September 17 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_17
Wikipedia API URL– http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=September_17&rvprop=content&prop=revisions
Parse and output something like this:
September 17 – On this day in… 1974 – Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
Coming soon.
Disclaimer: I may or may not actually follow through with this.
So I’ve come up with a first draft of this: On This Day
It queries the wikipedia api, parsing the detail it has on specific dates and returning the Historic Events & Births for a given day. Not bad for a first attempt.