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Last year was a good one for C. Raymond Dahl, chairman and chief executive of the Crown Zellerbach Corporation. In addition to an impressive $421,000 in salary and annual bonus, Mr. Dahl collected another $97,335 as a special bonus.
DETROIT, April 23--Domestic sales of cars made by the nation's Big Three manufacturers dropped 33.5 percent in the mid-April selling period, the steepest year-to-year decline for any 10-day period this year, the companies reported today.
TEHERAN, Iran, April 23--Apparently reacting to the threat of economic sanctions by West Europe's Common Market, Iran today announced "important" new trading accords with the Soviet Union, Rumania and East Germany.
LUXEMBOURG, April 23--An unspoken strategy lay behind yesterday's decision by the European Economic Community to take a series of diplomatic and economic steps against Iran in support of ...
The rally in the money markets continued yesterday, as the Treasury sold one-year bills at an average discount rate of 10.44 percent. This represents an extremely sharp decline of four percentage points from the previous sale of bills a month earlier.
Iran's only hope of selling all the oil that its European and Japanese customers have stopped buying in recent weeks is to export it either to the Soviet bloc or to the less-developed countries of the West.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy and George Bush won the Pennsylvania Presidential primaries, but President Carter and Ronald Reagan made the greater gains in delegates in Tuesday's elections and caucuses, and political analysts agreed that the underdogs needed a series of landslide victories if they were to catch up with the leaders.
"I CAN'T understand," I said to Michel, "why someone like you who has lived in Paris would want to move to New York City."
KEY WEST, Fla., April 23--Hundreds of Cuban dissidents arrived here today aboard a ragtag American flotilla of weathered Florida lobster boats and seedy pleasure craft. The boats were jammed to the gunwales with scores of haggard, frightened-looking refugees.
The author insists that none of the characters in her murder mystery is based on any person living or dead. The corpse, Secretary of State Lancard Blaine, is "pure fiction." President Robert Webster, a suspect in the slaying, is "like no President I've ever known." Whodunit?
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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