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1980Nyree Kindred, Welsh swimmer[†]
Nyree Elise Kindred MBE is a Welsh swimmer who has competed in the Paralympic Games on four occasions winning ten medals.
1980Tomas Scheckter, South African race car driver[†]
Tomas Scheckter is a South African former racing driver best known for his time in the IndyCar Series.
1980Autumn Reeser, American actress[†]
Autumn Reeser is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Taylor Townsend on the Fox series The O.C., Lizzie Grant on HBO's Entourage, Katie Andrews on ABC's No Ordinary Family, and Leslie Bellcamp on E!'s The Arrangement. She has appeared in the films The Girl Next Door (2004), So Undercover (2012), Sully (2016), and in over a dozen Hallmark Channel television films in leading roles.
1980Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress[†]
Kareena Kapoor Khan is an Indian actress. A prolific leading lady of Hindi cinema since 2000, she is noted for her roles in a range of film genres—from romantic comedies to crime dramas. Kapoor is the recipient of several awards, including six Filmfare Awards, and as of 2024, is one of Hindi cinema's highest-paid actresses.
BRIDGEPORT OFF to a slightly ragged start at the Carlson Gallery of the University of Bridgeport is "Connecticut Photogra phers," which is sponsored by Art Resources of Connecticut and runs through Oct. 5. When the show was visited, ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE was an extraordinarily handsome man, as James R. Mellow notes in this well-documented new biography. He was so happily married that his doting wife Sophia was ...
WHAT better time than the start of a new concert season to find out what New Jersey's music lovers are turning out to hear.
A 22-year-old Manhattan man, arrested Friday night in a robbery case, was charged in the Sept. 11 slayings of two doormen on West End Avenue. Page 39.
HONOLULU--"Arthur Murray doubled my money in a hurry," Cobey Black, a Honolulu writer, said the other day, paraphrasing a popular song of the 1940's, "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry."
There was something unusual about the director's preview of "Ordinary People": the director. Perhaps no one would have noticed him, in a back row seat in this Cincinnati theater, if ...
Enough was enough, the Boston Red Sox apparently decided yesterday at Yankee Stadium. Their 4-1 victory ended a streak of eight consecutive losses to the Yankees, and their four runs in the first two innings beat Gaylord Perry, a pitcher they had not defeated in more than three years.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20--China has asked the United States to allow it to buy modern police equipment, touching off a dispute within the Carter Administration over whether the sales should be permitted in view of China's human-rights record.
EAST HAMPTON PREYING on women left alone in their family vacation homes, a knife-wielding rapist who apologizes to his victims has been haunting the summer scene in this resort area for three years now.
PRETORIA, South Africa--The scene in the drafty hall here has become increasingly familiar to South Africans: Prime Minister P.W. Botha wagging his finger at right-wingers in the governing National Party, calling their racial intolerance a threat to the country's stability and their own future.
WASHINGTON--Almost as an afterthought was the word "development" added back in 1945 to the formal name of the then aborning World Bank.
WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVES of 1,000 or more companies will flock to Department of Energy offices this week to lodge applications in the biggest peacetime industrial effort America has ever made-- the creation of an industry that could produce 2 million barrels a day of synthetic fuels. That is the equivalent of a third of the oil and gas that the country now buys from abroad.
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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