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FAMILY calendars show that this is the season for bringing parents and teachers together, with grade meetings, open school week, curriculum nights and individual conferences scheduled at grade schools and high schools throughout the city and suburbs.
The stock market, ecstatic over Ronald Reagan's landslide victory, exploded yesterday, with prices surging in the heaviest trading on record.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5--Perhaps there has never been a President-designate who so clearly enjoyed or so thoroughly depended on the sound of his own voice--not as a matter of vanity so much as in the sense that the lawyer depends on his books of statutes and the surgeon on his hands.
Republicans captured control of the Senate early yesterday for the first time in 26 years in a victory likely to elevate many veteran conservatives, including Barry Goldwater and Strom Thurmond, to influential committee chairmanships.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 5--Within a week of his inauguration as President in January, Ronald Reagan will issue executive orders calling for a "minimum of a 2 percent cut across the board" in the spending by Federal departments and agencies and for a freeze on Federal hiring, according to his closest advisers.
Wall Street and the business community welcomed the election of Ronald Reagan yesterday, amid predictions that the President-elect would oversee the most probusiness administration since that of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
IT seemed at first to be simply a perfect decorating job--glossy, glamorous rooms with mirrorlined walls, softly carpeted floors and perfectly arranged furnishings.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5--Ronald Reagan's sweeping victory has stunned foreign policy officials in the Carter Administration and left them uncertain about how to deal with a number of issues in the two and a half months left to them.
With an amalgam of caution, concern and a touch of hopefulness, government officials in the New York metropolitan region began yesterday to evaluate the likely effects of a Reagan Administration on the Federal programs that their states and cities depend on for survival.
Prices of home heating oil continued to edge upward yesterday, when recent penny-a-gallon increases by other suppliers were matched by the Exxon Corporation, a prime supplier to the East Coast market, and the Amoco Oil Company.
WHITE PLAINS, Nov. 5--Consolidated Edison announced today that it would keep its damaged Indian Point 2 nuclear plant out of service at least until next June.
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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