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1980Sean Ryan, American football player[†]
Sean P. Ryan is a former American football tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs. He was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the fifth round of the 2004 NFL draft. He played college football at Boston College.
1980Michaela Paštiková, Czech tennis player[†]
Michaela Paštiková is a retired tennis player from the Czech Republic.
1980Maksim Shevchenko, Kazakhstani footballer[†]
Maksim Igorevich Shevchenko is a Kazakhstani professional football coach and former player. He works as a deputy director at the academy of the Russian club Lokomotiv Moscow. He also holds Russian citizenship.
1980Steve Fisher, American author and screenwriter (born 1912)[†]
Stephen Gould Fisher was an American author best known for his pulp stories, novels and screenplays. He is one of the few pulp authors to go on to enjoy success as both an author in "slick" magazines, such as the Saturday Evening Post, and as an in-demand writer in Hollywood.
1980The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.[†]
Alexander L. Kielland was a Norwegian semi-submersible drilling rig that, on 27 March 1980, capsized in the Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea, killing 123 people. The capsize was the worst disaster in Norwegian waters since the Second World War. The rig, located approximately 320 km east of Dundee, Scotland, was owned by the Stavanger Drilling Company of Norway and was on hire to the U.S. company Phillips Petroleum at the time of the disaster.
A State Supreme Court jury in Manhattan yesterday convicted Nathan Giles Jr., an ex-convict who has spent nearly half his life in prison, of the 1978 murder of an obstetrics nurse.
WASHINGTON, March 26--The Governors of Utah and Nevada told Congress today that they were opposed to the Pentagon's plan to deploy a $34 billion intercontinental missile system in their states because it would create huge environmental ...
The credit squeeze on consumers tightened yesterday as two of the nation's largest lenders to individuals, the Beneficial Corporation and the Bank of America, announced cutbacks in their lending activities.
NEWARK, March 26--The 15-hour takeover of two floors of the Essex County Jail by inmates ended at dawn today with a negotiated settlement with the rioters and the release of five hostages.
ARE the existing tax credits, designed to encourage energy conservation and the development of alternative energy sources, doing their job? And, if so, are the higher tax credits now on their way through Congress really needed? Predictably, most homeowners and manufacturers of energy-saving products favor the credits, but many others find fault with them.
IF you retain a warm spot in your heart for Mickey Mouse and Charlie McCarthy, for Fiesta Ware and fringe-shaded lamp shades, you would feel right at home in the two-room apartment that Robert Heidi and John Gilman share in Greenwich Village.
BUENOS AIRES, March 26--Argentine and West German negotiators have agreed on the safeguards for construction here of a heavy-water nuclear power reactor despite objections by the United States.
Although the three Democratic contenders for the United States Senate nomination in New York this year are generally considered liberals, a poll shows they are appealing to different constituencies.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, happily thanking commuters at Grand Central Terminal for his victories Tuesday in New York and Connecticut, moved on to Washington yesterday to plan the next ...
IT sounds almost like a joke. Some of the loft spaces that gave status to square footages, 16-foot-high ceilings and open plan living are now being turned back into conventional living spaces --into apartments.
ATLANTIC CITY--Dozens of blackjack players say they have been banned from the three gambling casinos here apparently because they had had a run of luck.
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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