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 1933, Harve Presnell was born. Presnell was a singer and actor who began his career in classical music; he was performing at the Hollywood Bowl when Meredith Willson heard him and asked him to take a role in a new musical he was writing. That would be The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and it made Presnell a musical theater star for the next thirty years. He made a few movies early in his career, including the film version of Molly Brown, but he was mostly a stage actor until the last decade of his life, when a role in Fargo gave him a late-career run of successful character roles in movies. The 1960 original cast recording of The Unsinkable Molly Brown is available for streaming at Hoopla.
	On this day in 1954, Barry Cowsill was born.Cowsill, along with his brothers, sister, and mother, were part of the late 1960s pop band, The Cowsills; their biggest hits were "The Rain, the Park & Other Things" and "Indian Lake." In its largest form, The Cowsills included six siblings, aged from 6 to 19; they were the inspiration for the sitcom The Partridge Family. Several of The Cowsills' albums are available for streaming or download at Hoopla.
	And on this day in 1955, Geraldine Brooks was born. Brooks' first two books were nonfiction, a look at the lives of Muslim women in the Middle East, and a memoir about the importance of pen pals in her life. She turned to fiction with Year of Wonders, about a small English village struck by the bubonic plague in 1666; it's available as an   e-book or e-audio from OverDrive, or in print.