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IT has been a bad year for the "Sons of the Bad News Bears," as one mother dubbed the Cubs, and today the score resembles foot ball more than baseball.
SPRINGFIELD, N.J. JUST like Datsun and Sony, another Japanese import is threatening the American economy--the golf economy. Isao Aoki (pronounced I-saho AH-oaki) is the cultured pearl of his sport.
WASHINGTON, June 14--President Carter traveled across the country this week emphasizing that cushions already in the economic system would help Americans who had lost their jobs avoid extreme financial hardship. He promised he would offer new measures if the cushions proved to be inadequate.
TOKYO, June 14 (UPI)--The body of Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira was cremated today after a private funeral attended by 3,000 friends and political allies.
WASHINGTON--Two barons of the United States Senate have joined the battle over, of all things, whether car bumpers should be made of steel or aluminum.
ALTHOUGH Benjamin Franklin achieved fulfillment in roles that few men play--statesman, scientist, author and in ventor--he suffered disappointment, ...
At 19, Fernando Bujones was dubbed the "Bad Boy of American Ballet," the result of the young dancer's outspoken views vis-a-vis the Rus sian defectors who had been given preferential treatment by American Ballet Theater at a time when Mr. Bujones had emerged as the first and only American male dancer ever to win the coveted Gold Medal at the Varna (Bulgaria) Ballet Competition.
By Easter I was, like most Parisians, overcome by a longing for a quiet country holiday. But where was I to go? The chateau hotels were ruled out by the State of my bank account, Brittany was ...
Anne Mausolff calls the Vermont hike she leads an inn-to-inn ramble, but my wife and I, after embarking on the four-day venture, called it a hike for dilettantes.
England is a peculiar place, as every visitor can see for himself, and the English are a very peculiar people. You don't even have to have been there to know it: novels will make it quite clear, and so will published letters and diaries, and so did the English ...
BEIRUT, June 14--The Palestine Liberation Organization said today that the statement by the European Economic Community that the organization be "associated with" Middle East peace negotiations did not go far enough.
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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