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1980Alejandro Millán, Mexican singer-songwriter and keyboard player[†]
Alejandro Millán Montoya is the singer, keyboardist, and composer for the band Hello Madness. After winning a music production contest by CONARTE, he released the album "Light and Life After Dusk". He founded the progressive band Elfonía in 2002, releasing the albums Elfonía and This Sonic Landscape.
1980Adam Petty, American race car driver (died 2000)[†]
Adam Kyler Petty was an American professional stock car racing driver. A member of the Petty racing family, he was the fourth generation from the Petty family to drive in races in the highest division of NASCAR racing, mostly in what was then known as the NASCAR Busch Series. He was believed to be the first fourth-generation athlete in all of modern American professional sports.
1980Claudia Leitte, Brazilian singer-songwriter[†]
Cláudia Cristina Leite Inácio is a Brazilian singer and television personality. She rose to fame in late 2002 as the lead vocalist of the Axé music group Babado Novo. The group achieved a string of consecutive diamond-certified hit singles in Brazil and five golden and platinum albums from 2003 to 2007, as granted by the Brazilian Association of Record Producers (ABPD).
1980James Rolfe, American actor, director, and producer[†]
James D. Rolfe is an American YouTuber, filmmaker and actor. He is best known for creating and starring in the comedic retrogaming web series, Angry Video Game Nerd (2004–present). His spin-off projects include reviews of retro films, television series, and board games. He is considered a pioneer of internet gaming videos, and is noted for his widespread influence on YouTube content after the series premiered on the site in 2006.
1980Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer[†]
Jessica Ann Johnson is an American singer, actress, and fashion designer. After performing in church choirs as a child, Simpson signed with Columbia Records in 1997, aged seventeen. Her debut studio album, Sweet Kisses (1999), sold two million copies in the United States and was led by the Billboard Hot 100-top three single "I Wanna Love You Forever". Simpson adopted a more mature image for her second studio album, Irresistible (2001), and its title track peaked within the top 20 of the chart. The album received gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Simpson's third studio album, In This Skin (2003), sold three million copies in the United States.
1980Joseph Krumgold, American author and screenwriter (born 1908)[†]
Joseph Quincy Krumgold was an American writer of books and screenplays. He was the first person to win two annual Newbery Medals for the most distinguished new American children's book.
HARTFORD, July 9--Connecticut cannot prevent the major oil companies from passing through to customers in the state the $60 million cost of a new 2 percent tax on the companies' gross receipts, a Federal District Court judge ruled today.
DETROIT, July 9--The General Motors Corporation, despite its criticism of Government-mandated fuel-economy standards, announced today that it planned to market a line of 1985 model cars averaging 31 miles a gallon, three and a half better than the 27.5 miles a gallon required.
DETROIT, July 9--The platform committee of the Republican National Convention refused today to repeat the party's endorsement of the proposed Federal equal rights amendment. But it added a mollifying concession to the plank adopted yesterday by a subcommittee, saying that efforts to ban discrimination against women were "legitimate."
CHICAGO, July 9--Ben W. Heineman had his hands full recently in sorting out the top management problems at the First National Bank of Chicago, where he is chairman of the executive committee.
Mayor Koch's attack this week on a United State Supreme Court decision affirming Congress's right to establish racial quotas to combat discrimination directly contradicted a brief filed--with the Mayor's approval--by the city's Corporation Counsel in the same case last fall.
DETROIT, July 9--Some Republicans are telling one another, and anyone else who will listen, that the final stand their party takes on the proposed Federal equal rights amendment may decide the ...
WASHINGTON, July 9--Consumers cut their borrowing by a record $3.43 billion in May, the Federal Reserve Board reported today.
KABUL, Afghanistan, July 9--Moslem insurgents raided a Soviet military camp north of here early Sunday, reportedly causing heavy casualties, and a Soviet force of 400 tanks and armored personnel carriers, artillery, jet fighters and helicopter gunships was said to have struck back with three days of attacks in the region.
Harper's magazine, at the brink of extinction after 130 years of publication, was saved yesterday when two prominent foundations bought the literary and political monthly. They will operate it as a nonprofit enterprise.
EAST NASSAU, N.Y. "THIS place is a monument to garbage," said 28-year-old Donald G. Carpentier, mastermind, builder and "squire" of Eastfield Village, an authentic recreation of a late 18th-century American community 11 miles east of Albany.
GRANDVIEW, Idaho--Giant underground missile silos here once housed the deadly Titan 1 nuclear missiles. Today the same remote facility in the southern Idaho desert is the final resting place for thousands of tons of deadly chemicals.
NABLUS, Israeli-Occupied West Bank, July 9--Mayor Bassam al-Shaka of Nablus, who lost both legs when a bomb exploded in his car June 2, came home today from several weeks of medical treatment in Jordan to a tumultuous welcome from hundreds of young Palestinians who mobbed his ambulance and chanted themselves into a frenzy.
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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