Reordering Wikipedia history

Many mornings I start my day by going to the Wikipedia and learning about what important things happened in this day in history — at least according to the Wikipedia community. Usually I follow at least one link to learn more about some intriguing historical event.

This morning I realized, going through today’s historical events, how it has all been diced up and scrambled to suit the format. From the perspective of history itself, the grouping into days of the year is completely arbitrary.

I am thinking I might write an app that gathers all 366 entries and puts them into proper chronological order. That would allow different kinds of exploration of what happened throughout history — at least according to the Wikipedia community.

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