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1980Joel Stroetzel, American guitarist[†]
Joel Michael Stroetzel is an American musician, best known as the rhythm guitarist from the Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage.
1980Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (born 1925)[†]
Peter Sellers was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show. Sellers featured on a number of hit comic songs, and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series.
1980The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.[†]
The Quietly Confident Quartet was the self-given name of the Australian men's 4 × 100 metres medley relay swimming team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The United States boycotted the Moscow Olympics in protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and, through the 2016 Olympics, the Australian victory remains the only occasion the United States has not won the event at Olympic level since its inception in 1960. The quartet consisted of backstroker Mark Kerry, breaststroker Peter Evans, butterflyer Mark Tonelli, and freestyler Neil Brooks. The team was nominally led by its oldest member Tonelli, who was 23 and was also a spokesperson for the Australian athletes' campaign for their right to compete at the Olympics against the wishes of the Fraser government. The team was seen as an unlikely prospect to win; all four of the swimmers had clashed with swimming authorities over disciplinary issues and three experienced suspension or expulsion from the Australian team during their careers.
William Behrle 3d, left, and Michael Benson placing contaminated equipment in bags yesterday after leaving the reactor containment building at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Middletown, Pa.
Peter Sellers, the comedian whose zany film roles ranged from a duchess to a wild nuclear expert, died early this morning in Middlesex Hospital in London, a day after he was striken with a massive heart attack. He was 54 years old and had suffered several heart attacks in recent years.
OW I'm really paranoid," said the owner of a cooperative apartment in a Brooklyn brownstone after two detectives from the Crime Prevention Section of the New York City Police Department got through doing a security check on her home.
Faced with preliminary census figures suggesting the possibility of a significant population decline in New York City since 1970, city officials yesterday began a block-by-block review of utility, housing and other records in an effort to show that thousands of New Yorkers had not yet been counted.
NEW DELHI, July 23 The Government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced today a major role for free enterprise in the Indian economy and a "restructuring" of money-losing stateowned industries to bring in efficient management.
WASHINGTON, July 23 Time is running out for international action to prevent a starving, overcrowded, polluted, resource-poor world, according to a report for President Carter prepared by the State Department and Council on Environmental Quality.
The deal that Billy Carter tried to arrange between the Charter Company and the Libyan National Oil Company has focused attention on the indirect ways that oil companies, particularly such small oil concerns as Charter, obtain crude for their refineries.
THOSE lines of T.S. Eliot haunt me. They run through my mind every day now when I am walking home from work. "Into the rose-garden."
DETROIT, July 23 New-car sales of the Big Three domestic auto makers, on a daily selling basis, fell 27.7 percent in mid-July from a year before, the manufacturers reported today.
DETROIT, July 23 The American automobile manufacturers are preparing for this fall's new model introduction with some new, fuel-efficient import fighters that they hope will help them recapture part of the 25 percent of the market now lost to foreign companies.
The City Investing Company, owner of the Home Insurance Company and other valuable properties, announced yesterday that its board had turned down an offer from Tamco Enterprises Inc, a privately held real estate concern, to buy City Investing's assets for a price equal to $32.50 for each share of City Investing common stock.
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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