Today is Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:29:38 +0100
It is day 187 and week 27 of 2008. There are 178 days left in the year
Born Today
- 1794 - Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker.
- 1810 - P.T. Barnum, circus ringmaster, and not a "Sucker"!
- 1923 - Nancy Reagan, former First Lady.
- 1927 - Janet Leigh
- 1937 - Shirley Knight
- 1951 - Huey Lewis, singer, songwriter, always in the "The News".
- 1972 - Michael Bays
Events Today
- 1811 - Venezuela gains independence from Spain.
- 1841 - Thomas Cook opens first travel agency. They were first involved in organizing trips for groups opposed to alchololic beverages.
- 1865 - William Booth founds the Salvation Army, in London, England.
- 1935 - First "Hawaii Calls" radio program is broadcast.
- 1938 - Herb Caen gets his first column in The San Francisco Chronicle.
- 1945 - The bikini, makes it's debut at a fashion show in Paris.
This is a PHP implementation of Puppet Master's original perl script (however I cannot locate his/her site despite the popularity of the script). There are some advantages in that and probably some disadvantages. The code is available to tinker with, so is the data file. If you do make improvements please contact me (I'll even set up decent versioning etc), I am particularly keen to add dates that are less eurocentric. If you do add to the data file it is structured so that the first character (B,S or R) sets a Birthdate, an Event or a Reminder. This is followed by month (always two characters), day (always two characters) and year (4 characters, optional for reminders or unknown. Three numeral years are preceded by a space and there is no support for BC). The next character is use to indicate if a reminder must fall on a certain day (this is a bit of a quick and dirty solution for the moment). Finally the string after that is the description that you want to see appear on the webpage.