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1980Martin Albrechtsen, Danish footballer[†]
Martin Albrechtsen is a Danish former professional footballer who primarily played as a centre-back. He currently plays for Danish amateur club FK Prespa. He played four games for the Danish national team and is the older brother of Jacob Albrechtsen.
1980Karolina Lassbo, Swedish lawyer and blogger[†]
Karolina Charlotte Lassbo is a Swedish blogger, internet personality and lawyer.
1980Matias Concha, Swedish footballer[†]
Hernán Matias Arsenio Concha is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He started off his career with Malmö FF in 2000 and then represented Djurgårdens IF and VfL Bochum before returning to Malmö FF in 2012. A full international between 2006 and 2008, he won eight caps for the Sweden national team.
1980Kate Micucci, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress[†]
Kate Micucci is an American actress, comedian, and musician who is half of the musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates with Riki Lindhome. Some of her roles include Stephanie Gooch in Scrubs, Ally in 'Til Death, Shelley in Raising Hope, Lucy in The Big Bang Theory, Sadie Miller in Steven Universe, Sara Murphy in Milo Murphy's Law, Kelly in Hamster and Gretel, Daisy in Nature Cat, Clayface in The Lego Batman Movie, Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo since 2015, Webby Vanderquack in DuckTales, Stacey in Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, and Dr. Fox in Unikitty!
1980Michael Ryder, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Michael Glen Wayne Ryder is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. He played 12 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, Dallas Stars, and New Jersey Devils.
1980Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer[†]
Maaya Sakamoto is a Japanese actress and singer. She made her debut as a voice actress in 1992 as the voice of Chifuru in the anime Little Twins, and became known as the voice of Hitomi Kanzaki in The Vision of Escaflowne. Other major roles in anime include Leila Malcal in Code Geass: Akito the Exiled, Jeanne d'Arc in Fate/Apocrypha, Shiki Ryōgi in The Garden of Sinners, Eto in Tokyo Ghoul, Riho Yamazaki in Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective, Moe Katsuragi in Risky Safety, Princess Tomoyo in Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Haruhi Fujioka in Ouran High School Host Club, Sayaka Nakasugi in Birdy the Mighty, Ciel Phantomhive in Black Butler, Shinobu Oshino in Monogatari, Lunamaria Hawke in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, Merlin in The Seven Deadly Sins, Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell: Arise, Quinella in season 3 of Sword Art Online, and Echidna in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World.
1980Vladimír Holan, Czech poet and author (born 1905)[†]
Vladimír Holan was a Czechoslovak poet famous for employing obscure language, dark topics and pessimistic views in his poems. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in the late 1960s.
1980Jesse Owens, American sprinter and long jumper (born 1913)[†]
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who made history at the 1936 Olympic Games by becoming the first person to win four gold medals in a single Olympics. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes in track and field history.
1980The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.[†]
The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was an American Class I railroad. It was also known as the Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.
New York City braced yesterday for what could be the first shutdown of its mass transit network in 14 years.
An official of the New York Civil Liberties Union assured a group of artists in lower Manhattan recently that the Census Bureau had been "scrupulous" in pro-- tecting the data it collects. But Thea Halo remained unconvinced.
WILLIAMSBURG, Va., March 29 -- According to what one hears here, the "outside" director has won. The question of whether the nation's largest corporations should be dominated by their uppermost management or, rather, governed by boards of more independent outsiders is no longer an open issue.
With a bus and subway strike threatened for 12:01 A.M. tomorrow, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority yesterday made its first money offer. But the proposal, reported to call for a 3.5 percent increase in each year of a 34-month contract, did not come close to what the unions are seeking.
QUEBEC, March 30--There was laughter, but no defense. There were two goaltenders, but they had no help. There were 15 goals, but hardly a check or a hit. There were 79 shots on goal, accompanied by a pair of "hat tricks."
ALBANY, Monday, March 31 -- Stymied by Governor Carey and the Republi can-led Senate, Assembly Speaker Stanley Fink reversed himself abruptly last night and led his house in passing the Senate's version of the state's 1980-81 budget.
WASHINGTON, March 30 -- Harold M. Williams, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said yesterday that the turmoil in the silver markets last week was likely to have important implications for the evolution of the national market system in securities trading.
PARIS, March 30 -- More details have been announced in the French Government's plan to reduce its participation in the economy by selling to private investors part of its stake in the country's banking and insurance businesses.
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. IN the 26 baseball training camps from Arizona to Florida, time is running out for the 289 young men who were officially listed as rookies on major league rosters when spring training began four weeks ago.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 30--A second crater was discovered on the summit of Mount St. Helens late last night as clouds cleared from the top of the volcano for the first time in three days.
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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