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“OnThisDay.com now looks great on any device or screen and showcases the most significant events in history from our huge archive of historical events, famous birthdays and deaths”.

The site is also edited by a team of postgraduate students and graduates from the University of Auckland and an eclectic mix of international history lovers. Mr Graham says this “mix of experience, perspectives and interests gives the site an edge over similar reference sites”.

Popular with students and history lovers in New Zealand and around the world, Mr Graham hopes the new design “encourages students to gain an interest in the famous people and historical figures that have helped set and alter the course of history”.

The new design brings together the content from three sites, HistoryOrb.com, MusicOrb.com and TodayinSport.com into one integrated site.

About OnThisDay.com
OnThisDay.com is the world’s largest, most accurate site for today in history with over 206,000 historical events, famous birthdays, weddings, divorces and notable deaths. Based in Tauranga, New Zealand, OnThisDay.com receives over a million visitors a month and is ranked in the top 14,000 websites in the United States by web analytics company Alexa.

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