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MUSCAT, Oman, Jan. 22 Since Nov. 25, three weeks after the takeover of the American Embassy in Teheran and more ...
LAKE PLACID, N.Y., Jan. 22 Members of the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee were in a meeting discussing the hows and wherefores of making artificial snow when their legal counsel brought them news of the real thing.
PARIS, Jan. 22 It was, in a way, the Russian Revolution that introduced caviar to in ternational high society, and now the Iranian revolution threatens to kill it off.
TUCSON, ARIZ. LUSH lettuce leaves jut from a Styrofoam sheet that floats on a nutrient-rich pond where young catfish are growing. Fat canta loupes hang from an A-frame trellis that straddles the pond.
LONDON, Jan. 22 All day long, people lugging shopping bags and suitcases full of precious heirlooms are lined up at D. Penellier Company in London's Hatton Garden jewelry center. According to the precious-metals dealer, his business has ballooned to 20 times normal this month.
AT Public School 116 on Manhattan's East Side, pupils learn that money goes into a savings bank "a nice, friendly, safe place where your money grows and grows and grows."
DES MOINES, Jan. 22 Just 11 weeks ago, on the eve of his formal announcement as a Presidential candidate, Senator ...
The soaring gold market plunged sharply yesterday as cash prices for topgrade bullion dropped $145 an ounce, to $680, in New York and London. It was the biggest one-day drop in bullion prices ever recorded in any market.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Jan. 23--Because of the Afghanistan crisis, the Carter Administration has made a policy ...
ALBANY, Jan. 22 Governor Carey spent more than two hours today briefing legislators on his new budget recommendations, but even before the session was over, leading members of both parties were criticizing some of his proposed cutbacks and looking for ways to restore them.
The chairman and chief executive of Abraham Straus, the second-largest retailer in the New York area, said yesterday that he had decided to take early retirement at the age of 50.
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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