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1980Alayna Burns, Australian track cyclist[†]
Alayna Burns is an Australian track cyclist.
1980Michelle McCool, American wrestler[†]
Michelle Leigh Calaway is an American retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, where she is a two-time WWE Women's Champion, as well as the first WWE Divas Champion. She is a WWE Hall of Famer, class of 2025.
1980Xavi, Spanish footballer[†]
Xavier Hernández Creus, commonly known as Xavi Hernández or simply Xavi, is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who most recently managed La Liga club Barcelona. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Xavi is renowned for his exceptional passing, vision, and positioning. Xavi spent most of his playing career at Barcelona. With the initial management guidance by Pep Guardiola and using the tiki-taka football philosophy, Xavi was part of a widely lauded midfield combination trio with Andrés Iniesta and Sergio Busquets; from 2008 to 2015 the trio together were instrumental in FC Barcelona's exceptional on-field successes in 7 seasons, winning five La Liga titles, three Copa del Rey titles and three UEFA Champions League titles, including two continental trebles in 2008–09 and 2014–15.
1980Mother Teresa is honored with India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.[†]
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and is a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, she was raised in a devoutly Catholic family. At the age of 18, she moved to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto and later to India, where she lived most of her life and carried out her missionary work. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The anniversary of her death, 5 September, is now observed as her feast day.
WEST POINT, N.Y., Jan. 24--More than half of the first women to graduate from the United States Military Academy will be assigned to combat branches, mostly at their own request. They will, however, be barred by law from specialties likely to involve close combat.
Patricia Koppmann, the South Dakota housewife who last year filed a lawsuit against her state Blue Shield organization after it refused to pay her surgical claims for breast reconstruction after cancer surgery, said yesterday that the company had changed its policy and that all of her claims had been paid.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24--Politically as well as diplomatically, President Carter's State of the Union Address was a forceful stroke that has added for the moment to the momentum of his victory Monday night in Iowa and complicated the task of his opponents.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24--The House voted overwhelmingly today to support President Carter's request that the United States press for the transfer, cancellation or boycott of the Olympic Games in Moscow this summer.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (AP)--New orders received by United States factories for durable goods rose a modest six-tenths of 1 percent in December, but auto orders continued to drop, the Commerce Department said today.
Texaco Inc. reported yesterday that its fourth-quarter profit rose 62.6 percent, and the Gulf Oil Corporation announced a 54.4 percent increase.
"What's it good for?" asked Stuart Pivar incredulously, looking somewhat put off yesterday because the quintessence of his Moped-inspired electric Microcar was not immediately comprehended by his audience.
Prominent feminists and the leaders of various women's groups reacted cautiously yesterday to the prospect that women might be required to register for the draft. Most opposed the idea of draft registration for either men or women but added that in the event of registration, women should not be exempted.
The Chrysler Corporation, in an effort to increase sagging sales, has announced an innovative marketing program that includes a 30-day or 1,000mile money-back guarantee and payments of $50 to people who test-drive its cars, as long as they buy some brand of car.
Like a glittering magnet, the soaring price of gold has sucked old jewelry from dresser drawers and drawn eager sellers to 47th Street, Manhattan's jewelry and diamond center. The object is to transform old jewelry into new cash. But as things turn out, it is hard to pin down the price, or even the weight of what one has to sell.
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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