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1980Wade Barrett, English boxer, wrestler, and actor[†]
Stuart Alexander Bennett is an English actor and former professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs under the ring name Wade Barrett as a color commentator on the SmackDown brand.
1980Aaron Staton, American actor[†]
Aaron Staton is an American actor. He played Ken Cosgrove on the AMC series Mad Men (2007–15) and Cole Phelps in the video game L.A. Noire (2011), for which he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Performer.
1980Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 3rd President of Pakistan (born 1917)[†]
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan was a Pakistani army officer who served as the third president of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971. He also served as the fifth commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army from 1966 to 1971.
Lisbon offers travelers a bonus: three legendary vacation spots within easy reach, just beyond the city limits. A 35minute train trip will take visitors to Estoril, Portugal's internationally known watering place, and to its neighbor, Cascais, a fishing village that has managed to retain its charm despite the loss of youthful innocence.
NEW HAVEN AFTER a three-month period in which the American automobile industry recorded losses of $1.5 billion, Connecticut car-part manufacturers are feeling the effects. The Armstrong Rubber Company's July 16 announcement that early next year it would close its oldest tire plant, in West Haven, eliminating 600 jobs, is a example of state problems radiating from Detroit.
Telephone workers began a strike in New York State, although their union announced in Washington that a national pact had been reached.
About 1,000 Democrats, who tomorrow night will participate at Madison Square Garden in a fight over an open convention, gathered at Yankee Stadium last night to watch part of what has become a wide-open pennant race between the Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles.
SHIPLEY, England A STRONG-WILLED heiress, an ailing company, a traditionbound milltown: It's a setting that is supposed to happen only in the movies. But lately, real-life Hollywood has been intruding on the largest manufacturer of wool textiles in Britain.
President Carter halted a perilous slide in his esteem among Democrats with the news conference last Monday on his brother Billy's links to Libya, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
ON a night in August 1958, I sat in the Press Gallery watching the Senate debate a collection of bills designed to punish the Supreme Court for recent decisions protecting citizens suspected of radical ideas.
DES MOINES IN his bitter prairie stories of 100 years ago, Hamlin Garland wrote of "main-traveled roads" with "a dull little town at one end and a home of toil at the other."
AS the heat and humidity wave went on with little let-up last week, commuters on Conrail reported continued over crowding of trains and numerous instances of poor or nonexistent airconditioning. Meanwhile, Conrail sought to assure the line's riders that it was engaged in a broad program to remedy the air-conditioning failures and that it was making headway.
LYTLE, Tex. FORTY paces from his doorstep, al most literally in his front yard, Larry Jackson checked the gauge on one of his three new oil wells and saw that it was about to finish pumping ...
Oberammergau, in the words of Michael Reilly, "has been a nightmare." Mr. Reilly is manager of Fellowship Travel of Phoenix, Ariz., which specializes in arranging religion-oriented tours for clients throughout the country.
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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