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1980Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress[†]
Jordana Brewster is an American actress. She made her acting debut, three weeks after turning 15, in an episode of All My Children in 1995 and next took on the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, garnering a nomination for Outstanding Teen Performer at the 1997 Soap Opera Digest Award. Her first role in a feature film was in Robert Rodriguez's horror science fiction The Faculty (1998).
1980Marlon King, English footballer[†]
Marlon Francis King is a former professional footballer who played as a striker.
1980Anna Mucha, Polish actress and journalist[†]
Anna Maria Mucha is a Polish actress. She is best known to Western audiences as Danka Dresner in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List. In Poland, she is known for her regular role in the soap opera L for Love (2003–present).
1980Channing Tatum, American actor and producer[†]
Channing Matthew Tatum is an American actor and producer. He made his film debut in the drama Coach Carter (2005), and had his breakthrough with the sports comedy film She's the Man (2006) and the dance film Step Up (2006). He rose to prominence for playing Duke in the action films G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) and G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), the title role in the comedy-drama films Magic Mike (2012), Magic Mike XXL (2015) and Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023), and an undercover cop in the action-comedy films 21 Jump Street (2012) and 22 Jump Street (2014).
1980Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer (born 1893)[†]
Dame Esmerelda Cicely Courtneidge was an Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer. The daughter of the producer and playwright Robert Courtneidge, she was appearing in his productions in the West End by the age of 16, and was quickly promoted from minor to major roles in his Edwardian musical comedies.
WASHINGTON, April 25 The plan, in preparation since November, called for a swift strike to rescue the American hostages held in Teheran.
WASHINGTON, April 25 President Carter, in the aftermath of the failure of the military effort to rescue the hostages in Teheran, said today that the United States would persevere in "every possible avenue" for their release and would hold Iran's authorities responsible for their safety.
WASHINGTON, April 25 It was 4:57 P.M. in Washington yesterday when President Carter, speaking on the telephone from his hideaway study next to the Oval Office, directed Defense Secretary Harold Brown at the Pentagon to terminate the rescue mission in Iran.
LONDON, April 25 Saudi Arabia has quietly but substantially expanded its capacity to produce oil and is pressing to push it even higher by 1982, according to several oil industry sources here and in Saudi Arabia.
SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Canary Islands, April 25 A chartered British jetliner with 138 British vacationers and 8 crew members aboard crashed into a mountain in the Canary Islands today, minutes before it was scheduled to land. Airport officials said there was no sign of survivors.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, April 25 A magazine editor went on trial before a military tribunal today on charges of writing articles "to propagandize for the Chinese Communists" and to promote Taiwan's peaceful unification with China.
BUDAPEST, April 22 Janos, a Hungarian poet with a mane of black hair that tumbled upon the shoulders of his cable-knit sweater, was nursing his seventh glass of Bull's Blood wine when a dozen Soviet soldiers walked by.
WEST BERLIN, April 25 (Reuters) Pope John Paul II has named Bishop Joachim Meisner of Erfurt as Bishop of Berlin, a nomination that will almost certainly make him the new head of East Germany's 1.2 million Roman Catholics, the West Berlin Catholic Church office said today. Bishop Meisner, 46 years old, will be installed May 17.
PARIS, April 25 Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union returned to Moscow today after talks with the French Government in which he strengthened threats against Pakistan and showed no sign of willingness to soften positions on other major issues.
MONROVIA, Liberia, April 25 (AP) Liberia's revolutionary Government declared martial law today and suspended the 133-year-old Constitution "until further notice."
BOGOTA, Colombia, April 25 (UPI) The Government conducted another round of negotiations today with leftist guerrillas holding the Dominican Republic's Embassy, and there were indications the 59-day siege was nearing an end.
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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