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CALABRITTO, Italy, Nov. 26 --Thousands of volunteers, impatient with the pace of the Government's relief effort, streamed into the mountain region east of Naples today to help the victims of Sunday's devastating earthquakes.
MOSCOW, Nov. 26--Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, told Senator Charles H. Percy in a long meeting in the Kremlin today that Moscow opposed any "stagnation" in efforts toward limiting strategic weapons.
Dozens of the nation's largest banks announced yesterday that they were increasing their prime lending rates to 17 percent from 17 percent, the fourth rise this month.
Cooper Industries Inc. of Houston and the Crouse-Hinds Company of Syracuse announced yesterday that they had agreed in principle to merge, further complicating a bitter takeover fight in which Internorth Inc. has been seeking to acquire a reluctant CrouseHinds.
Carl H. Lindner, the astute but publicity-shy Cincinnati financier, is seeking to convert his American Financial Corporation into a privately owned company, it was announced yesterday.
EVERY seven years, my husband is eligible for a sabbati cal from his duties as a professor. During three such respites, we have rented our house and moved our family to a foreign university.
A woman who has lived on the West Side of Manhattan for two years has been identified as Bernardine Dohrn, the fugitive leader of the radical Weather Underground.
Housing officials often describe the relationship between New York City's tenants and landlords as "the second most passionate on earth."
WHITE PLAINS, Nov. 26 -- Jean S. Harris, who is on trial on a charge of murdering Dr. Herman Tarnower, sought frantically to reach him by telephone before they met in a final confrontation in his bedroom, according to testimony today by Suzanne van der Vreken, the doctor's house manager.
Indonesia and Venezuela appear to be considering separate oil-price increases, it was learned yesterday, but analysts said a softer spot market would ease pressure on world prices, at least temporarily.
SALINAS, Calif.--Lettuce, it could be argued, is the staff of life in dietdedicated America. The industry likes to point out that more heads of lettuce leave the supermarket than loaves of bread or quarts of milk. And if the California growers have their way, the country will soon be consuming even more, in ever more packaged forms.
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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