Re: Source for events on your actual brithday

[Peter Milbury <pmilbury@ERICIR.SYR.EDU>]

On Thu, 1 May 1997, Joan Turner wrote:
> Does anyone know of a source where students can find out what actually
> happened on their birth date?  I know "Day in History" and "Scopesy"
> gives things that happened on a certain day but it's for many different
> years.  Is there any way a student could look up his actual day of birth,
> e.g. Sept. 3, 1982?  TIA

Yes, indeed! The Online Christian Science Monitor allows searching by
date. (The database seems to go back to at least 1980!) I love it, and am
grateful to that wonderful organization for making it freely available.

Location: http://www.csmonitor.com/
Go to the Archives, from the main page. The following is from their
"Search Help" file.

**Dates
  OK, enough of techno-thriller writers. Let's suppose you're passionately
interested in the Reagan years, and you want to do some searches by dates.
The best way is to use the ED section of the story header. The search
  engine will recognize these forms: ED= , ED> , ED< , ED>=, and ED<=.

  Examples:
               Want to find articles from a specific date?
               Type ED=19821201
               (returns all articles dated Dec. 1, 1982)

This is one of my all time favorites!

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