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Among the panting joggers in Central Park yesterday morning, 20 applecheeked nature enthusiasts rambled the frigid fields peering into shrubs in what has become one of New York City's hardiest holiday traditions--the Audubon Society's Christmas count of the park's bird life.
Two powerful pipe bombs exploded 13 minutes apart in an unoccupied public locker room at Pennsylvania Station last night, forcing a temporary shutdown of Amtrak and Long Island Rail Road operations and the evacuation of hundreds of passengers, railroad employees and others from the station.
TOKYO, Dec. 21--Amid bullish official projections of economic growth next year, the Japanese Government approved the most austere national budget in 22 years.
While most of the recent focus on the Chrysler Corporation has been on its attempts to raise operating cash, analysts remark that the auto maker also is faced with another, less-publicized ...
As the Reagan transition team continues the closed-door meetings, confidential consultations and trial-balloon floating that typically accompany the Cabinet-selection process, an unanswered mystery is why the country's ...
A program by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater New York to reduce surgery by encouraging patients to get opinions from second physicians has instead increased both surgery and hospital costs, according to a Blue Cross survey.
Marc Connelly, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Green Pastures," one of the great plays of the American theater, died yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan. He was 90 years old.
Transit Authority mechanics, hoping to get additional buses on the city streets tomorrow were busy yesterday tuning up the 100 buses that arrived in New York City after an arduous daylong trip from Washington. The vehicles are being
SAN DIEGO JOHN JEFFERSON did not pay attention to the slender stranger who stood unobtrusively at the edge of a pack of sportswriters.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Dec. 21 --The Oakland Raiders, some laughing, left for the National Football League playoffs after a two-year absence. The Giants, some with tears in their eyes, began to clean out their lockers after they had extended their playoff absence to 17 years.
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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