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Like a great ship moving into a Sargasso Sea, housing activity appears to be heading for the stagnant waters of a decline that may eventually exceed that of the recessionary period of the middle 1970's.
OYSTER BAY SABRINA, a tiny Flicka class sloop, has been bobbing gently in the frigid water of Oyster Bay Marina since last fall. She has weathered the northerlies that have howled across Center Island and ice that has bumped against her sleek hull. Temperatures have dropped occasionally to zero there.
Two recent events have clearly demonstrated that music, traditionally regarded as the least tendentious of the arts, is still subject to severe political control in the Soviet Union.
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.--Since the early 1970's, census estimates have been showing a spreading out of the American population from the cities and suburbs to the countryside, a trend so widespread that authorities now view it as a major ...
WASHINGTON, March 22--Administration officials said today that President Carter's chief of staff, Hamilton Jordan, was making progress in Panama toward resolving the dispute between American and Panamanian doctors on how to treat the latest illness of the deposed Shah, Mohammed Riza Pahlevi.
UNION SIXTY Union High School juniors and seniors are off to a head start as potential film makers because of their involvement in an unusual program of daily cable-television production for Suburban Cablevision of Orange.
As New York City's transit contract negotiations approach their decisive, final week, many of the interested parties find themselves in agreement on only two things: the likelihood of a strike and the near certainty of an increase in bus and subway fares.
No, Mississippi steamboating is not abso lutely dead. Not while the Delta Queen ambles her proud, vestigial way upstream and down, riding the wake of history, perpetuating a leisurely life style that is impossible to reproduce on land.
No fewer than 22 paintings by Gustave Courbet hang on a silk-covered wall. In a gallery nearby stand 40 works by Auguste Rodin, not on public view since the late 1940's. And three entire bays are devoted to the work of Edgar Degas: 40 paintings, drawings and pastels and 64 bronzes.
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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