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1980Karsten Forsterling, Australian rower[†]
Karsten Forsterling is an Australian former representative rower. He was a national champion, world champion, a dual Olympian and Olympic medal winner. He represented Australia at eight senior world rowing championships between 2002 and 2019 in both sculling and sweep oared boats.
1980Lee Kyung-won, South Korean badminton player[†]
Lee Kyung-won is a badminton player from South Korea. Lee was the women's doubles gold medallist at the 2002 Asian Games. She competed at the Olympic Games in 2000, 2004, and 2008, winning women's doubles bronze in 2004, and silver in 2008. She captured the women's doubles gold at the Asian Championships in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Lee educated at the Sungji Girls' Middle School, Sungji Girls' High School, and graduated from the Yong In University.
1980Nana Mizuki, Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress[†]
Nana Kondō , better known by the stage name Nana Mizuki , is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and narrator. She is represented by the agency StarCrew. Mizuki was trained as an enka singer, releasing one single under her birth name in 1993 and made her debut as a voice actress in 1996. Her prominent roles include Hinata Hyuga in the long-running ninja series Naruto as well in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Tamao Tamamura in Shaman King 2001 and 2021, Colette Brunel in Tales of Symphonia, Fate Testarossa in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha, Tsubasa Kazanari in Symphogear, Moka Akashiya in Rosario + Vampire, Tsubomi Hanasaki in Heartcatch Precure! and Ann Takamaki in Persona 5. She also had official dubbing roles in live action version of Itazura na Kiss from Korea and Taiwan, as well in Hunger Games film series as Katniss Everdeen. She is also famous for dubbing roles portrayed by Taiwanese actress, Ariel Lin.
1980Xavier Pons, Spanish rally diver[†]
Xavier "Xevi" Pons Puigdillers is a Spanish rally driver who competed in the World Rally Championship from 2003 to 2014.
1980Iran Air Flight 291 crashes in the Alborz Mountains while on approach to Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran, killing 128 people.[†]
Iran Air Flight 291 was a flight from Mashad Airport to Tehran-Mehrabad Airport that crashed on 21 January 1980 during its approach to Tehran-Mehrabad runway 29 in foggy and snowy weather conditions, killing all 128 people on board. At the time, Iran Air Flight 291 was the deadliest aircraft disaster in Iranian history.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 20 Iraq will maintain its current high level of oil production this year to help developing countries, not to make up for the decline in Iranian production, senior officials in the oil ministry have disclosed.
A State Supreme Court justice has held that New York City bears a share of the liability for damages which could total millions of dollars in the 1973 collapse of the former Broadway Central Hotel. Four persons were killed in the collapse, and about 40 people were injured.
Officials of the United States Olympic Committee said yesterday that they interpreted President Carter's proposal that the Olympic Games be transferred from the Soviet Union as an indication that the United States would go through the "proper channels" in such an effort. The officials said that they would therefore try to enlist the support of other nations to move the Games.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 Two weeks after President Carter placed a partial embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union, the program to ease the impact on farmers remains mired in technical difficulties and threatens both to place a drain on the Federal Treasury and to raise food prices for consumers, according to Administration and private experts.
LONDON, Jan. 20 With the Marsh McLennan Companies considering whether to go ahead with a hostile bid for the C.T. Bowring Company, Bowring executives may be musing about how disloyalty was punished in centuries past.
PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 20 They had to battle off the ropes in the fourth quarter to do it again, but the winners and still undefeated champions of Super Bowls are the Pittsburgh Steelers.
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Jan. 20--President Tito's left leg was amputated at noon today to avoid a spread of gangrene that jeopardized his life, his doctors announced.
The New York Region Econometric Model developed by the Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates of Philadelphia is a computer program that uses 1,500 equations and 1,400 variables to define the interaction of the economy of the metropolitan area and its relationship to the rest of the nation.
PASADENA, CALIF. WHEN the third quarter ended Sunday in Super Bowl XIV, the Los Angeles Rams were leading the Pittsburgh Steelers, 19-17, and as the offensive unit moved to the other end of the field, Fred Dryer stood on the sideline and surveyed the situation.
PASADENA, CALIF. TERRY BRADSHAW seemed to have a tennis ball in his cheek, yet he kept stuffing more eating tobacco into the bulge. "My Christian brethren," said the bornagain Christian, "don't like my chewing tobacco."
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 The Carter Administration has informed Egypt that it will ask Congress to approve an additional $1.1 billion in military credits over the next two years to allow Egypt to buy F-16 fighter planes and other sophisticated American military equipment, officials said today.
Word has been sent to Bogota and Rabat. Negotiations are under way with Uganda and South Korea. Columbia University is not pleased; neither is New York University.
I was wondering if anything interesting on the news was going on when I was born, and decided to create this website for fun. The purpose is to show people what was going on when they were born. With this website I've found out that it was a pretty slow news day on my birthday, but I bet it would feel cool to know a historical event happened on your birthday.
The data used in this project is provided by the New York Times API. They have by far the best API I was able to find, with articles dating back to the 1950s. There weren't any other major newspapers that had an API with close to as much data. The closest was the Guardian API, but theirs only went back to the 1990s. I decided to only use articles from the New York Times because their API was by far the best. This tool works if you have a birthday after the 1950s or so.
Some important dates in history I'd recommend looking up on this website are:
These historical events are just a few examples of the fascinating moments in history you can explore through this tool. Whether you're interested in your own birthday, significant historical dates, or just curious about what was making headlines on any given day, this website offers a unique window into the past through the lens of contemporary news coverage.
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