Date.prototype.getDOY = function()
{var onejan = new Date(this.getFullYear(),0,1);
return Math.ceil((this - onejan) / 86400000);} 


var today = new Date();
var DOY = today.getDate(); 
if (DOY<10) DOY="0"+DOY; 
var MON = today.getMonth()+1;
var TOT = [MON]+[DOY];





var HL=new Array();

//jan

HL[101]=':'
HL[102]='<br>Ernest Lawrence invented the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics.'
HL[103]=':'
HL[104]='<br>German pilot Elly Beinhorn began her flight to Africa.'
HL[105]='<br>Veteran actor and director Robert Duvall was born.'
HL[106]='<br>Thomas Edison submitted his last patent application.'
HL[107]=':'
HL[108]='<br>Philadelphia Quakers set then NHL record of 15 straight loses.'
HL[109]=':'
HL[110]='<br>Philadelphia Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak.'
HL[111]=':'
HL[112]=':'
HL[113]='<br>TV & Movie legend Charles Nelson Reilly was born.'
HL[114]=':'
HL[115]=':'
HL[116]=':'
HL[117]='<br>Movie star and voice actor James Earl Jones was born.'
HL[118]=':'
HL[119]=':'
HL[120]=':'
HL[121]=':'
HL[122]='<br>VARA began experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam .'
HL[123]=':'
HL[124]='<br>John Hollis - Empire Strikes Back\'\s Lobot was born.'
HL[125]='<br>Mohandas Gandhi was released again in India.'
HL[126]='<br>Hungary-Austria signed peace treaty.'
HL[127]='<br>Pierre Laval formed a government in France.'
HL[128]=':'
HL[129]=':'
HL[130]='<br>Charlie Chaplin\'\s "City Lights" premiered.'
HL[131]='<br>Flip the Frog\'\s "<a href="http://www.thegreat1930s.com/ubiwerks/flip_toons/soup_song.html" target="_blank">Soup Song</a>" premiered.'



//feb

HL[201]=':'
HL[202]='<br>The 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail was accomplised in Austria.'
HL[203]='<br>Hawke\'\s Bay earthquake: Much of the New Zealand city of Napier is destroyed in an earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale.'
HL[204]=':'
HL[205]='<br>Maxine Dunlap became 1st U.S. women to earn a glider pilot license.'
HL[206]='<br>Rip Torn was born Elmore Rual Torn, Jr.'
HL[207]=':'
HL[208]='<br>Screen actor James Dean was born.'
HL[209]=':'
HL[210]='<br>New Delhi became the capital of India.'
HL[211]=':'
HL[212]=':'
HL[213]=':'
HL[214]='<br>Bela Lugosi\'\s "Dracula" premiered.'
HL[215]=':'
HL[216]=':'
HL[217]='<br>was the 1st telecast of a sporting event (baseball) in Japan.'
HL[218]='<br>American cartoonist Johnny Hart, creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id was born.'
HL[219]=':'
HL[220]='<br>California received the go-ahead by the U.S. Congress to build the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge.'
HL[221]='<br>Alka Seltzer was introduced.'
HL[222]=':'
HL[223]=':'
HL[224]=':'
HL[225]=':'
HL[226]=':'
HL[227]=':'
HL[228]='<br>TV\'\s Gavin MacLeod was born.'
HL[229]=':'


//mar

HL[301]=':'
HL[302]='<br>Former leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev and author Tom Wolfe were born.'
HL[303]='<br>The Star-Spangled Banner was made the national anthem by a congressional resolution and Cab Calloway records "Minnie the Moocher" (Jazz\'\s 1st million seller).'
HL[304]='<br>The British viceroy of India and Mohandas Gandhi negotiate.'
HL[305]='<br>Mohandas Gandhi and British viceroy of India Lord Irwin sign pact.'
HL[306]=':'
HL[307]=':'
HL[308]=':'
HL[309]=':'
HL[310]='<br>British Labour party removes fascist Sir Oswald Mosley.'
HL[311]='<br>Media moguel Rupert Murdoch, was born.'
HL[312]=':'
HL[313]=':'
HL[314]='<br>Flip the Frog\'\s "<a href="http://www.thegreat1930s.com/ubiwerks/flip_toons/laughing_gas.html" target="_blank">Laughing Gas</a>" premiered to-day.'
HL[315]=':'
HL[316]=':'
HL[317]='<br>Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee.'
HL[318]='<br>1st electric shavers go on sale in U.S. from Schick.'
HL[319]='<br>Nevada legalizes gambling.'
HL[320]='<br>TV\'\s Barney Miller, Hal Linden, was born.'
HL[321]=':'
HL[322]='<br>The great TV & screen star William Shatner was born.'
HL[323]=':'
HL[324]=':'
HL[325]=':'
HL[326]='<br>Star Trek\'\s Mr. Spock - Leonard Nimoy was born (exactly 4 days after William Shatner).'
HL[327]='<br>British writer Arnold Bennett dies of typhoid in London shortly after returning from a visit to Paris, where he drank local water to prove it was safe.'
HL[328]=':'
HL[329]='<br>Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Gubarev was born.'
HL[330]=':'
HL[331]='<br>An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000 people.'

