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Your search for information on the year you were born can include books, periodical articles, online databases, and authoritative Internet resources.

American chronicle : year by year through the twentieth century / Lois Gordon and Alan Gordon ; with an introduction by Roger Rosenblatt.
Reference Stacks E169.1 .G664 1999

American decades / edited by Richard Layman.
Reference Stacks E169.12 .A42

Britannica book of the year.
Reference Stacks AE5 .E364

Chronology of the modern world, 1763 to 1992.
Reference Stacks D209 .W59 1994b

Chronology of world history
Reference Stacks D11 .M39 1999

Day by day, the forties
Reference Stacks D427 .L4

Day by day, the fifties
Reference Stacks D842.5 .M47 1979

Day by day : the sixties
Reference Stacks D840 .P27 1983

Day by day, the seventies
Reference Stacks D848 .L4 1988.

Day by day, the eighties
Reference Stacks D848 .M45 1995

Day by Day, the Nineties
Reference Stacks D858 .A93 2004

The encyclopedia of American facts and dates / Gorton Carruth.
Reference Stacks E174.5 .C3 1997

Facts on file yearbook.
Reference Stacks D410 .F3 1941

Page One : major events, 1920- ... as presented in the New York Times.
Reference Stacks D411 .P25 – 1997

This fabulous century. By the editors of Time-Life Books.
Reference Stacks E161 .T55

The timetables of history : a horizontal linkage of people and events / Bernard Grun.
Reference Stacks D11 .G78 1991

What happened when : a chronology of life and events in America : abridged edition of The encyclopedia of American facts & dates / Gorton Carruth.
Reference Stacks E174.5 .C32 1991

What happened when; a noted researcher's almanac of yesterdays / Stanford M. Mirkin.
Reference Stacks D11.5 .M57 1966

The Women’s chronology :  A Year-by-Year Record from Prehistory to the Present / James Trager.

Reference Stacks  HQ 1122 .T73 1994

The World almanac and book of facts.
Reference Stacks AY67.N5 W7

To find magazine and newspaper articles written on the date or during the year you were born, use one of the indexes listed below. If you were born after 1985 you can use the online indexes. They are available via the Library Home Page. For earlier years you must use the print indexes which are available in the Reference Stacks. If you want to see how the press covered the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics in 1980 you must use print indexes. To see how today’s historians and scholars view that boycott you can use the online indexes.

This Day in History
http://www.historychannel.com/today

Today in History
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/archive.html

World History Chronology
Click on Events (on the left); then select a sequence of years (on the right).
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

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