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1980Sébastien Frey, French footballer[†]
Sébastien Frey is a French former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1980Sophia Myles, English actress[†]
Sophia Myles is an English actress. She is best known in film for portraying Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward in Thunderbirds (2004), Isolde in Tristan & Isolde (2006), Darcy in Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Erika in Underworld (2003) and Underworld: Evolution (2006) and Freya in Outlander (2008).
1980Vitaly Vishnevskiy, Russian ice hockey player[†]
Vitaly Viktorovich Vishnevskiy is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He previously played in the National Hockey League for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Atlanta Thrashers, Nashville Predators, and New Jersey Devils, as well as for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, SKA St. Petersburg and Severstal Cherepovets in the KHL.
1980Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater[†]
Alexei Konstantinovich Yagudin is a Russian former competitive figure skater. He is the 2002 Olympic champion, a four-time World champion, a three-time European champion, a two-time Grand Prix Final champion, the 1996 World Junior champion, and a two-time World Professional champion.
1980Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (born 1900)[†]
Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States. He was one of the founders of The William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York City and was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory.
1980A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people.[†]
The Vostok-2M, GRAU index: 8A92M was an expendable carrier rocket used by the Soviet Union between 1964 and 1991. Ninety-three were launched, of which one failed. Another was destroyed before launch. It was originally built as a specialised version of the earlier Vostok-2, for injecting lighter payloads into higher Sun-synchronous orbits. It was a member of the R-7 family of rockets, and the last Vostok.
CHARGES that today's young people are poorly educated and counterclaims that the schools are better than ever tend to be carried on without benefit of facts. Missing from the debate is a yardstick ...
Disappointment over President Carter's program to curb inflation battered stock prices yesterday and the market sustained its largest decline in five months.
A STUDY of some 300 barrier islands of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts concludes that Government policies that encourage development on the offshore lands are often damaging to the isles that protect the mainland's coastline, and have ...
CHICAGO, March 17 In the largest primary election of the Presidential campaign so far, Illinois voters will try to find their way through complicated ballots tomorrow in a contest that tests the ambitions of two native sons, Ronald Reagan and John B. Anderson, and offers President Carter the opportunity to pile another major defeat on the hopes of his ...
WASHINGTON, March 17 The initial burst of Congressional enthusiasm for President Carter's anti-inflation package dissipated today as some senior senators and representatives criticized the timing as well as substance of the White House program.
ALBANY, March 17 The Albany of 1980 is a place where a woman has little trouble functioning as an effective lobbyist or legislator, but it is also a place where many of the most powerful men do their wheeling and dealing in the Fort Orange Club, a century-old private organization where no women are allowed.
A powerful bomb exploded outside a Yugoslav bank office on the 30th floor of 500 Fifth Avenue at 10:59 A.M. yesterday, shattering windows and sending shards of glass down on crowds of St. Patrick's Day paradegoers and other pedestrians on 42d Street.
On a day that began as light and fair as a freckle, and that ended blustering damp as an Irish mist, the Irish and would-be Irish claimed Fifth Avenue Monday to watch their own troop by in the city's oldest celebration of ethnic pride: the St. Patrick's Day Parade.
Paul A. Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said yesterday that banks should not provide shortterm credit to borrowers who are trying to avoid raising long-term funds in the depressed capital markets.
WASHINGTON, March 17 The State Department said today that President Carter had not intended to alter American policy when he said last week that he preserved the right to renounce the nuclear arms pact if it served American interests to do so.
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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