What happened on a particular day in history?
Who else shares your birthday?
User enters a month and date. Use an ArrayList to store information from a file about events that happened in the month selected, then find events associated with the specified day.
All known data about a month is stored in a file with a name such as "monthdata.03" which is data for March. This is the file format used in the monthdata files:
Any line that starts with 'B' is a birthday: B10071885 Niels Bohr, physicist & Nobel laureate, expanded quantum physics. Any line that starts with 'S' is a single date or recurring event: recurring event example: S0401 : April Fool's Day single event example: S04161866: Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo & Co. office explodes.
Results for an example day of July 4 include this display:
born in 1826: Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna" born in 1872: Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929) on this day in 1054: brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days. on this day in 1863: Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho). annual event: Independence Day
All data in the month files was frozen in 1984.
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