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In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]
1980Avi Benedi, Israeli singer and songwriter[†]
Avi Benedi is an Israeli singer and songwriter. He has released three albums: Avi Benedi & Diamond Band in 2001, We Met Late in 2012. and Loco in 2017.
1980Adam Fleming, Scottish journalist[†]
Robert Adam Fleming is a Scottish journalist and presenter for BBC News. Adam currently resides in London. He was formerly its Chief Political correspondent, Brussels correspondent, and has previously worked for Daily Politics and Newsround. He co-presented the podcast and television programme Brexitcast, before becoming lead presenter of its successor, Newscast.
1980Gavin Heffernan, Canadian director and screenwriter[†]
Gavin Heffernan is a Canadian filmmaker/screenwriter/photographer.
1980Ricky Hendrick, American race car driver (died 2004)[†]
Joseph Riddick "Ricky" Hendrick IV was an American stock car racing driver and partial owner at Hendrick Motorsports, a NASCAR team that his father Rick Hendrick founded. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 2, 1980, and began racing in Go Karts at a young age, then the Legends Series at fifteen. He competed in both the Busch Series and Craftsman Truck Series before his death from an airplane accident on October 24, 2004. He was killed with nine other family members and friends during the accident.
1980Wairangi Koopu, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Dane Wairangi Manuera Koopu is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who played for the New Zealand Warriors and the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League. Koopu primarily played in the second-row, and as a centre. He is fluent in Te Reo Maori and often appeared on Māori Television.
1980Carlos Salcido, Mexican international footballer[†]
Carlos Arnoldo Salcido Flores is a Mexican former professional footballer. He started his career as a centre-back and played most of it as left-back, then converted to defensive midfielder and ended it as centre-back. He won the 2012 Olympic gold medal.
1980United States President Jimmy Carter signs the Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act.[†]
James Earl Carter Jr. was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter served from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia and from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate. He was the longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to reach the age of 100.
BUFFALO IT'S no joke, son, that Richard Kutas got into the sausage business because he was looking for companionship with fellow Poles.
A strike by 33,000 bus and subway workers that began before dawn yesterday halted New York City's mass transit system, delaying and inconveniencing millions of people who were forced to find other transportation.
Consumers can look forward to higher rates on their savings, more flexibility in investing their funds and greater convenience in conducting their financial business as a result of a banking bill signed Monday by President Carter.
WINSTON SALEM, N.C. Business is good, but Hubert C. Woodall cannot expand as quickly as he would like.
CEDAR CITY, Utah, April 1 The census workers were out trying to take their part of the national snapshot today and were finding it hard to get everyone to hold still and say cheese.
THEIR day begins each morning at 6:45 with Haydn on the intercoms. They end it, gener ally in a state of semiexhaustion, at 9:30 each evening. In between there is tight discipline, rehearsals, German lessons, a range of academic courses, music theory, soccer, choruses of liturgical music, formal candlelighted dinners and study hall.
On the day New York was supposed to come to a halt, it didn't.
The Chase Manhattan Bank, the nation's third-largest bank, increased its prime rate to a record 19 percent yesterday, a jump of half a percentage point.
MILWAUKEE, Wednesday, April 2 President Carter won a landslide victory in Wisconsin's Democratic Presidential primary yesterday while Ronald Reagan won by a narrower margin in the Republican contest.
The first day of the subway, bus and Long Island Rail Road strike appears to have hit the New York City economy where it is weakest in its manufacturing sector. It also appears to have hit the people whose pocketbooks can least afford it the city's working poor.
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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