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Safeway Stores and the Great Atlantic Pacific Tea Company, two of the nation's three largest supermarket chains, announced yesterday that they were freezing prices for 30 days on private-label ...
ANDRE PREVIN, like most symphony orchestra conductors, can be a most persuasive fellow. In his line of work, in fact, it is persuade or die. When he took charge of the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1976, the slight and soft-spoken Mr. Previn found that there was resistance ...
WASHINGTON, March 6--The Carter Administration has suspended plans to seek Congressional approval for $400 million in economic and military aid to Pakistan, Government officials dealing with foreign policy said today.
Oil stocks, the recent glamour issues, dropped sharply yesterday as the stock market went into a broad decline attributed to growing concern over rising interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 16.81 points, to its lowest level since Jan. 3.
TEHERAN, Iran, March 6--The Islamic militants who have held 50 Americans hostage since Nov. 4 announced today that they had agreed, under "intolerable pressures" from Iranian authorities, to turn their captives over to the governing Revolutionary Council.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 6-- Asian diplomats said here today that the announcement by the militants occupying the United States Embassy in Teheran was an important step toward the ultimate freedom of the hostages, but they added that obstacles still lay ahead.
Edwin H. Land, the pioneer of instant photography and founder of the giant Polaroid Corporation, announced yesterday that he was stepping down as the company's chief executive officer.
Amid widespread speculation that the Carter Administration may step up the battle against inflation by imposing credit controls, starting with consumer credit cards, bankers around the nation say they are moving to curtail their credit card operations--not in anticipation of a controls program, but for profit reasons only.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 6-- Faced with social dislocations, an influx of foreign workers and growing political discontent, Saudi Arabia is pressing ahead with its huge development program in the conviction that continued spending for industrialization will overcome the strains of modernization.
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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