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1980Mikko Hirvonen, Finnish race car driver[†]
Mikko Hirvonen is a Finnish former rally driver, and a current Rally-Raid driver, who drove in the World Rally Championship. He placed third in the drivers' championship and helped Ford to the manufacturers' title in both 2006 and 2007. In 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012 he finished runner-up to Sébastien Loeb. Hirvonen's co-driver was Jarmo Lehtinen from the 2003 season until his retirement in 2014, Lehtinen had replaced Miikka Anttila who co-drove with Hirvonen in the 2002 season.
1980Mils Muliaina, New Zealand rugby player[†]
Junior Malili "Mils" Muliaina is a former professional rugby union player who most recently played for San Francisco Rush in the US PRO Rugby competition. He played primarily as a fullback, though he has also played as a centre and on the wing.
1980Pascual Jordan, German physicist, author, and academic (born 1902)[†]
Ernst Pascual Jordan was a German theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. He contributed much to the mathematical form of matrix mechanics, and developed canonical anticommutation relations for fermions. He introduced Jordan algebras in an effort to formalize quantum field theory; the algebras have since found numerous applications within mathematics.
1980Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (born 1924)[†]
Mohammed Rafi was an Indian playback singer. He is considered to have been one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Rafi was notable for his versatility and range of voice; his songs varied from fast peppy numbers to patriotic songs, sad numbers to highly romantic songs, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans to classical songs. He was known for his ability to mould his voice to the persona and style of the actor lip-syncing the song on screen in the movie. He received six Filmfare Awards and one National Film Award. In 1967, he was honored with the Padma Shri award by the Government of India. In 2001, Rafi was honoured with the "Best Singer of the Millennium" title by Hero Honda and Stardust magazine. In 2013, Rafi was voted for the Greatest Voice in Hindi Cinema in the CNN-IBN's poll.
KEZIA Keeble and Paul Cavaco, a husband-andwife fashion team, have sophisticated tastes and a hectic life. But, with their 3-year-old daughter, Cayli, they live and work in a typical two-bedroom rental apartment on the West Side.
HOUSTON, July 30--After 50 years of operation as an independent oil and gas production company, the Superior Oil Company found itself on the decline in the early 1970's: Production was decreasing, reserves were slipping and exploration was given less importance under a diversification program.
SAN DIEGO--Bumper stickers along the waterfront here proclaim tuna fishermen "the latest endangered species." And from the look of the docks lined with idle tuna boats, it may soon be true.
One-quarter of the American-flag Great Lakes cargo vessels called "lakers" are idle and more than 8,000 sailors and longshoremen are unemployed, mainly because of the slump in the steel and auto industries.
Signs of an improving economy jolted the fixed-income securities market yesterday, sending prices lower and yields higher. Some long-term Government bonds dropped 1 points, or $15 for each $1,000 bond.
WASHINGTON, July 30--Justice Department officials said today that they were opening another investigation of Billy Carter after obtaining new evidence suggesting that the President's brother had not told Federal agents the truth about the payments he had received from Libya.
WASHINGTON, July 30--To its proponents it is known as the "faithful delegate" rule, to its opponents as the "bind and yank" rule. By either label, on its acceptance or rejection rides the last hope that Senator Edward M. Kennedy, or anyone else, has of snatching the Democratic Presidential nomination from Jimmy Carter.
WASHINGTON, July 30--President Carter, in a statement issued by the White House today, acknowledged discussing with his brother classified State Department cables concerning Billy Carter's trip to Libya in September 1978.
CBS Inc. has broken with its counterparts in the television industry by recommending to the Federal Communications Commission that it adopt a French-developed system as a national standard for a broadcast teletext system.
MOSCOW, July 30--Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz of Poland silenced a partisan Soviet crowd, which had whistled and jeered to distract him, by setting a world record of 18 feet 11 inches in the pole vault tonight en route to an Olympic gold medal.
WASHINGTON, July 30--The Senate ethics committee voted unanimously today to clear Senator Howard W. Cannon, Democrat of Nevada, of implications that he acted unethically in financial dealings in his home state.
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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