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JOHANNESBURG, Monday, June 2 Guerrillas attacked three strategic fuel installations near here last night, setting off explosions at seven storage tanks and igniting fires that could be seen nearly 50 miles away.
FORT CHAFFEE, Ark., June 1 Rioting broke out in the Fort Chaffee refugee relocation center this evening as about 200 Cubans, angered by delays in the processing of their cases, pelted the police and soldiers with stones after bursting out the front gate. Between 15 and 20 law enforcement officers, at least one civilian
A 25-year-old Manhattan man was charged with firing three shots early yesterday at Reggie Jackson, the New York Yankees outfielder, after the two men had exchanged angry words on East 83d Street.
CODEX and Genuine Risk will run the Preakness over again today-over and over and over. Several hundred feet above the bend of the Pimlico oval, where first they met, the colt and the filly will stage their stretch run this time on a silver screen of beaded glass crystals.
NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., June 1 Beth Daniel, who is known on the Ladies' Professional Golf Association tour for exceptional distance off the tees and occasional displays of temper, won the Golden Lights Classic at the Wykagyl Country Club today as she beat Jo Ann Washam and Nancy LopezMelton by two strokes.
FORT WAYNE, Ind., June 1 At 2:05 A.M. Thursday, in a parking lot at the Marriott Inn here, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., perhaps the nation's best known civil rights leader, was shot in the back and severely wounded by an unknown assailant.
The notion of a "prime rate" is causing bankers headaches because they have become subjects of political criticism recently as interest rates in money markets have fallen more rapidly than their posted prime lending rates.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy yesterday brushed aside President Carter's olive branch, saying he did not think the two of them should sit down after tomorrow's final primaries and try to settle the platform for the Democratic National Convention.
LENINGRAD Past the handsome buildings of this city's Czarist heritage flowed a crowd that belied the adage that people in Leningrad are more relaxed, more courteous and better dressed than elsewhere in the Soviet Union. They were just as plain and shabby as the crowds in Moscow, and they jostled just as much.
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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