function makeArray(len) { for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) this[i] = null; this.length = len; } tinh= new makeArray(20); tinh[0]='February 4'; tinh[1]='

1783<\/h3>Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.'; tinh[2]='

1787<\/h3>Shays\'s Rebellion, an uprising of Massachusetts farmers, was defeated.'; tinh[3]='

1789<\/h3>George Washington and John Adams are elected the president and vice president of the United States.'; tinh[4]='

1861<\/h3>Delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Ala., to form the Confederate States of America.'; tinh[5]='

1902<\/h3> Charles A. Lindbergh, the American aviator who became the first man to fly the Atlantic solo nonstop from the United States to Europe, was born (d. Aug. 26, 1974).'; tinh[6]='

1913<\/h3>Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Ala.'; tinh[7]='

1938<\/h3>The Thornton Wilder play "Our Town" opened on Broadway.'; tinh[8]='

1941<\/h3>The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed.'; tinh[9]='

1945<\/h3>President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.'; tinh[10]='

1948<\/h3>The island nation of Ceylon — now Sri Lanka — became an independent dominion within the British Commonwealth.'; tinh[11]='

1969<\/h3>The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasir Arafat head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.'; tinh[12]='

1974<\/h3>Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, Calif., by the Symbionese Liberation Army.'; tinh[13]='

1976<\/h3>Benjamin Britten, British composer, died.'; tinh[14]='

1977<\/h3>The album "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac was released.'; tinh[15]='

1997<\/h3>A civil jury found O.J. Simpson liable for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.'; tinh[16]='

1999<\/h3>Four plainclothes New York City police officers fired 41 bullets at Amadou Diallo in front of his Bronx home after mistaking his wallet for a gun. The unarmed West African immigrant was killed.'; tinh[17]='

2003<\/h3>Yugoslavia was dissolved and replaced with a loose union of its remaining two republics, Serbia and Montenegro.'; tinh[18]='

2004<\/h3>The Massachusetts high court declared that gays were entitled to marry.'; tinh[19]='

2004<\/h3>The social networking website Facebook was launched.';