function makeArray(len) { for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) this[i] = null; this.length = len; } tinh= new makeArray(16); tinh[0]='February 22'; tinh[1]='

1371<\/h3>Robert II succeeded to the throne of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.'; tinh[2]='

1819<\/h3>Spain ceded Florida to the United States.'; tinh[3]='

1862<\/h3>Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as president of the Confederacy.'; tinh[4]='

1865<\/h3>Tennessee adopted a new constitution abolishing slavery.'; tinh[5]='

1879<\/h3>Frank Winfield Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, N.Y.'; tinh[6]='

1892<\/h3> Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who personified romantic rebellion, was born (d. Oct. 19, 1950).'; tinh[7]='

1924<\/h3>Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.'; tinh[8]='

1932<\/h3>Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., was born in Boston, the youngest child of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy.'; tinh[9]='

1935<\/h3>It became illegal for airplanes to fly over the White House.'; tinh[10]='

1959<\/h3>The inaugural Daytona 500 race was held in Daytona Beach, Fla.'; tinh[11]='

1980<\/h3>The U.S. hockey team beat the Soviets 4-3 In a stunning upset at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)'; tinh[12]='

2001<\/h3>A U.N. war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs on charges of rape and torture in the first case of wartime sexual enslavement to go before an international court.'; tinh[13]='

2006<\/h3>Insurgents destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq\'s holiest Shiite shrines, the Askariya mosque in Samarra, setting off a spasm of sectarian violence.'; tinh[14]='

2011<\/h3>A magnitude-6.1 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, killed 184 people.'; tinh[15]='

2011<\/h3>Somali pirates shot to death four Americans taken hostage on their yacht several hundred miles south of Oman.';