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WASHINGTON, June 19--The United States has agreed to sell Jordan 100 M-60 tanks with advanced armament, Carter Administration officials said today.
AMONG the many requests that have come to this column in the last four years, the most frequent has been for the name of the best French restaurant in town. Right now, the most accurate and complete answer to such a request would have to be La Grenouille, Le Cygne and Lutece, each different in style, mood and, perhaps, ...
BAKERSFIELD, Calif.--Leon Pitts, a Bakersfield businessman, took off in the dark clouds swirling over Meadows Field here on a rainy Monday evening recently.
Stock prices plunged yesterday as the market ended its recent pattern of marginal gains. Declines outnumbered advances by a ratio of more than 2 to 1.
HEFEI, China, June 15--Since a local peasant rebellion gave birth to the Ming dynasty in the 14th century, the people of Anhui Province have had a saying: "In every 10 years, there is only one good harvest." The rest of the time there is drought or floods.
WASHINGTON, June 19--Analysis of fossil remains uncovered in ancient rocks in the remote and arid reaches of northwestern Australia has revealed them to be the oldest biological cells ever found on earth, scientists said in an announcement released today.
Some basic individual rights--to privacy, free expression, due process and vital information--are still being violated in a number of American work places, according to Government, union and corporate officials, and labor and legal experts.
A New York City transit officer was killed with his own gun early yesterday when a man he was escorting from the Columbus Circle subway station shot him in the head.
ROME, June 19--President Carter arrived in Italy tonight for a visit during which, he said, he would be totally frank with the leaders from Western Europe, Japan and Canada in seeking "to sustain world opposition to Soviet aggression."
Landlords of rent-stabilized apartments in New York City said yesterday that they would seek increases of 17 percent on one-year lease renewals, 23.5 percent for two-year renewals and 30.5 percent for three-year renewals.
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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