Today is Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:47:09 +0000
It is day 325 and week 47 of 2008. There are 40 days left in the year
Born Today
- 1602 - Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump.
- 1900 - Chester Gould, gave Dick Tracy a job.
- 1908 - Alistair Cooke, raconteur.
- 1925 - Maya Plisetkaya
- 1925 - Robert Kennedy, politician (What else!)
- 1939 - Dick Smothers, brother.
- 1956 - Bo Derek, actress, "10".
Events Today
- 1888 - William Bundy invents the first timecard clock.
- 1914 - The State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
- 1947 - Princess Elizabeth of England and Lt. Phillip Mountbatten are married in London's Westminster Abbey.
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.