Create a "This Day in History" page

I am new to Drupal. I have a website up and running Drupal 8. I want to put a link on the Primary Menu on the default Bartik theme that will open a page and display events that happened on the current day. Does anyone have an idea where I should begin? I know how to add page to Primary Menu. I am assuming that a good place to start is to create a new Content Type 'day in history' which can be displayed on page 'History' with a custom view. Am I even close in my thinking? Any feedback is appreciated.