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NANTUCKET, Mass., March 7 On a bitterly cold, blustery night last January, Dr. Margaret M. Kilcoyne disappeared from her vacation home on the deserted moors here, creating a mystery that seems to deepen almost daily.
WASHINGTON, March 10 The amount of consumer installment credit outstanding rose by $1.37 billion in January for an annual rate of growth of 5.3 percent, the Federal Reserve Board reported today.
The "prep school" look has graduated from the college campus and taken its place in the shop windows of the nation's big cities.
SUBTLE brain waves, such as a newly discovered one that appears only when a person finds nonsense at the end of an otherwise ordinary sentence, are enabling scientists to eavesdrop on some of the highest mental activities of the human brain.
WASHINGTON, March 10--The prolonged discussions between the Administration and Congressional leaders over balancing the 1981 budget have produced a shift in emphasis from cutting spending toward increasing revenues, possibly by imposing an oil-import fee, according to Congressional sources.
As hotly competing New York City banks struggle to lure new customers and stem an outflow of depositors' money to better-paying investments, complaints of misleading promotions and other abuses have increased, according to state and city consumer and banking officials.
WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) After 11 years of courtroom battles in the country's longest antitrust suit, the Justice Department and the International Business Machines Corporation are ready to discuss moves that could lead to an out-of-court settlement.
PSYCHIATRISTS are now taking on their youngest patients ever, reaching out for the roots of mental illness in babies only days or hours old.
SALISBURY, Rhodesia, March 10 After several days of tense negotiations, Prime Minister-designate Robert Mugabe today appointed Joshua Nkomo, his partner in the Patriotic Front guerrilla alliance, to be Minister of Home Affairs. The post could give him authority over the police.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 10 Saudi Arabia is within days of signing one of the largest construction contracts ever awarded, a $2 billion project to build a campus for Riyadh University, according to the president of the institution.
SOME people call them nature's thermometers. They are rhododendrons, the nondeciduous, broad-leaved plants that decorate thousands of suburban yards with their greenery in both the winter and summer.
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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