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WASHINGTON, Nov. 7--Producer prices rose by eight-tenths of 1 percent in October, equal to a 10.6 percent compounded annual rate.
Steve McQueen, whose portrayals of the tough, macho loner made him one of the most celebrated and highest-paid film stars of the 1960's and 70's, died yesterday in a hospital in Juarez, Mexico.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Nov. 7--Israel has abandoned its longstanding resistance to a pact barring nuclear weapons in the Middle East and plans to introduce its own plan Tuesday to achieve this goal, Israeli diplomats disclosed today.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7--Presidentelect Ronald Reagan has a plan to give offices to all his Cabinet members in the Executive Office Building next to the White House to emphasize their closeness and allegiance to him as President rather than to the various departments they will run.
Nearly 200 works of modern art valued at more than $4 million have been given to the Yale University Art Gallery, with an unusual additional gift of more than $2 million for its maintenance and housing and for further purchases by the gallery.
WARSAW, Nov. 7--Stanislaw Kania, the Polish Communist Party leader, said in a speech published today that the newly conferred right to strike was being abused and warned against use of the independent trade union movement by counterrevolutionaries to sow discontent and attack Communism.
ROBINSON, W.Va., Nov. 7--Five miners were trapped deep in a coal mine near here today after a predawn explosion that filled the narrow mine shaft with dense, toxic smoke. Officials said this afternoon that their chances of rescue were diminishing.
An Amtrak passenger train bound for New York City was struck head on by a 106-car Conrail freight train near Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., yesterday afternoon, injuring scores of passengers. Nearly 12,000 outbound commuters were delayed in tieups spawned by the wreck.
NAPLES, Nov. 7 (UPI)--A gunman shot and killed a Communist Party official today as he left his home for work, the police said. They identified the victim as Domenico Beneventano, 32 years old, a Communist member of the town council of Vesuviano di Ottaviano, near Naples.
NICOSIA, Cyprus, Nov. 7 (UPI)--A British Royal Air Force Canberra aircraft crashed while taking off from Akrotiri Air Base in southern Cyprus today, killing the two crewmen.
KARACHI, Pakistan, Nov. 7--President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq recently gave a dinner party in Lahore for several hundred architects and their wives who had assembled from all over the world for an award ceremony.
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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