Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Newspaper Headlines On Your Birth Date

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Here is our weekly assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing:

1)  What was your own birth date?

2)  Find a newspaper from your hometown, or a nearby larger town or city, that was published on that date.  What was the major headline on page 1 of that issue of the newspaper?

Here's mine:

I was born in Concord, California but no local newspaper is available online. I decided to search Newspapers.com on the exact date. Multiple newspapers were covering the same news and I selected the Dayton, Ohio Journal Herald because these headlines were all easy to see on the front page.

Journal Herald (Dayton, Ohio), 26 March 1954, p. 1

“Reds Report Full Recognition for East Germany” has the Soviet Union announcing that East Germany was recognized as a fully sovereign state, while the U.S. state department claimed it a phony gesture.

“Holden and Hepburn Win Top Academy Awards” listed William Holden (for Stalag 17) and Audrey Hepburn (for Roman Holiday) winning best actor and actresses. “From Here to Eternity” won best picture.

“Excise Taxes Slashed $1 Billion by Senate; Bill Goes to Parley” had taxes slashed on furs, jewelry, luggage, cosmetics, admission tickets, telephone bills and other items. It still needed to be reconciled with the House version.

“Jon Lindberg, Son of Lone Eagle, Weds” who was the son of Brig. General Charles and Mrs. Ann Morrow Lindbergh. He married Miss Barbara Robbins, also 21 years old, on Saturday in Cook County, Illinois.

“In Strange Waters,” a story about how hard it rained and flooded Cleveland streets, that fish could be had and the little boy had proof.

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