The purpose of the skill is to inform the user about what happened today in history. When you enable the skill for your Alexa device and say "Alexa, ask history today to give me what happened today in history", it gives, tells, and shows you a description of what happened today in history.
The presented data are licensed using CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/), the same license used for Wikipedia data. The API provided by Today in History (http://history.muffinlabs.com/) is used in the skill.
“Alexa, ask history today to tell today in history”