Great moments in history and popular culture happen every day, and ON THIS DAY will share a few of them with you. We’ll also point you to related resources in our collection, helping you to discover classic films, musical favorites, and historical tidbits. The primary focus will be on our e-material – e-books, e-audio, and downloadable and streamable music and film – but physical books and DVDs will also be part of the fun.

	On this day in 1786, Wilhelm Grimm was born. With his brother, Jacob, Wilhelm gathered and edited the stories that were collected as Grimm's Fairy Tales. The brothers continued to add new stories to the collection throughout their lives. The first edition in 1812 included 86 tales; by their final edition in 1857, the Grimms' collection included more than 200 stories. In later editions, the Grimms also re-wrote the stories to make them more appropriate for children, adding morals and removing some of the more violent imagery. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales is available as an e-book from OverDrive.
	On this day in 1932, Michel Legrand was born. Legrand has written more than 200 film and television scores, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Thomas Crown Affair. He is also a jazz pianist and songwriter; several of his songs have become frequently-recorded standards -- "The Windmills of Your Mind," "Watch What Happens," "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" Several of Legrand's recordings are available for streaming or download at Freegal.
	And late on this day in 1942, air raid sirens sounded throughout Los Angeles County. A blackout was ordered, and a barrage of anti-aircraft artillery was fired for about an hour. The "all clear" was sounded at about 7 the next morning. The Navy later explained that the event, which became known as "the battle of Los Angeles," had been a false alarm; forty years later, a report from the Office of Air Force History would point to runaway weather balloons as the initial cause for alarm. Speculation and conspiracy theories about the event have never entirely gone away, though, with various theories involving a secret Japanese submarine base, attempts by the US government to generate support for the war, and (inevitably) UFOs. In The Battle of Los Angeles, Terrenz Sword claims to tell what really happened; it's available in print.