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Douglas LaChance, president of the newspaper deliverers union, was indicted in Manhattan yesterday on Federal charges that he had obtained $330,000 in cash payoffs from 14 companies that distribute newspapers in the New York area.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--House and Senate conferees agreed today on how to distribute the $227.3 billion that the "windfall" profits tax on oil companies is expected to raise in coming years, but left the details to future legislation.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--New York's latest effort to reimburse parochial schools for the costs of meeting state testing and record-keeping requirements was upheld today by the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--The Supreme Court ruled today, 5 to 4, that members of faculties at private universities are "managerial" employees whose efforts to unionize are not protected by Federal labor law.
Almost a third of the city's savings banks reported operating or overall losses for the fourth quarter of 1979, primarily because of the extraordinarily high level of interest rates.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (AP)--The United States economy grew at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the final quarter of 1979, a stronger showing than earlier statistics had indicated, the Government reported today.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--The Carter Administration, concerned about the future availability of imported oil, is sending Energy Secretary Charles W. Duncan Jr. to Saudi Arabia early next month to discuss resumption of purchases for the nation's strategic petroleum reserve, according to senior Government officials.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 20-- The release of the American hostages in Iran was again thrown into doubt today when the United Nations inquiry commission delayed its trip from Geneva to Teheran for at least three days.
DETROIT, Feb. 20--The General Motors Corporation announced plans today to expand its capacity to build automobile components in Europe. Trade sources estimated the cost of the new plans at $1 billion.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20--Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the elder daughter and last surviving child of President Theodore Roosevelt, died today after a short illness in the mansion she had lived in for more than half a century. She was 96 years old.
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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