Select MySQL table rows with the current day and month

Year	Event
1756	England decares war on France
1804	Napoleon became Emperor of France
1897	NY Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
1899	World Good-Will Day - 26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
1910	Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
1917	US passes Selective Service act
1933	TVA Act signed by FDR
1951	UN moves HQ to NYC
1953	1st woman pilot faster than speed of sound (Jacqueline Cochran)
1969	Apollo 10 launched toward lunar orbit
1974	India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
1980	Mt St Helens blows its top in Washington State

Bootstrap CSS and JS Files

<link href="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.12.1/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script src="https://cdn.datatables.net/1.12.1/js/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>

HTML and PHP

$conn = new mysqli ("server", "user", "password", "database");
mysqli_set_charset ($conn, "utf8");
if ($conn -> connect_error) {
die ("Error: " . $conn->connect_error);
} 
$sql = "SELECT * FROM mcm_demo_today_in_history WHERE DAY(mcm_date)=DAY(NOW()) AND MONTH(mcm_date)=MONTH(NOW()) LIMIT 0, 60";
$result = $conn -> query($sql);
echo "<table id='demoTable' class='table table-striped'>";
echo "<thead>";
echo "<tr>";
echo "<th>Year</th>";
echo "<th>Event</th>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</thead>";
echo "<tbody>"; 
while ($row = $result -> fetch_assoc()) { 

$var_year = date_create($row["mcm_date"]);

echo "<tr>";
echo '<td>' . date_format($var_year, 'Y') . '</td>' . "\n";
echo "<td>" . $row["mcm_event"] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}

echo "</tbody>";
echo "</table>";
$conn -> close();
?>

CSS

.demo-container {
  margin: 0 auto;
  max-width: 900px;
  padding: 2em;
}

.dataTables_paginate {
  margin-top: 1em;
  border: none;
}

.header-search-results {
  margin: 2em 0;
  padding: 0.5em;
  border: 1px solid #ECECEC;
}
	
.dataTables_filter {
   width: 50%;
   float: right;
   text-align: right;
}
	
ul.pagination {
  float: right !important;
  padding-top: 2em;
}

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$("#table-demo").DataTable({
paging: true,
pageLength: 4,
ordering: true,
info: false,
lengthChange: false,
language: {
search: "_INPUT_",
searchPlaceholder: "Search"
},
search: {
addClass: 'form-control input-lg col-xs-12',
},
});
});
</script>