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From: "Powell, Marcia" <mapowell@CENTRAL-CITY.K12.IA.US>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:43:33 -0600
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I have a student who is doing a project that must focus on events from =
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>within a week of her birth to a week after.  She's tried doing timeline =
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>searches, searching by the exact dates, etc., with limited success. =
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>Any hints you can give me?
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Thanks for all your help.
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Tell her to try searching for sites like "Any Day in History" which will
let you search a day and a month and then give an exhaustive search of
things of significance that happened on that day.  All she'd have to do
is plug in the dates around her birthday and pull items from her birth
year.
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There are several sites with important events on each day listed if you =
do a
Yahoo search for "this day in history"
<http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=3DThis+day+in+history>  although =
most
don't let you pick the year and some don't even let you pick the date.
You've already checked those, but I'm mentioning them for the archives =
(more
on this below).

The ScopeSystems site someone already mentioned=20
<http://www.scopesys.com/today/>  is an exception to this rule, but it =
does
not list events of every year.

Robin, the best thing I can find in my bookmarks for what you need is
"Evening News Abstracts" from Vanderbilt University, at
<http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/abstracts.html>, which goes back to August =
5,
1968, and so should suit the 18-25 year olds you're dealing with. It has
abstracts (not full text but headlines) from the major networks' evening
news broadcasts for each weekday.

(This sort of topic has come up on the list before but I'm having =
trouble
accessing the archives today.)

I'm posting most of what follows mostly for the archives since they =
don't
really meet the requirements of Robin's patrons/students, but other =
womb@s
may find them helpful or interesting:

Life magazine's web site has its covers from 1936 to 1972 (the period in
which it was published weekly) available online at
<http://pathfinder.com/Life/covers/index.html>.

(Paris-Match, a French magazine that's similar to Life and/or People, =
has a
similar feature <http://www.parismatch.tm.fr/annees/index.html>, and
includes more years, but although the interface is bilingual the covers
themselves are en francais and frequently deal with French celebrities =
nous
americains would not recognize.)

Life also has a "This Day in Life" feature which lists celebrity =
birthdays
and notable events in history for *today*
<http://pathfinder.com/Life/thisday/thisday.html>=20
You cannot enter a date, it only shows today's date, whichever date =
today
happens to be. These are some March 11 listings:

     On this day in 105, Ts'ai Lun of China invented paper.=20

     On this day in 1302, Romeo Monteveccio and Juliet Cappelleto were
married in Citadela, Italy (Shakespeare based a play on their lives).=20

(I thought those were events that librarians might find of special =
interest.)

More sites that have some historical events (but not necessarily from =
the
years you need) include:

*Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac (public radio feature)
<http://almanac.mpr.org/>

*The History Channel's "This Day in History"
<http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/>

*The Library of Congress's American Memory Home Page
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html> (at the bottom click
"Archive" to see other dates).

The Yahoo search above also lists sites for this day in ancient history,
literary history, Jewish history, Canadian history, music history, (more
particularly) rock & roll history, and movie history (that's from the =
IMDb
of course).

Hope this helps.
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I'm "reading in" some messages that I saved with sites that should
be useful. I guess the strategy is to look for the words "this da,"  or
"day in history."=20
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American Memory (Library of Congress)
        http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

        a page with lots of links
        http://www.n-polk.k12.ia.us/Pages/Departments/media/days.html

        Hyperhistory
        http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

        Today in History (Scope System)
        http://www.scopesys.com/today/

        History Channel
        http://www.historychannel.com/thisday/
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Can your student get to a library that archives old newspapers "in the
flesh" or on microfiche?  She should be able to find exactly what she =
needs
there.
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Try doing a search for Time Magazine for Kids.   I found it at Seattle =
Public Library Young Adult Services
http://www:spl.lib.wa.us/youngad/hmwork.html

then go to Youth Services, then Time for Kids.  It has an archive of =
months.

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I hit the microfilm for the local newspaper.  Low tech, but workable!
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Do you have the Chronicle of the 20th Century?
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I assume you checked First Facts by date or year.

 Another option is to go to a greeting cards store
and check out the display of cards that tell you what happened the
year you were born!
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Dorling Kindersley has a book entitled, "Chronicle of the 20th Century: =
The Ultimate Record of our Times" 0-7894-0332-3, 1995. that has bunches =
of info -=20



Marcia Powell
Central City, IA; School Technologist
mapowell@central-city.k12.ia.us
mar_pow@yahoo.com=09

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