Learning
Skills 801
Biographical
Information
- Information about famous people:
Historical Events
and Value of a Dollar
- Historical Events
- This
day in History: What happened on your
birthday
Select the month and day from the drop-down menu on the left
column of the page and click on go. You will see a list of
important historical events happened on this day.
- If you wish to check out historical
events happened in one specific year, try Search
by Timeline
Select the period you wish to search at the "Search by
Timeline" drop-down menu, for example "1900-1999," click on
"GO." On next page, choose the decade you wish to search at the
"Select decade" drop-down menu at left hand column and click on
"GO." Click on the actual year on next page, and you will see
important historical events happened during that particular
year. You can also try the World History Timelines site by ehistory.com, or Timeline Archive from infoplease.com.
- Historic
Events & Birthdates occuring on this day of the
year
Select the month and day from the drop-down menu and click on
"Show Event," you will see important birthdates, deaths,
reported missing in action, and important historical events
happened on your selected month and day.
- Value of a dollar
- Using the New York Times
- You can use the New
York Times Article Archive
database to search for the
citation of any article in any year between 1851-1995. Then,
use the citation to look up the actual article using the
New York Times microfilm.
- If you have a San Francisco Public
Library (SFPL) card, you can access the full image of any
N.Y. Times article from 1851 to 2001 by using the
Historical
N.Y. Times database.
Enter: "display ad" in the article title search box to limit
your search to advertisements.
- How
much is that
A site that provides comparative value covering purchasing
power, exchange rates, and other variables between the past and
today.
Career
Information
Articles
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This page is created by Kim Lim
Updated 11/12/08..