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I've been following along with the tutorial on drupal.org and it was pretty easy to get done.
There were only two issues that came up :

1. The tutorial is written for Drupal 4.6/4.7 and I'm running Drupal 5.1. Perhaps for this reason, in addition to the steps described in the tutorial I found it necessary to create an onthisdate.info file - until I did this the new module did not show up on the admin > modules screen.
2. The module is designed to only display links to content from a specific date which for a new site like this means it may show nothing at first run. That is a easy enough to work around, to at least get some result:

   function onthisdate_block($op='list', $delta=0) {
   [snip]
   $query = "SELECT nid, title, created FROM {node} WHERE created <= '" . $end_time . "'";

   /*
   $query = "SELECT nid, title, created FROM {node} WHERE created >= '" . $start_time .
   "' AND created <= '". $end_time . "'";
   */
   [snip]
   if ($block_content == '') {
   $block_content = "no content from a week ago, return query eq $query";
   // return;
   }
   [snip]
   } // end onthisdate_block