function GetTodayText(todaytext){

 this.todaytext = "<table width=500 border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td bgcolor=#000000><table border=0 width='100%' cellpadding=2 cellspacing=1><tr><td width='100%' bgcolor=#FF9888><FONT SIZE=2 FACE=Arial><B>&nbsp;&nbsp;On This Day in History ...</B></FONT></td></tr><tr><td width='100%' bgcolor=#ffffff><FONT SIZE=2 FACE=Arial><ul><li><strong>1837</strong> - Death of Hakob Shahen-Jrpetyan (armenologist) in Tbilissi. He was born in 1772 in Urfa.<li><strong>1837</strong> - Birth of Stepanos Palasanyan (armenologist) in Bodushan, Moldavia. He died in 1889 in Etshmiadsin.<li><strong>1920</strong> - The first order of the Revolutionary Committee of the Armenian SSR creates the People's Commissariat of Military Affairs of the Armenian SSR.<li><strong>1936</strong> - The 7th Extraordinary Congress of the Soviet of the USSR confirms the new constitution. The Armenian SSR becomes a Union Republic.<li><strong>1936</strong> - The Kanaker Power Plant is put on line.</ul></font></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>"

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