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1980Jerry Collins, Samoan-New Zealand rugby player (died 2015)[†]
Jerry Collins was a professional rugby union player. Although he was born in Apia, Samoa, he grew up in New Zealand and played for the New Zealand national team, earning 48 caps. At club level, he played for the Hurricanes Super Rugby franchise in New Zealand, Toulon and Narbonne in the Rugby Pro D2, Ospreys in Wales, and Yamaha Júbilo in Japan. He played as a flanker and number eight, and was considered to be one of the hardest tacklers in the sport.
1980Richard Owens, American football player and coach[†]
Richard Owens is a former American football tight end. The Minnesota Vikings acquired him as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at Louisville.
1980Emme Rylan, American actress[†]
Emme Marcy Rylan is an American actress. From 2005 until 2013, she was credited as Marcy Rylan. She is recognized for her portrayals on the CBS soap operas Guiding Light as Lizzie Spaulding and The Young and the Restless as Abby Newman. From 2013 to 2020, she portrayed the role of Lulu Spencer on ABC's General Hospital.
1980Dan Stoenescu, Romanian career diplomat, political scientist, journalist, and essayist[†]
Dan Stoenescu is a Romanian career diplomat, political scientist and journalist. He was a minister in the technocratic government of Prime Minister Dacian Cioloș.
1980Elsie MacGill, Canadian-American engineer and author (born 1905)[†]
Elizabeth Muriel Gregory MacGill, known as the "Queen of the Hurricanes", was a Canadian engineer. She was chief aeronautical engineer at Canadian Car and Foundry (CC&F) in Fort William, Ontario during the Second World War. There she oversaw manufacturing of 1,451 Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force and the British Royal Air Force, then 835 Curtiss Helldivers for the U.S. Navy, which contributed greatly to the war effort and did much to make Canada a powerhouse of aircraft manufacturing. After her work at CC&F, she ran a successful aeronautical engineering consulting business. Between 1967 and 1970, she was a Commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada, which published a report in 1970.
1980Ronald Reagan is elected as the 40th President of the United States, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.[†]
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement. His presidency is known as the Reagan era.
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 3 (AP)--John B. Anderson said today that he believed his independent Presidential campaign would have an impact on American politics far beyond the election tomorrow.
LONDON -- A bargain-basement atmosphere prevails here as stores slash prices in a frantic attempt to stimulate pre-Christmas buying.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 -- At the State Savings and Loan Association, homeowners can use their Visa cards to draw on their homeowner's equity. Account executives, formerly known as savings and loan branch managers, make house calls. And the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, said to be doomed to extinction by inflation and erratic interest rates, is alive and well.
WHITE PLAINS, Nov. 3--The State Attorney General obtained an order today that temporarily restrains the Consolidated Edison Company from passing on to its customers $800,000 a day in higher costs resulting from the shutdown of its damaged Indian Point 2 nuclear plant.
Against a background of steadily rising short-term rates, the Treasury auctioned new six-month bills yesterday at an average of 13.269 percent. This compared with 12.28 percent a week earlier and represented the highest auction rate since mid-April.
"SEX," they said, and the world responded with anger, titillalion, relief and respect. That was 15 years ago.
Andrew Hyman may know more about what law offices look like, and have less experience working in them, than any lawyer in New York City.
Two New York State agencies said yesterday that they had uncovered evidence of possible fraud in the payments of more than $3 million for insurance fees by a municipal employees' union, Local 237 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, over a nine-year period.
A ROBOT spacecraft that visited Jupiter last year is approaching Saturn this week, seeing the spectacular ringed planet as it has never been seen before and focusing also on another world where, it is believed, hydrocarbons rain out of a dark smog in a methane sky onto a cold, powdery topography overlaying ice.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3--Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie expressed satisfaction today at what he called the progress being made toward resolution of the hostage crisis, but he cautioned that it may take considerable time before the 52 Americans are freed.
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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