`onthisday`

Pack: wikimedia-rest · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/wikimedia-rest/mcp

“What happened on this day” / “events that happened on May 21” / “historical events on a date” — births, deaths, events, holidays, and selected occurrences from history for any month+day. Pass type=“all” for everything, or filter to “births” / “deaths” / “events” / “holidays” / “selected”.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`type`	string	yes	One of “all”, “births”, “deaths”, “events”, “holidays”, “selected”.
`month`	number	yes
`day`	number	yes
`project`	string	no
`lang`	string	no

Example call

Arguments

{
  "type": "births",
  "month": 3,
  "day": 14
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/wikimedia-rest/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"onthisday","arguments":{"type":"births","month":3,"day":14}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('onthisday', {
  "type": "births",
  "month": 3,
  "day": 14
});

More examples

{
  "type": "events",
  "month": 7,
  "day": 4,
  "lang": "en",
  "project": "wikipedia"
}

Response shape

Full JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "description": "On-this-day events from Wikimedia REST API"
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "wikimedia-rest": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/wikimedia-rest/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

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