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YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, Dec. 28--New York City's winter starts way up here.
In its final days, the 1980 Christmas shopping season, which had stumbled through its first three weeks, erupted into a wave of buying that carried over into the post-holiday weekend, despite frigid, raw weather in many parts of the country.
CHICAGO, Dec. 28--Plagued by a staggering debt load, climbing interest rates, weak markets and high-cost plants, officials of International Harvester, nevertheless, expect to muddle ...
OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 28--It took Oakland most of the first half to get going today, but once under way, there was no stopping the Raiders.
Reacting to public criticism of the state's role in mental health care, Governor Carey has blamed the Koch adminis tration for the worsening plight of the homeless and mentally ill in New York City.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28--Presidentelect Ronald Reagan said today that Iran's request for the immediate payment of billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets as part of an agreement for eventually freeing the 52 American hostages was unacceptable.
IRVING, Tex., Dec. 28--If a playoff game and a possible end to their season were not enough to motivate the Dallas Cowboys, there were the yellow Ram horns across the line of scrimmage and the memory of an embarrassing 24-point loss two Monday nights ago.
PEKING, Monday, Dec. 29--The prosecution today demanded the death sentence for Mao Zedong's widow, Jiang Qing, in a quick conclusion of its case against the "Gang of Four" and six codefendants on charges of treason during the Cultural Revolution.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28--The United States made public today the formal proposals it had sent to Iran over the last two months for the release of the American hostages and said they represented a practical, realistic way to meet Iran's concerns consistent with American law and honor.
For 28 years, the police and prosecutors in eight countries have been compiling dossiers on a man who now calls himself Eduardo Rabi--while he was living in penthouses in New York, riding antique Rolls-Royces in South America, gambling in the casinos of Monte Carlo, mixing with the best society in Paraguay and Uruguay and allegedly getting away with $60 million in swindles.
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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