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As two tireless roosters fluttered and pecked at each other before an audience crammed into the steamy basement of a Lower East Side tenement, a spectator's laughter cut through the yells of those around him. "Oh, how I love los gallos," he shouted.
STOCKHOLM, March 23--Sweden voted today to support limited expansion of nuclear energy.
PANAMA, March 23--The deposed Shah of Iran left here aboard a chartered airliner for Cairo today, just 24 hours before Iran's revolutionary Government was due to present Panamanian authorities with a formal request for his extradition.
JONESVILLE, Va., March 21--Oil and gas deposits are being sought along hundreds of miles of the Appalachian Mountain chain where coal mining has dominated mineral extraction for a century and until recently their presence was considered a geologic impossibility.
WASHINGTON, March 23--Senior Administration officials said today that the failure of the United States to persuade the deposed Shah of Iran to remain in Panama had probably significantly set back the chances for an early end to the 141-day-old crisis with Iran over the American hostages.
WASHINGTON, March 23--As Congress has delved into the details of the Carter Administration's 1981 military budget, it has become clear that the budget contains no bonanza for the defense industry.
THE unusual aspect of tonight's National Collegi ate championship basketball game is that both teams are quite similar physically and philosophically, and in actual style of play.
WASHINGTON (AP) March 23-- The Administration's chief inflation adviser and his former deputy disagreed sharply today on whether the nation needs mandatory wage and price controls, and the head of the nation's second-largest bank denounced the controls that have been imposed on credit.
It hardly seems possible, but overcrowding is becoming a problem in outer space.
JERUSALEM, March 23--Defying intense international pressure, Israel's Cabinet voted narrowly today to re-establish a Jewish presence in the occupied Arab city of Hebron.
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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