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Ray Crabtree--impresario, songwriter, radio personality and purveyor of used clothes--has known better times, but he insists even now that he has known no bad ones.
WASHINGTON, March 24--Representative Robert N. Giaimo of Connecticut, who after years of relative obscurity had emerged as one of the most powerful members of Congress in the drive to balance the Federal budget, announced today that he would not seek another term.
CAIRO, March 24--The deposed Shah of Iran arrived in Egypt today looking pale and haggard after an all-night flight from Panama on a chartered DC-8 jet.
WASHINGTON, March 24--By flying to Cairo, the Shah has unhinged efforts to bring the lengthening Iranian crisis to an end and left officials here more frustrated than ever in finding a way to obtain the release of the 53 Americans being held in Teheran.
WASHINGTON, March 24--Amid signs that the bipartisan coalition that had supported a balanced budget for the fiscal year 1981 was beginning to unravel, House Democratic leaders said today that they expected floor action on the proposal to be postponed until after the Easter recess.
MEXICO CITY, March 24--Mexican officials said today that engineers had successfully completed a nine-month fight against the world's worst oil spill, capping a well in the Gulf of Mexico that had fouled beaches in southern Texas.
THE brains of male and female animals differ physically and chemically in ways that may help explain some basic behavior patterns of the sexes.
WASHINGTON, March 24--The Carter Administration, moving to counter the inflationary effects of protecting domestic industry from foreign competition, ruled today against raising tariffs on imports of tomatoes from Mexico and leather wearing apparel, mainly from South Korea.
WHITE PLAINS, March 24--A State Supreme Court justice ruled today that a lawyer for the woman accused of shooting Dr. Herman Tarnower must turn over to a grand jury a 10-page letter she wrote to him earlier on the day he was slain.
WASHINGTON, March 24--A longawaited proposal by the Communications Satellite Corporation, already a leader in satellite communications, to enter the business of television programming by transmitting directly to ...
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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