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1980Shawn Riggans, American baseball player[†]
Shawn Willis Riggans is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 2006 to 2009 for the Tampa Bay Rays.
1980Toni Vilander, Finnish race car driver[†]
Toni Markus Vilander is a Finnish professional racing driver who currently drives for the Risi Competizione Ferrari team in various categories of sports car racing.
1980David Wachs, American actor and producer[†]
David Wachs is an American actor and musician. He was born and raised in Palm Desert, California to parents who were both musicians. He has appeared in several TV shows, including ER, Living with Fran, and Still Standing, as well as in films such as Hotel California (2008), and The Last Hurrah (2009), among others.
1980Scott Waldrom, New Zealand rugby player[†]
Scott Waldrom is a New Zealand former rugby union player. When Waldroms playing career finished in 2012 due to injury he was playing for the Waikato Chiefs in Super Rugby and Taranaki in the ITM Cup. He played in the openside flanker position.
1980Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1938)[†]
Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Soviet singer-songwriter, poet, and actor who had an immense and enduring effect on Soviet culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often-humorous street jargon. He was also a prominent stage- and screen-actor. Though the official Soviet cultural establishment largely ignored his work, he was remarkably popular during his lifetime and has exerted significant influence on many of Russia's musicians and actors.
Governor Carey has issued a directive prohibiting New York State officials from conducting state business, such as luncheon meetings, ae private clubs that exclude women from full membership.
The nude and bound body of a violinist who disappeared during an intermission of a performance by the Berlin Ballet Wednesday night was found yesterday morning in a ventilation shaft of the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
DETROIT, July 24 The General Motors Corporation, caught in one of the most trying periods in American automobile history, reported today that it had a record $412 million loss for the second quarter ended June 30, compared with a record profit of $1.18 billion in the corresponding period of 1979.
WASHINGTON, July 24 President Carter's wife, Rosalynn, was the first to suggest that Billy Carter use his ties with Libya to help try to free the American hostages in Iran, and she personally ...
Underscoring the dramatic decline in interest rates since April, two major banks lowered their prime lending rates yesterday to 10 percent, onequarter percentage point less than the rate the banks themselves must pay to obtain loans from the Federal Reserve System.
A wide-ranging investigation into the circumstances surrounding a Harlem fire last month in which two firemen were killed was ordered yesterday by Mayor Koch following reports that high-ranking fire officials had directed firemen not to cooperate with an inquiry by the department's inspector general.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., July 24 Arab hopes of isolating Israel and the United States at an emergency session of the General Assembly appeared doomed here today when Western Europe warned that it would not support any resolution that did not recognize Israel's right to exist.
WASHINGTON, July 24 China and the United States have reached an agreement governing increased shipments of Chinese textiles and apparel products to the United States for the period ending Dec. 31, 1982, the United States special trade representative, Reubin O. Askew, announced today.
THE International Association of Art Critics doesn't give out medals. But a medal should be struck nonetheless to mark the humane consideration of the Metropolitan Museum, which in times of record ...
DALLAS, July 24 Harding Lawrence, chairman of Braniff Airways, was waxing expansive at last year's annual meeting as he outlined the carrier's bold growth plans. "If we are successful in all our efforts, then we will be selling all the world on Braniff and selling Braniff to all the world," he declared.
A day after Governor Carey sharply criticized Mayor Koch's plan, the Mayor yesterday retreated somewhat from his position calling for increases of up to $600 million in city real-estate, sales and income taxes to close next year's projected $1.2 billion budget gap.
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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