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ARLINGTON, Va. Aug. 18 A major study of the nation's fuel prospects has found that American motorists are likely to have all the gasoline they need provided the nation works toward more-efficient cars and the development of synthetic fuels.
"THOSE who do not understand English are certain to find their classroom experi ences wholly incomprehensible and in no way meaningful."
WEIRTON, W. Va.--"Make no mistake, the future of the steel industry and our entire industrial base in the Ohio Valley is in jeopardy," George J. Arnold, the president of the Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, warned an audience of 300 local officials, business people, union ...
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Many hightechnology plants built over the last decade to transform household garbage into a new source of energy through a variety of processes are failing to fulfill hopes ...
GDANSK, Poland, Aug. 18 The conference hall in the center of the Gdansk shipyard, smoke-filled and smelling of sweat, is the nerve center of a strike movement that has spread to ...
A convicted swindler who helped devise the methods used in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Abscam inquiry into political corruption testified yesterday that he had been paid $3,000 a month plus ...
Two spectators were killed and two other people were seriously injured early yesterday when a car competing in an illegal drag race down a Queens street careered out of control and plowed into a crowd of 200 spectators.
PATRICIA PRINCE speaks with bitterness of the reasons for her exile. The torments that drove her to move from an urban environment to the northern California coast in cluded debilitating weakness, coughing up blood, gasping, failed memory, mental confusion.
Stock prices took their sharpest plunge in almost five months yesterday as concern over the prospects of higher interest rates unsettled the market.
As Peter Stuyvesant slept on in a vault below, Carlos Garcia, a 23year-old crew chief, began raising a new bell to the steeple of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery yesterday, along with seven other hard-hatted ...
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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