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ALGIERS, Oct. 10--Two earthquakes struck northwestern Algeria today, destroying most of the city of Al Asnam, official reports said.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 10--Voters in Pennsylvania, whose 27 electoral votes make it the third biggest prize in the Presidential election, appear to be having uncommon difficulty making up their minds in 1980, weighing their choices unenthusiastically.
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 10--Three researchers in immunology, two Americans and a Frenchman, won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine today for discoveries that helped to explain how the structure of cells relates to diseases and organ transplants.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 10--Libya declared its support for Iran today in its war with Iraq as the Iraqis reportedly were moving up tanks and troops for a new bid to end the deadlock in the Khurramshahr area of the southern front.
HOT SPRINGS, Va., Oct. 10--A group of business leaders has concluded that the nation's recession is over but that any recovery will probably be extremely sluggish.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10--The signing of a Syrian-Soviet friendship treaty in Moscow Wednesday has underscored the
The New York Yankees, who had the best record in the major leagues during the regular season but who found no success thereafter, were swept out of the American League playoffs last night by the Kansas City Royals.
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Oct. 9--For the last 21 days, a division of Somali troops has been exchanging fire with a division of Ethiopian troops in a town ...
MOSCOW, Oct. 10--A dissident Soviet writer and literary scholar, Lev Z. Kopelev, said today that he and his wife had received permission from the Soviet authorities to go to West Germany for a year.
EAST BERLIN, Oct. 10--East Germany has raised the foreign exchange fees required to visit here, a move that will curtail the number of Western visitors and at the same time deal a severe blow to relations with West Germany.
NEW DELHI, Oct. 10 (Reuters)--M. Chenna Reddy resigned today as the Chief Minister of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and as the state leader of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's party, the Press Trust of India reported. The resignation of the 71-year-old leader had been sought by party members who accused him of corruption and neglecting Mrs. Gandhi's programs.
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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