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WASHINGTON, Nov. 13--Senator Jacob K. Javits, facing the by-now-unfamiliar prospect of life without an important role in the Federal Government, said today that he would consider any offer of a post from President-elect Ronald Reagan, but that none had been offered.
Warner Amex Cable Communications Inc. yesterday was awarded its Second major metropolitan cable television franchise in the past three weeks when the Cincinnati City Council voted 6 to 3 to give the company the right to wire the city's 161,000 homes.
IT has a ring of chauvinism, but the claim is true. New York City is indeed the dance capital of the world, and this weekend it lives up to its reputation with dance of all persuasions at theaters all over New York.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13--The game is called Waiting for Reagan, and almost everyone in the Federal bureaucracy is playing it these days.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13--President Carter and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel emerged from a nostalgic White House meeting today and stressed the importance of pursuing the negotiations on Palestinian autonomy despite the pending change in administrations.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13--Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie has proposed to President Carter that the United States increase, to about $900 million, the amount of grain that could be sold to Poland in 1980-81 on Government-backed credits, Administration officials said today.
In another move toward blurring the line between banks and brokerage firms, Merrill Lynch Company has applied to make small-business loans under the Small Business Administration's guaranteed loan program.
The stock market, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial averege, climbed 17.49 points yesterday to close at 982.42, its highest level in more than three and a half years. Buoyed by increased institutional buying, the market's latest upsurge brought this week's four-day advance to 50 points.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13--The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved a three-year extension of the Federal revenue-sharing program that would provide local governments with $4.6 billion annually, but it left indefinite whether revenue-sharing funds would continue to go to state governments.
WEST NEW YORK, N.J., Nov. 13--Last spring tens of thousands of Cuban refugees survived a perilous flight from their country in small boats and, with the help of an earlier surge of immigrants, many of them settled here and in neighboring Union City.
DETROIT, Nov. 13--Sales by the nation's Big Three auto makers, buoyed by the introduction of 1981 models, rose 5.2 percent in the first 10 days of November compared with the period last year.
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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