var event = new Array()
	var timestamp = new Array()
    	var i = 0
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0102"
	event[i] = "1947 all British silver coins were replaced by cupro-nickel ones"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0103"
	event[i] = "1947 Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce) was hanged for treason"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0107"
	event[i] = "1927 the Harlem Globetrotters was founded in Illinois"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0107"
	event[i] = "1799 Income Tax was introduced in England as a temporary measure"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0111"
	event[i] = "1969 Richard Crompton (author of the 'William; books) died"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0113"
	event[i] = "1929 Wyatt Earp died"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0116"
	event[i] = "Ivan the Terrible, first Russian Tsar was crowned"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0125"
	event[i] = "1759 Robert Burns was born"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0127"
	event[i] = "1973 The Vietnam ceasefire was signed"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0130"
	event[i] = "1649 King Charles I was executed"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0204"
	event[i] = "1927 Malcolm Campbell set a new land speed record"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0208"
	event[i] = "1983 Shergar was stolen from his stable"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0209"
	event[i] = "1540 Britain's first recorded horse race was held at Chester"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0211"
	event[i] = "1975 Margaret Thatcher became the first woman leader of a British political party"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0213"
	event[i] = "1917 Britain passed a law allowing women to be taxi drivers"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0219"
	event[i] = "1906 William S Kellogg began producing his breakfast cereal"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0226"
	event[i] = "1952 Britain formally announced it had the atomic bomb"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0308"
	event[i] = "1910 First British pilots licence was issued"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0313"
	event[i] = "1781 William Herschel discovered Uranus"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0318"
	event[i] = "1834 the Tolpuddle Martyrs were sentenced to transportation"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0324"
	event[i] = "1877 Oxford and Cambridge boat race ended in a dead heat"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0326"
	event[i] = "1924 the BBC began its daily weather broadcasts"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0331"
	event[i] = "1896 the Zip was patented by Whitcomb L. Judson"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0407"
	event[i] = "1739 Dick Turpin was hanged in York"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0414"
	event[i] = "1865 Abraham Licoln was shot"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0419"
	event[i] = "1695 First lonely hearts advert appeared in an English publication"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0506"
	event[i] = "1954 Roger Bannister ran the four minute mile"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0514"
	event[i] = "1919 Henry Heinz died"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0515"
	event[i] = "1935 the first ever quiz show was broadcast in Canada"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0518"
	event[i] = "1765 Britain declared war on France"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0527"
	event[i] = "1937 the Golden Gate Bridge was opened"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0529"
	event[i] = "1879 Britain had its first Bank Holiday"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0605"
	event[i] = "1930 the British Government rejected plans for a Channel Tunnel"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0614"
	event[i] = "1961 the push button pedestrian crossing was introduced in Britain"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0621"
	event[i] = "1788 The American Constitution came into force"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0710"
	event[i] = "1962 the Telstar satellite was launched"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0716"
	event[i] = "1945 the first atomic bomb was detonated at Los Alamos"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0717"
	event[i] = "1790 the sewing machine was patented"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0721"
	event[i] = "1969 Neil Armstrong stepped foot upon the moon"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0723"
	event[i] = "1888 the pneumatic tyre was patented by John Boyd Dunlop"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0728"
	event[i] = "1586 Potatoes introduced into England"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0803"
	event[i] = "1610 Henry Hudson discovered Hudson's Bay"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0810"
	event[i] = "1895 Henry Wood gave the first Proms concert"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0818"
	event[i] = "1587 Virginia Dare, the first child of English settlers in America was born"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0821"
	event[i] = "1959 Hawaii became the 50th of the United States"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0822"
	event[i] = "1932 the BBC began its first regular TV service"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0902"
	event[i] = "1666 the Great Fire of London began in Pudding Lane"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0906"
	event[i] = "1666 the Great Fire of London was finally put out"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0916"
	event[i] = "1620 the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0919"
	event[i] = "1876 the carpet sweeper was patented by Melville Bissell"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0921"
	event[i] = "1915 someone bought Stonehenge at an auction for £6000"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "0930"
	event[i] = "1928 the discovery of penicillin was announced"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1001"
	event[i] = "1901 the Royal Navy launched their first submarine"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1004"
	event[i] = "1958 the first regular transatlantic passenger service began"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1013"
	event[i] = "1888 Greenwich was adopted as the global meridian"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1020"
	event[i] = "1818 the 49th Parallel was defined as the border between Canada and the USA"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1029"
	event[i] = "1618 Sir Walter Raleigh was executed for treason"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1106"
	event[i] = "1942 the Church of England ended its ruling that women must wear a hat in church"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1107"
	event[i] = "1885 The Canadian Pacific railroad was completed"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1113"
	event[i] = "1940 Walt Disney's 'Fantasia' opened in New York"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1118"
	event[i] = "1477 William Caxtons first dated book was published"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1202"
	event[i] = "1901 King Camp Gillette marketed the worlds first safety razor"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1212"
	event[i] = "1955 the hovercraft was patented by Christopher Cockerell"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1216"
	event[i] = "1773 the Boston Tea Party took place"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1222"
	event[i] = "1716 the first pantomine in England was staged at the Lincoln's Inn Theatre"
	i++
	timestamp[i] = "1223"
	event[i] = "1834 Joseph Hansom patented his taxi cab"

	month = ( month<10 ? "0"+month : month )
	date = ( date<10 ? "0"+date : date )
	var today = month + "" + date
	for (dayindex=1;dayindex<=i;dayindex++)
	{
		if (today == timestamp[dayindex] )
		{
		document.write("<p> On this day in ",event[dayindex])
		break;
		}
	}
	document.write("<p>")