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WASHINGTON THE Ronald Reagan of 1980 is a particularly instructive candidate, replete with lessons in politics and economics. He has provided a vivid demonstration of the conflicts within Republican circles...
SCHOOL districts on the Island, about to present next year's budgets, will be doing so with an unexpected increase in state education funds.
MONTREAL IT hovers over their heads and obliterates the 22 Stanley Cup banners that hang from the roof of the Forum. It is the specter of their vulnerability.
BEER drinking may not be the pleasure that springs most readily to mind when someone mentions Brussels. For most people, the Belgian capital's crowning glory is probably its Grand' Place, surrounded by gilt-encrusted old Guild Houses--or its seemingly innumerable restaurants, serving the best of French cuisine in German-sized helpings.
After 11 days of traffic jams, car pooling and just plain walking, New Yorkers took to the buses and subways yesterday. But bitter disagreements continued in the transit strike's aftermath over the cast of the settlement and the outlook for the 50cent fare.
The inauguration of the Andre Meyer Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is, by any standard of reckoning, a major event in the art life of New York, and thus in the art life of the...
SOMERVILLE FOR what he said was the first time in the state's history, a Superior Court judge has set up guidelines covering the admis sibility in criminal trials of corroborative evidence obtained through hypnosis.
AT a time of growing concern about the contamination of Suffolk County's drinking water supply and other pollution problems, the assistant dis trict attorney who had prosecuted polluters full time has resigned and has not yet been replaced.
THIS is about nota, the notarius, the notarii, notaries public and S-3028, legislation sponsored by me and recently signed into law by Governor Byrne. It represents the first major changes in the state's notary public law in more than 35 years.
HARTFORD THE Jaycee Youth House here, a shelter for as many as 12 troubled, unwanted or delinquent boys, has seven staff members, only one of whom holds a bachelor's degree in social work.
In Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God," which has just torn a hole through the heart of the season like a gun with a silencer on it, speech therapist John Rubinstein finds himself falling deeply in love with...
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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