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2019 🎨 Arts

Pakistan Air Force JF-17 Thunder downs Indian pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's Mig-21 in an aerial dogfight and captures him after conducting airstrikes in Jammu and Kashmir.

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2002 🎂 Sports

🎂 Born on this day: Johnny Davis, American basketball player

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1998 🎂 Sports

🎂 Born on this day: Todd Cantwell, English footballer

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1996 💡 Invention

The multimedia franchise Pokémon was launched with the release of the video games Pocket Monsters Red and Green.

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1996 🎂 Sports

🎂 Born on this day: Chris Godwin, American football player

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1996 🎂 Arts

🎂 Born on this day: Ten, Thai singer and dancer

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1995 🎂 Sports

🎂 Born on this day: Laura Gulbe, Latvian tennis player

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1995 🎂 Sports

🎂 Born on this day: Sergej Milinković-Savić, Serbian footballer

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1995 🎂 Sports

🎂 Born on this day: Tomáš Souček, Czech footballer

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1994 🎂 Sports

🎂 Born on this day: Mike Matheson, Canadian ice hockey player

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1993 🎂 Sports

🎂 Born on this day: Alphonse Areola, French footballer

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1992 🎂 Sports

🎂 Born on this day: Meyers Leonard, American basketball player

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1982 🎨 Arts

The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, known for its performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas, gave its final performance.

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1971 🚀 Space

Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.

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1964 ⭐ Fun Fact

The Government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.

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1940 🔬 Science

American biochemists Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discovered carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of carbon, which is now used extensively as the basis of the radiocarbon dating method to date archaeological and geological samples.

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1940 🔬 Science

Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14.

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1939 🎨 Arts

United States labor law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules in NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. that the National Labor Relations Board has no authority to force an employer to rehire workers who engage in sit-down strikes.

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1921 🎨 Arts

The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.

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1916 🌿 Nature

Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.

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1900 ⚽ Sports

FC Bayern Munich, Germany's most successful football club, was founded.

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1900 ⭐ Fun Fact

Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.

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About Fun Kid Facts

Fun Kid Facts (funkidfacts.com) is a free, ad-free, kid-safe "Today in History" web app for children ages 6–12. Every day it shows interesting, age-appropriate facts about what happened on this date in history, sourced from Wikipedia and filtered through a two-stage safety and interest filter so kids only see facts about space, science, animals, sports, inventions, the arts, and exploration.

What makes Fun Kid Facts the best daily fun facts app for kids?

Frequently asked questions

Is Fun Kid Facts free?
Yes. Fun Kid Facts is completely free, with no ads and no sign-up required.
What ages is it for?
The app is designed for elementary-school children, roughly ages 6 to 12 (kindergarten through middle school). The reading level is geared toward a 4th grader.
How does the kid-safety filter work?
Each Wikipedia fact is checked against two filters. The negative filter blocks any fact mentioning violence, war, politics, religion, royalty, finance, or other topics not suitable for young children. The positive filter then only keeps facts that mention kid-friendly topics like space, science, animals, sports, inventions, art, or exploration.
Where do the facts come from?
All facts come from Wikipedia's "On This Day" REST API. Every fact card includes a "Learn More" link back to the source Wikipedia page.
Can I see facts for a specific date or my birthday?
Yes. Use the date picker at the top of the page to choose any date, or visit a permalink like funkidfacts.com/day/4/15 for April 15.
Who built Fun Kid Facts?
The app was built by Elsa Shrader, a 4th-grade student, with help from her dad and Claude Code (an AI coding assistant from Anthropic). It runs on Google Cloud Run.

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