//april

HL[401]='<br>Jackie Mitchell premiered as the first female pitchers in professional baseball history.'
HL[402]='<br>Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee.'
HL[403]=':'
HL[404]=':'
HL[405]=':'
HL[406]='<br>1st broadcast of "Little Orphan Annie" on NBC-radio.'
HL[407]=':'
HL[408]=':'
HL[409]='<br>Argentinian anarchist Severino Digiovanni is executed.'
HL[410]=':'
HL[411]=':'
HL[412]='<br>Spanish voters reject the monarchy.'
HL[413]=':'
HL[414]=':'
HL[415]='<br>The 1st walk across America backwards began.'
HL[416]=':'
HL[417]='<br>Allstate Insurance Corporation was founded.'
HL[418]=':'
HL[419]=':'
HL[420]='<br>British House of Commons agrees to allow sports play on Sunday.'
HL[421]=':'
HL[422]='<br>Egypt and Iraq sign a peace treaty.'
HL[423]='<br>James Cagney & Jean Harlow\'\s "The Public Enemy" premiered.'
HL[424]=':'
HL[425]=':'
HL[426]='<br>Lou Gehrig hits a home run but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he and Babe Ruth tie for season.'
HL[427]=':'
HL[428]=':'
HL[429]=':'
HL[430]=':'
HL[431]=':'

//may

HL[501]='<br>The Empire State Building officially opened. It was the tallest building in the world until 1971.'
HL[502]='<br>Flip the Frog\'\s "<a href="http://www.thegreat1930s.com/ubiwerks/flip_toons/ragtime_romeo.html" target="_blank">Ragtime Romeo</a>" premiered.'
HL[503]=':'
HL[504]=':'
HL[505]=':'
HL[506]='<br>Baseball great Willie Mays was born.'
HL[507]=':'
HL[508]=':'
HL[509]=':'
HL[510]='<br>Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington, New Jersey.'
HL[511]='<br>"<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022100/" target="_blank">M</a>" starring <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000048/" target="_blank">Peter Lorre</a> premiered in Berlin, Germany.'
HL[512]=':'
HL[513]='<br>The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones" target="_blank">Reverend Jim Jones</a> was born.'
HL[514]=':'
HL[515]=':'
HL[516]=':'
HL[517]=':'
HL[518]='<br>Mad Magazine cartoonist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Martin_%28cartoonist%29" target="_blank">Don Martin</a> was born.'
HL[519]=':'
HL[520]=':'
HL[521]=':'
HL[522]='<br>Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida.'
HL[523]=':'
HL[524]='<br>1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad.'
HL[525]=':'
HL[526]=':'
HL[527]='<br>Piccard and Knipfer make 1st flight into the stratosphere, by balloon.'
HL[528]=':'
HL[529]=':'
HL[530]=':'
HL[531]=':'

//June

HL[601]=':'
HL[602]=':'
HL[603]=':'
HL[604]=':'
HL[605]=':'
HL[606]=':'
HL[607]=':'
HL[608]=':'
HL[609]='<br>Comedian Jackie Mason was born.'
HL[610]=':'
HL[611]=':'
HL[612]='<br>Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury.'
HL[613]=':'
HL[614]='<br>Marla Gibbs of The Jeffersons TV show was born.'
HL[615]=':'
HL[616]=':'
HL[617]=':'
HL[618]=':'
HL[619]='<br>President Herbert Hoover issues the Hoover Moratorium in an attempt to stop the banking crisis in Central Europe.'
HL[620]='<br>Actress Olympia Dukakis was born.'
HL[621]=':'
HL[622]=':'
HL[623]='<br>Wiley Post and Harold Catty took off for flight around world.'
HL[624]='<br>Lili de Alvarez shocks social propriety by playing at Wimbledon in shorts instead of the usual longish, hampering dress.'
HL[625]=':'
HL[626]=':'
HL[627]=':'
HL[628]=':'
HL[629]=':'
HL[630]=':'
HL[631]=':'

