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 1874, Charles Ives was born. Ives' music was radically experimental for its time, featuring early uses of polytonality, chance elements, tone clusters, and other techniques that wouldn't be common for a half century. Perhaps as a result, much of Ives' music was not performed during his lifetime, and he was arguably more famous within the insurance industry, which is how he supported himself, than within the world of classical music. But his music has become more frequently played in recent decades, and he is recognized as one of the great American composers. Several recordings of Ives' music are available for streaming or download at Freegal.
	On this day in 1882, Bela Lugosi was born. Lugosi first played the role of Count Dracula in a 1927 Broadway adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, and became synonymous with the character in the 1931 film version. Lugosi became a staple of 1930s horror films; he was frustrated by the typecasting, but his Hungarian accent made it difficult for producers to accept him in other roles. By the 1940s, Lugosi's career was in sharp decline due to addiction to opiates which had been prescribed for his chronic sciatica; he died in relative obscurity and near poverty. He stars with fellow horror icon Boris Karloff in Son of Frankenstein, which is available for streaming at Hoopla.
	And on this day in 1937, Wanda Jackson was born. Jackson was a pioneering female rock 'n' roll star in the late 1950s, and became known as the "Queen of Rockabilly." By the mid-1960s, as rockabilly went out of fashion, Jackson shifted to country, and had great success in that genre for a decade. At the age of 74, she became the oldest female singer to place an album on the Billboard charts with her 2011 album The Party Ain't Over. That album, along with several others from Jackson's long career, is available for streaming at Hoopla.