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In 1980, the world population was approximately 4,447,606,236 people[†]
1980Emre Belözoğlu, Turkish footballer[†]
Emre Belözoğlu, simply known as Emre, is a Turkish football manager and former professional player who is currently serving as the head coach of Antalyaspor.
1980Sara Carrigan, Australian cyclist[†]
Sara Carrigan is a professional cyclist from Australia, who commenced her cycling career in 1996 at the age of fifteen and is currently a member of the Belgian Lotto–Belisol Ladiesteam.
1980Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer[†]
Gabriel Alejandro Milito is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a centre-back. He is the current head coach of Liga MX club Guadalajara.
1980Javad Nekounam, Iranian footballer[†]
Javad Nekounam is an Iranian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He holds the record for the most appearances for the Iranian national team with 149 caps.
1980J. D. Pardo, American actor[†]
Jorge Daniel Pardo is an American actor. He is best known for playing the lead role of Ezekiel "EZ" Reyes in the television series Mayans M.C. (2018–2023), as well as a young Jack Toretto in F9 (2021).
1980Mark Prior, American baseball player[†]
Mark William Prior is an American former professional baseball pitcher and current coach. A onetime top prospect of the Chicago Cubs, he pitched for the team from 2002 to 2006 in a career that was marred by injuries. In his prime, his repertoire of pitches included a mid-90s mph fastball, a curveball, and a changeup. He is currently the pitching coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Faced with an increased demand for on-campus housing, university officials and housing administrators in the New York metropolitan region are leasing off-campus space, carving extra rooms out of lounges and other campus buildings and increasing the number of students in rooms.
GREENWICH N a 29-acre mill property that spans the Byram River in Greenwich, a new sort of suburban development is taking shape. It may well pave the way for the conversion of dozens of other 19th-century mills
Three years after Merrill Lynch decided to go into the residential real-estate brokerage business it has acquired five major agencies with a sales staff of almost 1,800 people. Smaller agencies are feeling the impact of its competition.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. IT is a hot summer's day in this Washington suburb, a sleepy, Southern town saturated in the political heroes of the past. A descendant of Washington's political system-a local member of the Virginia Senate--is down to shirtsleeves in the 90-plus heat, wielding a soggy handkerchief as he lectures his audience. The listeners are white, young and married --...
WHEN a youngster takes up Irish dancing, the regimen usually becomes a way of life for the whole family. Take Kathleen and Brian Lyons of
WARSAW, Sept. 6--Stanislaw Kania, Poland's new leader, said today that the Communist Party would honor the agreements it made last week with striking workers but he also warned "antisocialist elements" against seeking to turn the country's troubles "to their own purposes."
FREEPORT IT has been nearly two years since the Freeport Mall, a $1.7 million Community Development pedestrian plaza project on Main Street, was dedicated in an atmosphere of hope and cautious optimism. Although village officials and many of the mall's merchants hold...
HEMPSTEAD VILLAGE "WE'RE coming back," heralded the proud statements of Hempstead Village authorities last winter. But now the late-summer sun reflects off the still-empty storefronts and the for-rent signs in the shop windows, as if to challenge the...
Brooklyn Union Gas Company customers on budget plans that divide their heating bills evenly over a 12month period opened those bills last month to an unpleasant surprise
CASTLE ROCK, Wash., Sept. 6--Once someone lived in a small house on this point of land, shaded by old firs, lulled by the trill of the Toutle River, bewitched by the sweep of the river's curve past the stand of forest on the flats on the other side.
TRENTON SCHOOL superintendents in urban districts see the classification of public schools by the state's Department of Educa tion as an opportunity to focus greater attention on those schools in dealing with the minimum-basic-skills problem. The department ratings showed
YONKERS NEW Federal laws that will radically change the method by which Westchester County disposes of liquid waste have resulted in a three-way legal battle among the county, Yorkers residents and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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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