What was going on when I was born?

One of the most tumultuous months in the history of American financial markets closed yesterday in characteristic fashion. The stock markets churned through yet another day of heavy volume--65.9 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange--while gold lurched abruptly downward, then up again, closing more than $40 over its low for the day.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31--The Carter Administration has told key Congressional leaders in recent days that it intends to enter into a long-term military support relationship with Pakistan that extends beyond the crisis caused by the Soviet armed intervention in neighboring Afghanistan.

AMSTERDAM, Jan. 31--Queen Juliana of the Netherlands announced tonight that she would abdicate on April 30, her 71st birthday, in favor of her eldest daughter, Princess Beatrix.

Sizable January sales gains were reported yesterday by many of the nation's largest retail chains, which attributed them to strong consumer buying and generally more favorable weather than a year ago.

In the fall of 1977, when the steel industry was in a severe recession, top steel executives and the industry's trade association made a big push in Washington for Government aid. At that time, they had behind them a ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31--The Securities and Exchange Commission charged today that Treasury Secretary G. William Miller knew that Textron Inc. had improperly used $600,000 to entertain Defense Department officials when he was ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31--The House of Representatives today approved legislation that would give millions of dollars this year to cities that are especially hard-pressed economically, but the House also accepted a last-minute amendment that would cut the payments to New York City by more than half.

Despite a growing energy-conservation movement among individual residents in the New York metropolitan area, operators of many apartment, office and retail buildings appear to be making only modest efforts to reduce fuel consumption.

TUXEDO PARK, N.Y.--One does not walk into Tuxedo Park; one is invited in. A stone wall surrounds the Orange County village, and the only way in is a through a gate that is guarded around-the-clock by officers of its 15member police force.

DETROIT, Jan. 31 (AP)--The General Motors Corporation plans to close two of its oldest assembly plants, in Pontiac, Mich., and in St. Louis, and build new ones because it is too expensive to meet air-pollution standards at the present sites.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31--The White House is pressing for legislation that would avoid a flat prohibition on the use of journalists, clergymen or academics as intelligence agents, Senate sources said today.