Lab 1990 - Day In History

Description

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.

Data Format

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.

Sample Run

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

Files

All data in the month files was frozen in 1984.