Welcome to ON THIS DAY! Each day, we'll look at a few moments from history and popular culture. We'll show you where you can rediscover classic movies and music, or read more about great moments in history. We'll point you to e-books, downloadable and streamable music and film, and e-audio; and of course, we haven't forgotten about physical books or DVDs.

	On this day in 1914, Lester Flatt was born. Flatt was a guitarist and mandolin player; along with his musical partner, Earl Scruggs, he led The Foggy Mountain Boys, a major bluegrass band for twenty years beginning in the late 1940s. Flatt and Scruggs had their biggest mainstream success with "The Ballad of Jed Clampett," the theme song from the 60s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. Several albums by Flatt and Scruggs are available fro streaming or download at Freegal.
	On this day in 1919, Pauline Kael was born. Kael was a movie critic whose earliest reviews appeared on a Berkeley radio station in the late 1950s. Her frequently combative style gained her a loyal following, and in 1968, she joined The New Yorker, where she would review movies until her retirement in 1991. Kael was not interested in critical consensus, and sometimes seemed to take pleasure in panning a much-praised film, or in defending one that most critics disliked. She was among the rare critics whose reviews were popular enough to be collected in book form. Brian Kellow's Pauline Kael is a biography, looking at her rise to the top of her profession and her continuing influence on film criticism; it's available as an e-book from OverDrive, or in print.
	And on this day in 1978, the comic strip Garfield made its debut in 41 newspapers. At its peak, the strip ran in more than 2,500 newspapers, and held the Guinness World Record as the most widely syndicated comic strip. Garfield, Jon, and Odie have been adapted for movies, television, video games, and even a stage musical. Several volumes of the Garfield comic book are available at Hoopla.