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HAVANA, April 13 Peruvian diplomats continued to meet today with officials from other Latin American countries here, seeking help in placing the more than 10,000 Cubans who sought asylum in Peru's Embassy.
WASHINGTON, April 13 The signs are that an economic recession has begun or soon will begin. The Administration denies that it has deliberately courted a general slump in spending, production and jobs, but that seems to ...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., April 13 The Cosmos scored a 2-1 shootout victory over the Minnesota Kicks today in a game that lacked excitement and drew 51,225 fans to Giants Stadium, about 20,000 fewer than at last season's home opener.
PHOENIX Many of the growing cities in the Southwest, whose sizes, shapes and characters have been determined largely by the easy mobility of the automobile, have begun to think about a future without cheap gasoline.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 13 Faced with a shortage of engineers, recruitment problems exacerbated by high housing costs and an industrial space squeeze, the fabled growth companies of Silicon Valley have decided to do their growing elsewhere.
WASHINGTON, April 13 Alice M. Rivlin, the senior Congressional staff economist, has added fresh fuel to the debate about tax reduction and "supply-side" economics.
HOUSTON THERE are times, John J. McMullen was postulating, when "one plus one makes more than two."
WASHINGTON, April 13--The United States is pressing its allies to impose economic sanctions against Iran later this month and then to break diplomatic ties with Teheran by mid-May if progress is not made toward resolving the hostage crisis by then, senior Administration officials said today.
JERUSALEM, Monday, April 14 An Israeli military official said this morning that all Israeli forces had been withdrawn from southern Lebanon after a five-day occupation that had accomplished certain "engineering tasks."
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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