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The influenza outbreak in New York City has reached "epidemic proportions," according to city officials who said yesterday that they had called in an expert from the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta for advice.
CHICAGO, Feb. 10--The city's striking public school teachers were scheduled to return to work tomorrow after voting overwhelmingly yesterday to approve a compromise agreement with the Board of Education that eased proposed teacher layoffs and salary cuts.
Faced with the growing costs of processing and mailing out bank statements, a small branch of the Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore is attacking the problem at its roots. It has stopped returning canceled checks to some customers.
MINEOLA, L.I.--Telephone technology has finally caught up with the problems that have hampered the adoption of the 911 emergency number--the lifeline for New York City residents for the last 12 years--by most of the city's suburbs. But many suburban communities, worried about losing touch with their local Police and Fire Departments, are still resisting the change.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10--Political action committees representing unions, corporations and other special interests, which played only a minor role in the Presidential races of 1976, are contributing far more to the preconvention campaigns of the major-party contenders this time around.
JERUSALEM, Feb. 10--Israel's Cabinet supported in principle today the position that Jews have the right to resettle in the heart of the occupied Arab city of Hebron, where the last Jewish community was destroyed in rioting by Arabs in 1929.
A Soviet Aeroflot jetliner crew once again surprised American officials by landing yesterday at Kennedy International Airport, disregarding an agreement reached last week.
After 18 months of almost universal forecasts of an impending recession, a growing minority of private economists are leaping off the bandwagon. They now expect the economy to continue advancing, or at least to limp ahead, into 1981.
The New York City Police expect more demonstrators. The Democratic Party expects more delegates. The municipal host committee expects to run more parties for the conventiongoers and the New Yorkers who will serve them.
LAKE PLACID, N.Y., Feb. 10--In the last few days, the Village of Lake Placid has been changed and rearranged with a magical quickness that both fascinates and irritates the people here.
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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