//july

HL[701]='<br>Ice vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15&cent;'
HL[702]=':'
HL[703]=':'
HL[704]='<br>1st fireworks are held at Cleveland Stadium.'
HL[705]=':'
HL[706]=':'
HL[707]=':'
HL[708]=':'
HL[709]=':'
HL[710]=':'
HL[711]=':'
HL[712]=':'
HL[713]=':'
HL[714]=':'
HL[715]=':'
HL[716]='<br>The Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people (the deadliest historic natural disaster).'
HL[717]=':'
HL[718]='<br>1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched.'
HL[719]=':'
HL[720]=':'
HL[721]=':'
HL[722]=':'
HL[723]='<br>France announces they can\'\t afford to send a team to 1932 LA olympics.'
HL[724]=':'
HL[725]='<br>Flip the Frog\'\s "<a href="http://www.thegreat1930s.com/ubiwerks/flip_toons/the_new_car.html" target="_blank">The New Car</a>" premiered to-day.'
HL[726]='<br>The millennialist Bible Student movement adopts the name Jehovah\'\s Witnesses at a meeting in Columbus, Ohio.'
HL[727]='<br>Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr and SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops.'
HL[728]=':'
HL[729]=':'
HL[730]=':'
HL[731]=':'

//august

HL[801]='<br>Comic Strip Ziggy creator Tom Wilson is born'
HL[802]=':'
HL[803]=':'
HL[804]=':'
HL[805]=':'
HL[806]=':'
HL[807]=':'
HL[808]=':'
HL[809]=':'
HL[810]=':'
HL[811]=':'
HL[812]=':'
HL[813]=':'
HL[814]=':'
HL[815]=':'
HL[816]=':'
HL[817]=':'
HL[818]='<br>Lou Gehrig hitless in Detroit, his 1,000th consecutively played game.'
HL[819]=':'
HL[820]='<br>\'\Mr. Crazy Hair\'\ Don King was born.'
HL[821]='<br>Babe Ruth hits his 600th Home Run.'
HL[822]=':'
HL[823]=':'
HL[824]=':'
HL[825]='<br>TV legend Regis Philbin was born.'
HL[826]=':'
HL[827]=':'
HL[828]=':'
HL[829]='<br>Flip the Frog\'\s "<a href="http://www.thegreat1930s.com/ubiwerks/flip_toons/movie_mad.html" target="_blank">Movie Mad</a>" premiered to-day.'
HL[830]=':'
HL[831]='<br>The Yangtze River floods, leaving 23 million homeless.'

//sept

HL[901]='<br>Country music legend Boxcar Willie was born.'
HL[902]=':'
HL[903]=':'
HL[904]=':'
HL[905]=':'
HL[906]=':'
HL[907]=':'
HL[908]='<br>In Hagerstown, Maryland, USA a meteorite crashes through a roof.'
HL[909]=':'
HL[910]='<br>The worst hurricane in Belize history kills an estimated 1,500 people.'
HL[911]=':'
HL[912]='<br>Actor Sir Ian Holm was born.'
HL[913]='<br>The beautiful Barbara Bain of Mission: Impossible & Space:1999 was born.'
HL[914]=':'
HL[915]=':'
HL[916]=':'
HL[917]='<br>1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, New York City), the venture failed.'
HL[918]=':'
HL[919]='<br>The Marx Brothers\'\ "Monkey Business" premiered.'
HL[920]=':'
HL[921]='<br>I Dream of Jeannie\'\s Larry Hagman  was born.'
HL[922]='<br>United Kingdom abandons the gold standard.'
HL[923]=':'
HL[924]=':'
HL[925]='<br>Legendary television newswoman Barbara Walters was born.'
HL[926]=':'
HL[927]=':'
HL[928]=':'
HL[929]='<br>Sweden and Denmark abandoned the gold standard.'
HL[930]='<br>Actress Angie Dickinson was born.'
HL[931]=':'

//oct
HL[1001]=':'
HL[1002]=':'
HL[1003]=':'
HL[1004]='<br>The Dick Tracy strip, created by Chester Gould, debuted in the Detroit Mirror.'
HL[1005]=':'
HL[1006]=':'
HL[1007]='<br>the 1st infra-red photograph was shot, Rochester, New York.'
HL[1008]=':'
HL[1009]=':'
HL[1010]='<br>St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics.'
HL[1011]=':'
HL[1012]=':'
HL[1013]=':'
HL[1014]=':'
HL[1015]=':'
HL[1016]=':'
HL[1017]='<br>Al Capone was sentenced to an 11 year prison term for tax evasion.'
HL[1018]='<br>Thomas Edison passes away at the age of 84.'
HL[1019]='<br>Canada abandoned the gold standard.'
HL[1020]='<br>Baseball legend Mickey Mantle was born.'
HL[1021]=':'
HL[1022]=':'
HL[1023]=':'
HL[1024]='<br>The George Washington Bridge is dedicated; it opens to traffic the following day.'
HL[1025]=':'
HL[1026]=':'
HL[1027]=':'
HL[1028]=':'
HL[1029]=':'
HL[1030]=':'
HL[1031]='<br>CBS Newsman Dan Rather was born.'

