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In 1967, the manufacture of pianos and organs represented slightly more than 50 percent of the total assets of the company now known as the BaldwinUnited Corporation. Last year, it was about 2 percent.
ROME, Nov. 24--More than 1,000 people were killed and several thousand were injured in the earthquake last night in southern Italy, the Italian Interior Ministry said tonight.
LONDON, Nov. 24 (AP)--The Britain Government cut its minimum lending rate to banks by two percentage points, to 14 percent, today, while introducing a package of reductions in public spending and higher indirect taxes.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24--Congress is expected to approve soon a ban on the sale after 1983 of tax-exempt mortgage subsidy bonds, which have been an increasingly popular device used by states and localities to bring down the costs of home ownership.
A monthly rate increase averaging nearly 18 percent for 4.2 million individual and small-group subscribers of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater New York has been approved by Albert B. Lewis, the New York State Superintendent of Insurance, the department reported yesterday.
"MOST of the people you'll be working with," I had heard in my one-after noon orientation, "are on the psychiatric trash heap.
Ronald P. Reagan, the 22-year-old son of President-elect Ronald Reagan, and Doria Palmieri, a 29-year-old literary researcher with whom he had been living since last year, were married yesterday in a private civil ceremony in Manhattan.
Mayor Koch will ask all restaurant owners in New York City today to serve water only to those customers who request it.
WARSAW, Nov. 24--Railway workers, pressing wage demands, staged a twohour strike today in Warsaw and Gdansk, affecting commuter lines. They said they would walk out for four hours tomorrow unless a minister met with them to discuss their grievances.
A northbound motorist on the Henry Hudson Parkway who turns off at 125th Street will confront three traffic signs on a light stanchion at the bottom of the exit ramp:
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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