Questions and sources
That Day is for activity directors and life enrichment coordinators in assisted living, memory care and nursing homes who run a birthday party every month and want each card to be about the resident, not just the date.
Questions
Where does the weather come from?
From a reanalysis of historical weather records (ERA5, via Open-Meteo) for the exact town, hour by hour back to 1940. We label it as a reconstruction, not a station reading.
What if a resident was born before 1940?
The page still has the day's news, the #1 song where charts exist, the moon, sunrise and sunset, and prices. The weather part says records for that place start in 1940.
Do we have to upload medical or personal records?
No. A first name (or a nickname), a birth date and a hometown are enough. Never upload health information.
Can families see the pages?
Yes. Each page has a private link you can share with the family, and a poster PDF to print.
How many residents can we load?
Up to 150 residents per community on the $29 plan.
Can I cancel?
Yes, any time from your account. Your 7-day trial is free, and we don't ask for a card during it.
When do the pages arrive?
On the 20th of each month we build next month's pages, a letter-size poster for each resident in one PDF, and the party slideshow, and email you the links. On each resident's day you also get a short morning email at 6 AM in your time zone.
What about residents who move in mid-month?
Add them any time. If their birthday or anniversary falls in a month that is already built, their page is added to that month within the hour.
What's on each page
- Hometown weather, hour by hourThe temperature from midnight to 11 PM, the high and low, rain or snow, and the wind, for that town on that day.
- Sunrise, sunset and the moonWorked out for the town's place on the map, in its own time zone.
- The #1 song that weekFrom Billboard's weekly charts, from 1940 on.
- The news of that exact dayUp to three events of that date in that year, not "this day in any year".
- What things costA first-class stamp and the federal minimum wage on that day.
- A short story of the dayAbout 110 words and three conversation starters for the party, written by Claude from the facts above only. It never adds a fact; if it can't run, the page shows without it.
Where every fact comes from
Each page lists its sources at the bottom. We fetch each source once, keep it, and identify ourselves when we ask.
- Weather: Open-Meteo historical weather API (ERA5 reanalysis from the Copernicus Climate Change Service), under CC BY 4.0.
- Hometowns: Open-Meteo's geocoding, from GeoNames.
- News of the day: Wikipedia's month pages, such as June 1941, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #1 songs: Wikipedia's lists of Billboard number ones, such as 1976. Song titles and artists only, never lyrics or audio.
- Prices: Wikipedia's History of United States postage rates and Minimum wage in the United States.
The party slideshow
Each month's bundle includes a slideshow for the common-room TV: a slide for each resident with their name, the weather in their hometown that day, the #1 song and a headline, plus the party questions. It is a single file that runs in any browser, with no account or internet needed once it's saved. It moves on by itself every 15 seconds, or with the arrow keys.
Privacy
We ask for first names or nicknames, birth dates, hometowns, and wedding dates and places if you know them. Nothing else, and never health information. Family links are private: only someone with the link can open a page, and search engines are told not to list them. Deleting your account deletes your residents and their pages. Read the privacy policy.
Try it on one day
Type any date since 1940 and a town, and see that day's weather hour by hour: what was the weather on the day you were born? Then start your free week for the full page.