Today is Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:01:04 +0000
It is day 37 and week 06 of 2012. There are 328 days left in the year
Born Today
- 1756 - Aaron Burr, duelist with Alexander Hamilton.
- 1885 - George Herman Ruth (The Babe!)
- 1911 - Ronald Reagan, 40th President from (1981 - 1988).
- 1940 - Tom Brokow, news anchor.
Events Today
- 1861 - English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues storm warnings for ships putting out to sea, creating the first "weather forecast."
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.