you need to use both the strtotime() and date() functions
the strtotime() function converts the string to a unix timestamp
the date() function formats the timestamp based on the format parameters you pass in
<td class="WADAResultsTableCell"><?php echo(date("F j, Y", strtotime($row_WADAarticles['date']))); ?></td>
in your code, you where passing the parameters, but not using the data() function