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WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI)-- The House overwhelmingly approved today a $20 billion commitment to harness nuclear fusion, the energy process that powers the Sun, with the goal of providing the nation with a virtually limitless energy source.
More than any developer of his generation, 34-year-old Donald J. Trump has succeeded over the last decade in reshaping the skyline of Manhattan. Taking advantage of political connections, a large family fortune and a salesman's aggressive optimism, he has effectively influenced the changing character of midtown.
KAMPALA, Uganda, Aug. 20--There is supposed to be an election here in six weeks, the first in Uganda in 18 years, but Sept. 30, the scheduled voting day, is likely to pass without a vote being cast, and one of the saddest stories in Africa will continue without an ending in sight.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25--Ronald Reagan today abandoned his proposal to convert the American liaison office on Taiwan into an official United States Government office and acknowledged that he had made misstatements in the period preceding his Vice-Presidential nominee's trip to China.
PRAGUE, Aug. 25--The Czechoslovak Communist Party warned its factory committees today to pay closer attention to workers' interests, apparently reflecting growing concern over the labor unrest in neighboring Poland.
Representative Michael O. Myers of Pennsylvania said yesterday that he had acted improperly in accepting $50,000 from Federal undercover agents posing as representatives of influence-buying Arab sheiks, but he insisted that he had not committed a crime.
FIGHT months after it was implemented, advocates and critics of New York's so-called "truth-in-testing" law remain divided over the measure's impact, even though test makers have provided more than 30,000 students with their answer sheets, along with a set of questions and correct answers, for the various standardized admissions tests for college and graduate school.
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation was fined $325,000 yesterday on criminal charges that it had used secret funds to pay more than $400,000 in bribes to obtain ship repair business.
A $380 million takeover bid by one branch of the Bronfman family of Canada for both McIntyre Mines and Falconbridge Nickel Mines apparently collapsed yesterday--less than a week after it began.
EVERY year about now, the hay fever sufferer--stopped up, teary, sneezy and looking ahead to September as if it were a jail sentence--prays for an early frost and a fall filled with cleansing rain.
For more than a decade, it was one of the least known parts of the J.C. Penney Company.
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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