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Three-year-old Ema Oriyo is shy with adult strangers. But she is picking up English so rapidly from her American playmates at the East Side International Community Center that her father, Kimonge Oriyo, teases her that she will soon forget her native Swahili.
WASHINGTON, March 5--House and Senate conferees took sweeping action today to remove limits on savings interest rates over a period of six years and encourage bank regulators to raise rates at least 2.25 percentage points within that time.
WASHINGTON, March 5--The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold public hearings next week on the United States vote against Israel in the United Nations Security Council and its subsequent renunciation by President Carter, Senator Frank Church, the committee chairman, said today.
WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) --The United States and Britain today announced a major expansion in air links that could result in 16 new services between the two countries by 1984.
The debate between corporations and shareholders over investment in South Africa and nuclear power leads the list of issues scheduled to be raised at annual meetings this spring.
WHEN shopping for complex and expensive stereo components, how important is it to know the difference between watts and woofers? To find the answer, two shoppers who are anything but expert in high fidelity equipment recently visited five stores that were considered a cross-section of Manhattan audio dealers. The five stores were:
Stock prices tumbled across a broad front in active trading yesterday as the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 11.60 points. Fears of higher interest rates contributed to the market decline.
Saccharin use can be blamed for little, if any, current cancer of the bladder and urinary tract among Americans, data from three major studies in humans indicate.
WASHINGTON, March 5--Acknowledging that he was out of step with his party as well as with Congress, Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. disagreed today with President Carter's objective of balancing the budget, calling it a symbolic gesture that would have little effect on inflation.
Suffolk County Executive Peter F. Cohalan announced yesterday that the county was terminating its contract with the engineering firm of Bowe Walsh and Associates, which has already been paid about $54 million for supervising construction of the county's Southwest Sewer District.
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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