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President-elect Ronald Reagan spent the day in New York City yesterday, leaving the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the gloomy gray streets only twice, once to visit Terence Cardinal Cooke and once for a private dinner with a group of civic leaders.
Heating oil prices, which have risen 6 cents a gallon in the last few months, are expected to increase even more sharply in the next three months, possibly by as much as 20 cents, oil industry analysts said yesterday.
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WARSAW, Dec. 9--Leaders of a newfarmers movement, which says it represents 500,000 of Poland's 3.5 million private farmers, called today for a national meeting on Sunday to plan some form of protest action to force the authorities to register the movement as an independent union.
DURING the holiday season you would like to have a party and have 20, 30 or 40 friends over, but you are not sure how to feed that many people. The answer is simple: The easiest, fastest and least expensive way of receiving people is to set up a buffet.
WASHINGTON WITH the recent conservative gains in Congress, the long-simmering controversy over the Delaney clause, a rarely invoked but potent legal provision that prohibits any cancer-causing additive in food or food products, promises to heat up.
An art collection rich in paintings of the Abstract Expressionist school and valued at $12 million to $15 million will be given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by a Chicago collector, Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman.
Having been thrown together three years ago by New York City voters, Mayor Koch and Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin have apparently decided that they might as well govern together in harmony.
SAN SALVADOR, Dec. 9--The American Ambassador here charged today that a report by President-elect Reagan's transition team that urged a reduction in the influence of human rights advocates in the State Department was undercutting him in El Salvador.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9--The Supreme Court ruled today, 5 to 4, that the constitutional protection against double jeopardy does not bar the prosecution from appealing a sentence it regards as too lenient.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9--The Senate tonight overwhelmingly approved, 80 to 3, a three-year extension of the Federal revenue-sharing program that would provide local governments with $4.6 billion annually but would allot money to states only in the fiscal years 1982 and 1983.
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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