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Wondering if anything interesting on the news was going on when you were born?
The purpose of this website is to show people what was going on when they were born. 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.
Love this,seeing the news from the day you were born makes history feel personal and real.
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Really true! For me was surprising to see the first block mentioned on it!
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