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BONN, April 8 The West German Finance Ministry has reached an agreement with American officials for the United States to invest one billion marks in West German Government financial instruments, Finance Ministry sources said today.
It was a good year for the oil business last year in the paycheck as well as at the pump. Raises for the top executives of Big Oil are running well ahead of those being reported for their counterparts in other industries.
WASHINGTON, April 8 The United States urged its allies today to follow the American lead and take strong economic and political measures against Iran to persuade that country to release its American hostages.
New York City's striking transit unions were fined a total of $1 million yesterday for the first eight days of the walkout and were ordered to return to work at once by a justice in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn.
The tradition of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey Circus is to keep smiling through tornadoes, snowstorms and even transit strikes, but there is a grimace under the greasepaint at Madison Square Garden this week.
The decision by the Federal Communications Commission to deregulate key portions of the telephone industry is perhaps the most far-reaching action affecting the industry since the original Communications Act of the 1930's.
ATLANTIC CITY Holiday Inns is topping off its $75 million, 15-story Holiday Inn Marina casino hotel here this week while hoping that controversy over...
WASHINGTON, April 8 The plan of the Federal Communications Commission to require telephone companies to list separately the monthly charges for phone service and for availability of the phone is expected to make it easy for consumers to decide what to buy.
SAVANNAH, GA. ALBERT STODDARD may not be celebrated throughout this city of moss, magnolias and fine mansions as the last authority on Georgian cooking. But to a group of friends who have dined in his home, he is one of its best cooks.
HONG KONG, April 8 Both China and Taiwan, in major but quiet policy changes, are now encouraging American companies to do business on both sides of the Formosa Strait, according to American...
WASHINGTON, April 8 Charles L. Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said today that he saw "some signals that could be associated with a reccesssion," but he stopped short of declaring that a recession was under way.
LONDON, April 8 Because of a world oil surplus, Iran would have trouble carrying out a threat to cut off oil shipments to Japan and Britain, its two major customers, if they joined a United States economic embargo against Iran.
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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