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The rain was not hard enough yesterday to halt the final between Vitas Gerulaitis and John McEnroe in the Tournament of Champions, but it was steady enough to lift Gerulaitis past his New York rival, 2-6, 6-2, 6-0, for the $100,000 top prize.
The annual rate of inflation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, is slowing sharply and should be below 10 percent by the end of the year, according to a broad spectrum of economists.
The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court is investigating the conduct of partners in a major Manhattan law firm in representing investors in a company competing for the city's lucrative bus shelter franchise, according to people familiar with the inquiry.
"We are destined to do the work whites don't," said a Hispanic factory worker who lives with seven members of his family in a five-room apartment in upper Manhattan. He concedes, however, that he is better off than his parents in the Dominican Republic, because "at least in this country I am working."
TORONTO, May 11 As American bankers and borrowers examine the possibility of mortgages with varying terms as short as five years, their Canadian colleagues are routinely dealing in mortgages with one-year terms. There are even a growing number of mortgages here with 180-day terms.
WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie will raise the matter of West European sanctions against Iran in his meetings in Brussels and Vienna this week with allied foreign ministers, high-ranking Administration officials said today.
HEBRON, Israeli-Occupied West Bank The three thousand mourners who filled the narrow streets a week ago are gone, and the freshest grave in the ancient Jewish cemetery has been left in silence. The anguished struggle of Eli Hazeev, a warrior who never won a war, is over.
In the spring, on the first fair weekend day, the city of New York explodes. People by the tens of thousands burst from the winter confinement of their apartments and into Central Park.
HOT SPRINGS, Va., May 11 Despite indications of a worsening recession, top business leaders gathered here this weekend and exhorted the Carter Administration and the Federal Reserve to continue cutting the Federal budget and slowing the growth of money and credit.
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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