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1980Sayuri Osuga, Japanese speed skater and cyclist[†]
Sayuri Osuga is a Japanese speed skater and cyclist. She is one of the few athletes who started both in the Winter Games 2002 and 2006 and in the 2004 Summer Games. Until 2006, she was a member of the professional Sankyoseiki speedskating team. She placed first and third in the Speedskating World Cup. She holds the Japanese records in the 500 m speed skating and the 500 m time trial event. From 2006 to 2011, she was sponsored by the construction company Daiwa House Industries Co. Ltd. She retired in 2011.
1980Tanel Padar, Estonian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Tanel Padar is an Estonian singer and songwriter. He is best known internationally for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. Padar became famous by winning the Kaks takti ette, a biennial televised competition for young Estonian singers, in 1999.
1980Henriett Seth F., Hungarian autistic savant artist and author[†]
Henriett Seth F., also known as Seth F. Henriett, is a Hungarian autistic savant, poet, writer, musician, and artist.
1980Judy LaMarsh, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1924)[†]
Julia Verlyn LaMarsh was a Canadian politician, lawyer, author and broadcaster. In 1963, she became the second woman to serve as a federal Cabinet minister. Under Prime Minister Lester Pearson's minority governments of the middle and late 1960s, she helped push through the legislation that created the Canada Pension Plan and Medicare. As Secretary of State, she was in charge of Canada's Centennial celebrations in 1967. After leaving politics in 1968, she wrote three books, and had her own radio show on CBC Radio. She was stricken with pancreatic cancer in 1979 and was given the Order of Canada at her hospital bed. She died a few days short of the 20th anniversary of her first political election victory, in 1980.
1980John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)[†]
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and mathematician. He was co-awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977, for his contributions to the understanding of the behavior of electronic magnetism in solids.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 26--Along Dubai Creek they were loading tea for Iran today. Boxes and boxes of tea. There were also sacks of flour, cans of cooking oil, mounds of sugar, washing machines, televisions, stereos and, perhaps most significant of all, spare parts for cars.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 26--Harvard University is considering a plan to take a leading role in founding a genetic engineering company. This would enable the university to profit directly from commercial development of recombinant DNA research, commonly known as gene splicing.
TEHERAN, Iran, Monday, Oct. 27-- The Iranian Parliament went into private session today to resume a debate that was adjourned yesterday on terms for the release of the American hostages, a parliamentary spokesman said.
Alberto Salazar, a 22-year-old senior at the University of Oregon, survived chilly, blustery weather and 14,011 challengers from 49 countries to win the New York City Marathon yesterday.
As the campaign heads into its final week, the leaders of major corporations, who once kept their distance from Ronald Reagan, appear to be moving into the Republican candidate's camp.
CLEVELAND Oct. 26--Brian Sipe, the Browns' quarterback, felt as if he were climbing a mountain interminably high today, but suspected all the time that finally he would get to the summit.
CAIRO, Oct. 26--President Yitzhak Navon of Israel arrived here today on an official visit, the first by an Israeli head of state to an Arab country.
KRAKOW, Mo., Oct. 26--The telephone has become an instrument of torture for the family of Sgt. Rodney V. Sickmann, a marine who has been held hostage in Iran for 357 days. Members of the family constantly stand by the phone, ...
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Oct. 26 --Nearly 10,000 ticket-holders passed up the opportunity to watch the Giants lose to the Bronco Denvers, 14-9, today. And of the 67,598 who bothered to go to Giants Stadium, hardly any stayed for the finish.
For the third quarter of 1980, J.P. Morgan Company again led the nation's 15 largest bank holding companies in terms of basic profitability.
WHEN Bernie Parent retired as a hockey star a year and a half ago, a wave of "re sentment and guilt" overwhelmed him. He said that he had lost the major focus of his life, and he discovered that the values of a professional athlete did not sustain him away from the locker room.
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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