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1980Blaž Emeršič, Slovenian ice hockey player[†]
Blaž Emeršič is a Slovenian ice hockey player currently playing for Milton Keynes Lightning of the English Premier Ice Hockey League.
1980Casey FitzSimmons, American football player[†]
Casey FitzSimmons is an American former professional football tight end who played for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL).
1980Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer[†]
Elvis Zark Hammond is a Ghanaian retired footballer who last played for Kingstonian as a striker.
1980Tim Maurer, American singer-songwriter[†]
Suburban Legends are an American ska punk band that formed in Huntington Beach, California, in 1998 and later based themselves in nearby Santa Ana. After building a fanbase in the Orange County ska scene through their numerous regular performances at the Disneyland Resort, a series of lineup changes in 2005 introduced elements of funk and disco into the group's style.
1980Julie Pomagalski, French snowboarder (died 2021)[†]
Julie Pomagalski was a French snowboarder.
1980The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.[†]
The 1980 El Asnam earthquake occurred on October 10 at 13:25:23 local time with a moment magnitude of 7.1 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). The shock occurred in the Algerian town of El Asnam. The shocks were felt over 550 km (340 mi) away, with the initial earthquake lasting 35 seconds. It was the largest earthquake in Algeria, and was followed three hours later by a magnitude 6.2 aftershock. The earthquake created about 42 km (26 mi) of surface rupture and had a vertical slip of up to 4.2 m (14 ft). No foreshocks were recorded. The earthquake was found to have occurred very close to the epicenter of the 1954 Chlef earthquake using joint epicenter determination techniques. It occurred at a previously unknown reverse fault.
1980The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.[†]
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is a Salvadoran political party and former guerrilla rebel group.
A GREAT museum does not stay great by booking ready-made "attractions," the way the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington books the Vienna State Opera. It stays great by having inspired ideas for exhibitions that it can organize for itself and carry through to a happy conclusion.
The Chrysler Corporation put its much-ballyhooed "K" cars on sale last week, and while it is still too early to gauge the public's response to the new line of compacts it is not too early to talk about the cars themselves.
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Oct. 9--Iran said today that Iraqi forces had begun using surface-to-surface missiles in their attacks on Iranian cities, inflicting heavy casualties among civilians. The Iranians said at least 170 had died in two towns on the central front.
WINSTON SALEM, N.C., Oct. 9-- President Carter, acknowledging that he might have been "overly enthusiastic" in his recent attacks on Ronald Reagan, repeated the criticism in less negative language today in a three-state campaign swing through the South.
Jean Yankelwicz looked up at the crumbling facade of the abandoned tenement in Brooklyn's Greenpoint section yesterday. Its tin-covered windows were hidden behind newly affixed decals, some depicting curtains and shades, others sporting images of shutters and flowerpots.
The man in the hospital bed had been shot four times. Four men had smashed in the door to his apartment four days earlier, a Sunday, and fired their guns at him as he leaped through his third-story bedroom window.
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 9--Czeslaw Milosz, a Polish emigre poet and novelist who is now an American citizen, was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature today.
ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 9--Ronald Reagan defended his environmental record today in the aftermath of statements earlier in the week that indicated his apparent readiness to relax environmental standards in the hope of reviving industrial production.
Chris-Craft Industries, a leading manufacturer of pleasure boats for many years, has announced that it will divest itself of its boat division.
The Board of Governors of the American Stock Exchange voted unanimously yesterday to withdraw plans to build a new headquarters with state financial help at Battery Park City.
Korvettes Inc., the pioneering discount chain that fell into difficult times, will close all its remaining retail stores as soon as it sells its store leases, the company's chairman, Joseph A. Ris, disclosed yesterday.
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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