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HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 1 At Paramount Studios the name Marshall is magic. Beginning with "The Odd Couple" and followed by "Happy Days," "Laverne and Shirley" and "Mork Mindy," the Marshall family has produced some of television's most popular and longest-running series.
CHRISTOPHER HENDERSON is a blond, blue-eyed, 19 month-old boy with a rare distinction. He was enrolled in the Seton Day Care Center for Infants before he was conceived.
Mayor Koch announced yesterday that $108 million would be spent over the next five years to provide comprehensive health care in Harlem's impoverished and medically underserved neighborhoods.
"New York City's bus routes will no longer be a streetcar named confusion," City Council President Carol Bellamy said yesterday as she watched the installation of the first of 5,000 box-shaped "Guide-a-Ride" signs being placed on stanchions at bus stops in the five boroughs.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 1 Ronald Reagan says that as President he would seek to adopt a judicial selection system of the type he instituted as Governor of California, looking for nominees whose views were broadly similar to his own rather than making any single issue a litmus test.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1--With a Senate subcommittee scheduled to publish its report tomorrow on Billy Carter's activities, President Carter issued instructions to Government officials today on how to deal with members of the President's family on business matters.
Standing on the cab of a construction crane in midtown Manhattan, Ronald Reagan told a crowd of workers in hardhats yesterday that he favored construction of the long-delayed Westway, the highway proposed for Manhattan's western shore.
The Benton Foundation, owner and publisher of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, is in effect turning over the Britannica to the University of Chicago, it was learned yesterday.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 World crude oil prices an the spot market climbed by $1.50 or so a barrel again today, but the fairly heavy speculative market activity that prevailed last week has largely disappeared, according to traders and industry analysts in the United States.
A decision permitting television stations to broadcast videotapes from the first Abscam trial was issued yesterday by the Federal Court of Appeals in Manhattan, allowing what would apparently be the first broadcasts of any tapes used as evidence in a criminal trial.
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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