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Over the last 35 years, Bob Wilber, the jazz saxophonist, has been identified with Sidney Bechet and with Johnny Hodges.
Less than a year after New York voters approved a $500 million transportation bond issue, the possibility of a new bond issue was raised yesterday by Richard Ravitch, the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
PARIS, Aug. 21 French Navy tugboats equipped with water cannons sailed into the Mediterranean port of Fos tonight in an attempt to break the blockade of the port by striking fishing trawlers.
METUCHEN, N.J. A walk down the underbody assembly lines at Ford Motor Company's plant here conveys a vivid impression of just how complicated an automobile is and how much planning and investment goes into a factory capable of producing new cars at the rate of almost one a minute.
IF you are caught in the city this weekend, wishing you could be away in the country, you have an option. That glorious and occasionally shabby swath of country-in-thecity, Central Park, will enfold you in greenery and let you be yourself in any one of scores of ways, or it will let you watch others in the act of being themselves.
The Mobil Oil Corporation emerged yesterday as the winning bidder for the huge oil holdings of Esmark Inc. with a surprise offer of some $715 million, oil industry sources said yesterday.
ROLAND PETIT is back in New York after a long absence. His Ballet National de Marseilles made its American debut on Wednesday at the Uris Theater with "The Bat," Mr. Petit's suitably frivolous full-evening ...
WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (AP) Orders for durable goods at United States manufacturing companies rose 8.4 percent in July, ending a five-month decline, the Commerce Department reported today.
CHICAGO, Aug. 21 Joyce Miller, president of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, was named today to the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. She is the first woman to serve on the council since the federation was formed, nearly 25 years ago.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 The Carter Administration's long struggle to come to terms with this year's economic hot topic "industrial policy" ...
BOSTON, Aug. 21 President Carter said today that the United States could win an arms race if it had to, and he answered Republican attacks on his record by saying that his military policies had strengthened the nation without the risk of all-out weapons competition.
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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