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THIS summer's severe drought has resulted in a premature shedding of leaves by deciduous trees in the northeastern United States.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15--The Carter Administration is facing the sensitive question of whether to increase production of bomb-grade plutonium at the very time the United States is discouraging foreign governments from acquiring stockpiles of such materials.
The opening of trading on the Chicago Board of Trade had to be delayed 45 minutes yesterday to clear the books of last Friday's volume, which shattered several records.
Federal census takers may have missed as many as 15 percent of New York City's 827,000 welfare recipients, city officials said yesterday.
MILWAUKEE WHEN Dawn Holstein, a determined 12-year-old, entered junior high school in Racine, Wis., last fall, she was scared.
New York State's wine retailers yesterday were in what some called a price war. Others called it "discount pricing." Prices on some large-volume wines were as much as 30 percent below those a week ago, when the State Court of Appeals invalidated the state law providing minimum prices for wines.
MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Sept. 15-- James L. Buckley and Christopher J. Dodd, facing each other for the first time in their campaign for the United States Senate, offered divergent views today on how to deal with the energy problem, inflation and most everything else.
The families of the 52 American hostages in Iran have written to the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament "privately as parents, wives and children" to ask if there was any way in which they could help end the captivity that began Nov. 4.
It is being billed as the fiercest battle in semiconductors since circuit designers first learned to store computer data on silicon chips more than a decade ago.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15--Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie said today that it would be wrong for hopes to be raised for an early resolution of the hostage crisis in Iran in light of recent statements by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and other Iranian leaders.
ELKHART, Ind.--In the 1920's, Eddie Jarrett played a saxophone for the big bands. Today, he is president of the local musicians' union and spends his weekends and evenings directing his own small band.
The Dime Savings Bank of New York has begun offering a new kind of mortgage on which the interest could change once a year in line with general interest-rate trends.
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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