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, e-audio, and magazines; and of course, we haven't forgotten about physical books or DVDs.

	On this day in 1820, the HMS Beagle was launched. The Beagle would later be the ship on which Charles Darwin made his scientific surveys. Darwin wrote about his second such trip in The Voyage of the Beagle, which you can read in print or as an e-book from OverDrive.
	On this day in 1888, songwriter Irving Berlin was born. "White Christmas," "God Bless America," "There's No Business Like Show Business" -- the list of standards composed by Berlin goes on and on. Hoopla offers Berlin collections for streaming by artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Patti LuPone, and Pat Boone.
	And on this day in 1895, composer and conductor William Grant Still was born. He conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic in performances of his music at a Hollywood Bowl concert in 1936, making him the first African-American to direct a major American orchestra. His Afro-American Symphony is available for streaming and download at Freegal.