//nov
HL[1101]=':'
HL[1102]=':'
HL[1103]='<br>1st commercially produced synthetic rubber was manufactured.'
HL[1104]=':'
HL[1105]='<br>Ike Turner was born.'
HL[1106]='<br>Director Mike Nichols was born.'
HL[1107]='<br>Chinese People\'\s Republic was proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung.'
HL[1108]='<br>60 Minutes Morley Safer was born.'
HL[1109]='<br>"The Champ" with Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper premiered.'
HL[1110]=':'
HL[1111]=':'
HL[1112]=':'
HL[1113]=':'
HL[1114]=':'
HL[1115]=':'
HL[1116]=':'
HL[1117]=':'
HL[1118]=':'
HL[1119]=':'
HL[1120]='<br>Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T).'
HL[1121]=':'
HL[1122]=':'
HL[1123]=':'
HL[1124]=':'
HL[1125]=':'
HL[1126]=':'
HL[1127]=':'
HL[1128]='<br>1960\'\s beauty Hope Lange was born.'
HL[1129]=':'
HL[1130]=':'
HL[1131]=':'

//dec
HL[1201]=':'
HL[1202]=':'
HL[1203]=':'
HL[1204]='<br>Frankenstein opened in New York City at the Mayfair Theatre.'
HL[1205]=':'
HL[1206]=':'
HL[1207]=':'
HL[1208]='<br>Coaxial cable patented.'
HL[1209]=':'
HL[1210]='<br>Jane Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.'
HL[1211]='<br>Japan abandons the gold standard.'
HL[1212]=':'
HL[1213]=':'
HL[1214]=':'
HL[1215]=':'
HL[1216]=':'
HL[1217]='<br>Partridge Family\'\s Dave Madden was born.'
HL[1218]=':'
HL[1219]=':'
HL[1220]=':'
HL[1221]='<br>Flip the Frog\'\s "<a href="http://www.thegreat1930s.com/ubiwerks/flip_toons/spooks.html" target="_blank">Spooks</a>" premiered to-day.'
HL[1222]=':'
HL[1223]=':'
HL[1224]=':'
HL[1225]=':'
HL[1226]=':'
HL[1227]=':'
HL[1228]=':'
HL[1229]=':'
HL[1230]=':'
HL[1231]='<br>Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde premiered.'

if (HL[TOT]==':'){
var tiptitle='<strong>Did you know that in 1931</strong>';

}
else {
var tiptitle='<strong>On this day in 1931:</strong>';
}



var quotnum = "27";
var sds = new Array(1000);
sds[0]="<br>The Tootsie Pop was introduced.";
sds[1]="<br>Tampons were invented.";
sds[2]="<br>Fisher Price introduced their first line of toys.";
sds[3]="<br>Construction began on the Hoover Dam.";
sds[4]="<br>The first electric guitar was invented.";
sds[5]="<br>The first Trans-Pacific flight was completed.";
sds[6]="<br>British physicists built an atom smasher.";
sds[7]="<br>The price of a gallon of gasoline was 10&cent;.";
sds[8]="<br>Herbert Hoover was president.";
sds[9]="<br>The Miss America Pageant was not held.";
sds[10]="<br>Life expentancy was 59.7 years old.";
sds[11]="<br>A first class stamp was 2&cent;.";
sds[12]="<br>A movie ticket was 25&cent;.";
sds[13]="<br>Tuition to Harvard was $400/year.";
sds[14]="<br>The average income was $1,858/year.";
sds[15]="<br>The average cost of a new home was $6,796.";
sds[16]="<br>The average cost of a new car was $640.";
sds[17]="<br>A loaf of bread was 8&cent;.";
sds[18]="<br>Salvador Dali painted his most well known painting \"\Persistance of Memory\"\.";
sds[19]="<br>Snicker Bars were introduced.";
sds[20]="<br>Twinkies were introduced.";
sds[21]="<br>Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig hit 46 home runs apiece.";
sds[22]="<br>Unemployement in America was at 16 percent.";
sds[23]="<br>Birdseye frozen vegtables hit the market.";
sds[24]="<br>Buck Rogers and Little Orphan Annie radio serials premiered.";
sds[25]="<br>Bonnie and Clyde started their crime spree.";
sds[26]="<br>Bisquik was introduced.";
sds[27]="<br>The first commercially available Metal Detector was introduced.";

var arandomn=Math.random() * quotnum;
arandomn=Math.round(arandomn);
var daquote =sds[arandomn];

if (HL[TOT] == ':') {


(HL[TOT] = ':' + daquote);
}