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NEW YORK has become a festival of international theater this first weekend in May. No one planned it that way. It just happened that a repertory company from Peter Brook's Centre International de Creations Theatrales ...
LOS ANGELES, May 1--The optimism that Edgar F. Kaiser Jr. had voiced about the future of the Kaiser Steel Corporation when he took over its management last summer has apparently dimmed--and with reason.
WASHINGTON, May 1--Col. Charlie A. Beckwith, Army commander of the ground force for the rescue mission into Iran, asserted today that he personally recommended to his superiors that the operation be canceled after three of eight helicopters had failed.
HAVANA, May 1--A crude effigy hung on the gate and banners reading "Traitors" wrapped the hedges around the house like a winding sheet. The stink of decomposing eggs floated through the hot air. Someone beat incessantly on a pan.
WASHINGTON, May 1--Ten major American banks lent a subsidiary of the Bache group at least $233 million, taking in return 17.5 million ounces of silver as security, a Government study of the collapse of the silver market disclosed today.
STOCKHOLM, Friday, May 2-- Sweden was plunged today into a series of lockouts and strikes that affected every area of national life and effectively ended the country's reputation as an area of labor peace.
By 8:35 A.M. yesterday, the grayhaired token clerk had had enough angry inquiries from elderly subway riders who wanted to use their half-fare discount cards.
LONDON, May 1--The British Government named a Scottish-born New York investment banker as chairman of its nationalized steel industry today and said it would pay as much as $4.1 million to his American concern for allowing one of its partners to take the job.
WASHINGTON, May 1--At 12:01 this morning the unimaginable happened in this town: The Federal Trade Commission, one of the nation's major agencies, went out of business.
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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