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1980Kerry Jeremy, Antiguan cricketer[†]
Kerry Clifford Bryan Jeremy is a cricketer. He played six One Day Internationals for West Indies from 2000 to 2001.
1980Konnor, American wrestler[†]
Ryan Parmeter is an American professional wrestler, He is best known for his work in WWE, where he wrestled under the ring name Konnor. He was part of the fourth season of NXT, and earned fourth place on the show's fifth season, NXT Redemption.he also competed in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where he performed under the ring name Kon.
1980Ben Lawson, Australian actor[†]
Ben Lawson is an Australian actor. From 2006 until 2008, he played Frazer Yeats in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. The role earned him a Logie Award nomination. Lawson has since appeared in several American television series, including The Deep End, Covert Affairs, and Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23. In 2011, he starred opposite Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher in the film No Strings Attached. From 2017 to 2018, he starred as Damien Rennett on the ABC political drama Designated Survivor. He also played baseball coach Rick Wlodimierzin in the second season of 13 Reasons Why, and Larry Hemsworth on The Good Place. Lawson portrays Lachlan Murdoch in the 2019 film Bombshell, alongside his brother Josh Lawson who played James Murdoch. He also starred in the Netflix series Firefly Lane (2021-2023).
1980Kim Poirier, Canadian actress, singer, and producer[†]
Kim Jacinthe Poirier is a Canadian actress, singer, film producer, and television host.
1980Luke Ravenstahl, American politician, 58th Mayor of Pittsburgh[†]
Luke Robert Ravenstahl is an American politician who served as the 59th Mayor of Pittsburgh from 2006 until 2014. A Democrat, he became the youngest mayor in Pittsburgh's history in September 2006 at the age of 26. He was among the youngest mayors of a major city in American history.
PARIS, Feb. 5--France and West Germany issued a joint call today for a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan "without delay."
CAIRO, Feb. 5--Saudi leaders told American officials today that they are now willing to consider closer military cooperation with the United States in the Persian Gulf region in order to offset the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5--The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been trying to determine whether Senator Howard W. Cannon, the Nevada Democrat, was illegally influenced in handling trucking deregulation legislation by a Chicago ...
The Federal investigation that has produced charges that Congressmen were involved in bribery widened yesterday with new allegations linking Senator Harrison A. Williams Jr. of New Jersey to a casino project in Atlantic City.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5--The State Department, in its annual report to Congress on human rights conditions around the world, today made public a long list of human rights abuses by Pakistan. The Administration is trying to rebuild military cooperation with Pakistan and has offered it $400 million in economic and arms aid.
Original prints of the first accurate chart of the Gulf Stream, prepared in 1769-70 by Benjamin Franklin to speed the trans-Atlantic mails and thought to have been lost for nearly 200 years, have been found in libraries in Paris and London.
The head of the Federal agency responsible for the health and safety of American workers has expressed surprise and concern that a Government regulation mandating genetic screening in industry has been in effect for six years without the knowledge of key Government officials or their advisers.
More than a dozen immigration lawyers and consultants and present and former employees of the New York office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service are targets of a Federal investigation centering on the bribing of Government officials to process immigration papers, according to law-enforcement sources.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 5-- "Thou art the help of the prisoner in the dungeon, the storm-tossed on the sea," intoned Rabbi Daniel Polish, at a 45minute interfaith service today for the families of the 50 hostages held in the United States Embassy in Teheran.
In the lobby of the United States Mission to the United Nations, a brass-letter roster still lists Andrew Young as the chief American delegate to the United Nations. What with Iran and Afghanistan on the agenda at the world organization across the street, no one has gotten around to updating the plaque.
DAMASCUS, Syria, Feb. 5--President Hafez al-Assad of Syria said today that he would wait "some time" before carrying out his suddenly announced decision to pull Syrian peacekeeping troops out of Beirut.
SAN SALVADOR, Feb. 5 (UPI)-- Armed leftists seized the Spanish Embassy and El Salvador's Education Ministry today, taking an undetermined number of hostages, including the Spainish Ambassdor.
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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