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 1819, Walt Whitman was born. Whitman was one of America's greatest poets, and has been enormously influential on later generations of writers. His influence can also be felt in music; numerous composers have written musical settings of Whitman poems, including Leonard Bernstein, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, and John Adams. In his time, the frank sexuality of Whitman's poetry was controversial; some even considered it obscene. Whitman's Selected Poems are available as an e-book from OverDrive or in print.
	On this day in 1912, Alfred Deller was born. Deller was a British countertenor, and his unusually high voice was well suited to early music. He was among the early advocates for historically informed performance -- that is, the idea that performers of music from earlier centuries should attempt to make it sound as it would have sounded when written, rather than play it according to modern tastes, or on modern instruments. Deller sings a program of English folksongs on Three Ravens, which is available for streaming at Hoopla.
	And on this day in 2005, Mark Felt revealed that he was "Deep Throat," the source who provided information about the Watergate scandal to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Felt retired from his position as Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1973, during the Watergate scandal, and believed that he had been passed over for the Director's job because President Nixon suspected (correctly) that he was leaking information to the press. In the thirty years after the scandal, Felt was one of the names most often suggested as the possible Deep Throat, but no one could ever find definitive proof. Felt's memoir, A G-Man's Life, is available as an e-audio from OverDrive, or in print.