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ON the stage of Carnegie Hall the other night, just about 90 minutes before a Frank Sina tra concert, Timothy Robinson went to work.
WASHINGTON, June 24--After more than a week of haggling between supporters of President Carter and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Democratic Party Platform Committee today adopted a 40,000-word document for the party's Presidential candidate to run on this fall.
WASHINGTON, June 24--A formal agreement preventing the closing of two New York City hospitals was signed today at a White House ceremony that indicated an easing of hostility between Mayor Koch and two Federal officials who had clashed sharply with him on the issue.
At 10:35 A.M. yesterday, 35 minutes after transportation officials gathered at Lexington Avenue and 58th Street, the driver of a gray Dodge Aspen with ...
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, June 24-- President Carter assured Yugoslavia's new collective leadership today of continued American support for its policy of nonalignment and renewed his call for a similarly nonaligned regime in Afghanistan.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Wednesday, June 25--The Thai Foreign Minister, Siddhi Savetsila, said here today that the Vietnamese incursion across the Cambodian-Thai border was continuing ...
JUST as diamonds, pearls, gold and platinum inspire unscrupulous profit-seekers to palm off fake look-alikes, so fish of rare price are frequently misrepresented both in retail markets and restaurants.
The Federal Communications Commission proposed yesterday that companies that own both a television station and a cable television system in the same area be forced to sell one or the other.
TORONTO, June 24--It was not a run-of-the-mill annual meeting. There were no graphic displays of financial performance or models of ...
"He doesn't seem like a banker," a student at the Wharton School said last year after having met Barry F. Sullivan, who at the time was executive vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank.
Test scores that have merely kept pace with the small gains of urban districts around the country and school programs that have gained only slightly in diversity are the mixed legacy of a decade of decentralization in New York City.
David M. Roderick, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, said yesterday that his company would report a profit for the present quarter and ...
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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