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ST. LOUIS WHEN he was born, on June 16, 1937, August A. Busch 3d imbibed a drop of Budweiser beer. It was the first beverage to touch his lips. This, the first of many rites of passage toward control of the family brewery, was the touch of a celebrated promoter, August A. Busch Jr.
MOSCOW, Oct. 11--Two Soviet astronauts, Leonid I. Popov and Valery V. Ryumin, returned to earth today after setting a record of 185 days in space flight aboard the orbiting station Salyut 6.
The loft apartment--once a first choice for do-it-yourselfers and a last resort for artists --has become a full-fledged segment of the housing industry in New York City.
HOUSTON, Oct. 11--In a four-hour game spiced with disputed plays, the Philadelphia Phillies rallied twice today to defeat the Houston Astros, 5-3, in 10 innings and deadlock the playoff for the National League pennant at 2-2. The deciding game is here tomorrow night.
"No game today," Rick Cerone announced, but he kept swinging his bat anyway, with no danger of injuring anybody in the nearly empty clubhouse.
BROOKHAVEN SIGNALING the heavy real-estate tax burden on the Island and the possible chaos of statewide reassessment, Brookhaven Town has been swamped with protests over real-estate assessments.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Oct. 11 --Rutgers was supposed to be another patsy for Alabama, the powerful Southeastern Conference team that had come North for a picnic at Giants Stadium today.
To connoisseurs of mountains, the most spectacular segment of the Rockies is not in the United States but in the Canadian province of Alberta. The pride of Americans may be hurt by the discovery that they do not own the choicest section of the great Cordillera, but those who suppress their chagrin long enough to visit Canada's Banff ...
AFTER a long summer marked by breakdowns, shortages and overcrowding on Conrail commuter trains, there is sharp disagreement among the railroad's labor and management representatives over just why the system is having difficulties in maintaining its sophisticated new equipment.
WASHINGTON THE thousands of New Jersey ans attending college in the state and elsewhere, and their parents, have received a pre Christmas gift of sorts from the Federal Government.
GHENT, N.Y.--The cow barns-- long, squat buildings made of thin corrugated steel--are rusting on Morris Levy's 1,200-acre farm. The milking machines stand useless in the dark and dank milking parlor. The dairy cattle are gone.
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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