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There is no way, detectives say, to foil an "expert" who is determined to pick your pocket, but there are ways to lower the odds that it will be picked. Detective Robert Magone of the Transit Authority's Pickpocket Squad offers some advice.
The marquees of Broadway theaters will go dark for one minute on Saturday night in memory of Richard Rodgers. Mr. Rodgers, who was eulogized yesterday at a private funeral service at Temple Emanu-El, died Sunday night ...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2--Paul A. Volcker, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, stressed today that the board was not abandoning its policy of monetary restraint in the face of a recession, although interest rates would probably continue their decline of recent weeks.
"THERE wasn't even space for a toothbrush holder in this bathroom," said the de signer Florence Perchuk. "I had to hide it in a cabinet." Over the last few years her Manhattan company, SVP Kitchen and Baths Inc., has ...
The first trading session of the new year got off to an ominous start yesterday as the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 14.17 points to 824.57 in its heaviest loss since last October.
In what appeared to be the largest single price increase ever for home heating oil, Texaco Inc. announced a 6-cent-a-gallon rise at wholesale yesterday.
CRAFTS boomed in the 1970's, with handmade furniture, jewelry, clothing, glass and pottery returning to galleries, department stores and homes across the land for the first time in decades.
Removal of a New York State Supreme Court justice, James L. Kane of Buffalo, was called for in a report made public yesterday by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct--its first such removal action against a Supreme Court justice.
Platinum, a metal basic to the manufacture of synthetic fibers, jet aircraft engines, eyeglasses, gasoline and many other consumer and industrial products, shot up by a record $113.90 an ounce yesterday to $806.50, the highest price ever paid for it.
TEHERAN, Iran, Jan. 2--Secretary General Kurt Waldheim of the United Nations encountered frustrations today in his effort to find common ground with Iran for a solution to the crisis over the Americans being held hostage.
I was wondering if anything interesting on the news was going on when I was born, and decided to create this website for fun. The purpose is to show people what was going on when they were born. With this website I've found out that it was a pretty slow news day on my birthday, but I bet it would feel cool to know a historical event happened on your birthday.
The data used in this project is provided by the New York Times API. They have by far the best API I was able to find, with articles dating back to the 1950s. There weren't any other major newspapers that had an API with close to as much data. The closest was the Guardian API, but theirs only went back to the 1990s. I decided to only use articles from the New York Times because their API was by far the best. This tool works if you have a birthday after the 1950s or so.
Some important dates in history I'd recommend looking up on this website are:
These historical events are just a few examples of the fascinating moments in history you can explore through this tool. Whether you're interested in your own birthday, significant historical dates, or just curious about what was making headlines on any given day, this website offers a unique window into the past through the lens of contemporary news coverage.
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