Encyclopedia Brittannica: On This Day - 2005 Desk Calendar

For generations, Encyclopedia Britannica has been the world's premier source of reliable information on people and events. In its 200 years of publishing, the Encyclopedia has amassed a treasure trove of history and personalities, in many cases capturing them as they happened.

Here, for the first time assembled into a day-by-day calendar format, are the movers, shakers and greatest happenings throughout the ages.

Every day features an event that shifted the course of our world or the birth date of someone whose contribution made all the difference, such as the Wright brothers' first sustained flight at Kitty Hawk on Dec. 17, 1903, or the birth of the Italian physicist who invented the first electric battery, Alessandro Giuseppe Volta, on Feb. 18, 1745.

Full of fascinating information, much of it little-known, this is the perfect calendar for history and trivia buffs alike.