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1980Vanessa Carlton, American singer-songwriter[†]
Vanessa Lee Carlton is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her debut album, Be Not Nobody (2002), was released by A&M Records and peaked at number five on the Billboard 200. It spawned the hit song "A Thousand Miles", which spent 41 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned three Grammy nominations, and the singles "Ordinary Day" and "Pretty Baby". Her next album, Harmonium (2004), debuted at number 33 on the Billboard 200. After A&M pressured Carlton and influenced Harmonium, she departed the label in 2005.
1980Bob Hardy, English bass player[†]
Robert Byron Hardy is an English musician and the bassist in the band Franz Ferdinand.
1980Emerson Ramos Borges, Brazilian footballer[†]
Emerson Ramos Borges, known as just Emerson, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a defender for Italian Promozione Sardinia club Nuorese.
1980Piet Rooijakkers, Dutch cyclist[†]
Piet Rooijakkers is a road bicycle racer from the Netherlands. He retired after the 2010 season after his previous team Skil–Shimano did not offer him a contract extension.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15--Prices that retailers pay for finished goods rose by 1.7 percent in July, the largest monthly increase in nearly six years, the Labor Department reported today.
CAIRO, Aug. 15--President Anwar elSadat proposed to Prime Minister Menachem Begin today a meeting with the United States after the American elec tions in November to overcome the differences that have produced a breakdown in negotiations on Palestinian autonomy.
A videotape depicting what the prosecutor called a bungled attempt by the Mayor of Camden, N.J., and a lawyer from Philadelphia to dupe supposed representatives of Arab sheiks--actually Federal undercover agents--was shown yesterday, amid laughter in the court-room, ...
On his first day as the Democratic nominee for a second four-year term, President Carter continued his assault on the Republicans as a party that would hinder the causes of civil rights and economic opportunity while enhancing the risks of war.
WARSAW, Aug. 15--Bus drivers in the city of Gdansk today joined a walkout by shipyard workers, raising the number of strikers in the Baltic port to more than 50,000 and bringing municipal transportation there to a halt. Edward Gierek, the Polish leader, returned from the Soviet Union to deal with the growing unrest.
SEOUL, South Korea, Saturday, Aug. 16--President Choi Kyu Hah resigned today, paving the way for Gen. Chon Too Hwan, the army strongman, to replace him, probably next week.
An expedition probing the North Atlantic with sonar may have located the hulk of the Titanic, the opulent and "unsinkable" luxury liner that hit an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage 68 years ago, leaders of the search reported yesterday.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy's cool and awkward encounter with President Carter on the podium at Madison Square Garden Thursday night took the gloss off the finale of the Democratic National Convention and left dangling questions about how vigorously Kennedy Democrats will push the Carter cause this fall after their champion looked so reluctant.
CARTER PURI, India, Aug. 12--Here, in the only part of the planet named for James Earl Carter Jr., the villagers are hoping for the re-election of the Presi dent, whom they credit with bringing them good luck, a new road, a school and a pond for breeding fish.
NEW DELHI, Aug. 15--Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, speaking on the 33d an niversary of India's independence, warned today that "violence and anarchy and indiscipline" were spreading throughout the country.
PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic--The northwestern region of the Dominican Republic is known for its beautiful and joyful women, for its merengues and its baseball players, for its cactuses and its goats.
SAN SALVADOR, Aug. 15 (AP)-- Guerrillas burned four city buses, killed a bus driver and fought gun battles with army and police patrols today, but Salvadorans largely continued to ignore a nationwide strike called by Marxists and their allies.
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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