In the mood for a good movie? Some toe-tapping music? A thrilling book? ON THIS DAY will lead you to new possibilities every day, tied to interesting moments from history and popular culture. Whether it’s streamable and downloadable music and film, e-books and e-audio, or physical books and DVDs, we hope you’ll find something to enjoy as you pick up a few bits of history each day.

	On this day in 1917, Anthony Burgess was born. Burgess wrote screenplays, literary criticism, and more than 30 novels. He was also a skilled linguist who wrote translations of English literature into both Malay and Persian, which he learned while working overseas for the British Foreign Service; and a reasonably skilled composer, whose work includes an opera, a piano concerto, and three symphonies. He is likely to be best remembered, though, for A Clockwork Orange, his dark satire about a near-future government attempting to rehabilitate a violent teenager. It's available as an e-book or e-audio from OverDrive, in print, or an an audiobook; Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation is available on DVD.
	On this day in 1918, Bobby Riggs was born. Riggs was one of the world's best tennis players in the late 1940s; he was relatively small and not a particularly powerful player, but made up for those deficiencies with superb speed and ball control. More than 25 years after retiring as a player, Riggs -- always a skillful self-promoter -- challenged Billie Jean King in 1973 to a match that became known as the "Battle of the Sexes," a 1973 match against Billie Jean King. The match drew an estimated 50 million television viewers, and King, in the prime of her career, won handily. In A Necessary Spectacle, Selena Roberts tells the story of the Riggs-King match; it's available in print.
	And on this day in 1932, Faron Young was born. From the mid-1950s until the early 1980s, Young was a popular country singer, with a versatile style that ranged from rockabilly ("Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young") to smooth country-pop ballads ("Four Walls," his biggest crossover pop success. Freegal offers several of Young's albums for streaming or download.