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 1874, a massive swarm of Rocky Mountain locusts hit the Great Plains. It is estimated that the swarm was 1,800 miles long and 100 miles wide, and lasted for more a week. The Plains would be visited by smaller swarms for the next several summers, destroying more than $200 million in crops. Jeffrey A. Lockwood explores the history of the locust in America in Locust; it's available in print.
	On this day in 1918, Cindy Walker was born. Walker had minor success as a country singer in the mid-1940s, but is best remembered as a songwriter. For thirty years, Walker's songs became hits for singers as far ranging as Bob Wills, Dean Martin, and Ray Charles. Walker's songs include "Sugar Moon," "Distant Drums," and "I Don't Care." Her most frequently recorded song, "You Don't Know Me," is also the title of Willie Nelson's album of Walker songs; it's available for streaming at Hoopla.
	And on this day in 1933, Cormac McCarthy was born. McCarthy is one of our most critically acclaimed authors. His style is straightforward and simple, and his sentences tend to be short. Several of his novels have been adapted as films. McCarthy won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, in which a father and son make a long journey through a bleak, post-apocalyptic landscape. The Road is available as an e-book or e-audio from OverDrive, in print, or as an audiobook; the movie adaptation, starring Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee, is available on DVD.