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Is there an API which can be used to get data about what happened On this day in history .
Like the wikipedia home page shows On this day these events happened in history and these are the birthdays today ?
Wikipedia produces this data based on the extensive data and tagging of articles etc in its DB. Your best bet is probably going to be to scrape a wiki page that shows this.
Note: Don’t fall foul of copyrights etc ! – There I said it. Can’t get sued now!
Update 2021:
As mentioned by @sagun-raj-lage, it looks like there is now an API you can use officially, with an endpoint for onthisday: see https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#/Feed/onThisDay